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Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery.  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free).  This is now available to download and use. Steps to Enable jQuery ...

After much pain, agony, cussing, and fussing, I have shipped off the first draft of an eBook on ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 to Wiley/Wrox.  In a moment of weakness foolishness back in September, I told Jim Minatel at Wiley that I would write an eBook on the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.  I wasn't able to start until ...

The Microsoft Small Business Solutions team is at it again. There will be several events in the Mid-Atlantic region through March of 2009 that will have some content. You can find out more by visiting the official website at http://sbstechnologymakeover.com. Kudos to Michael Murphy and the rest of the SBS team for getting this together.

For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Here’s what happened: David Solivan – David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was to show the various options we have and to explain when one option may be better than another by stepping through the design process. There’s a URL ...

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable them to automatically deploy across ...

 MSDN Developer Conference – Great new perks just announced Cool Giveaways The MSDN Developer Conference will not only WOW you with the coolest sessions from the PDC but you will also be in the running to win one of 3 Lego NXT Robotics Kits and the WROX Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio book. Other giveaways include a Gamer Backpack ...

Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful ...

  So, you couldn’t make PDC this year? Watching recorded sessions not quite doing it for you? Missing the interaction with Microsoft folks and industry experts? Well, do we have a fantastic event for you! Come to the Atlanta, GA MSDN Developer Conference on December 16th at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. Right here in your ...

Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This month’s speaker,  Sean Hopen (New Toronto Group), will give a tour of the development process with Silverlight and an overview of developing web parts for use in SharePoint. There will be a discussion of the benefits of using Silverlight in ...

On December 10th, 2008 (11-5) I'm speaking at an MSDN event in Phoenix. I'm excited to have an hour to talk about ASP.NET 4.0 and the new Silverlight Toolkit. Registration is required, because there is a fixed number of seats. Registration link. http://is.gd/6HJW   And Here is an overview of the day ... What to expect with C# 4.0 (Joe ...