September 2008 Entries
Richmond, VA Code Camp 2008.2 will be held this Saturday (October 4th, 2008). For those of you that haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for? Kevin Hazzard has done a great job organizing the event and there is an excellent speaker roster. Be sure to look for me at the event, I’ve got the only Silverlight presentation slot ;) Register Here Speaker List
Silverlight 2 RC0 has just been released and, as usual, Scott Guthrie has punctuated the release with another informative blog post.
Summarizing Scott's post, here are a few of the things to expect from RC0:
Bug Fixes
ComboBox
PasswordBox
ProgressBar
MessageBox.Show()
New Control Skins (Much Nicer!)
General Improvements various Subsystems
Of course, you can also download a more comprehensive list of breaking changes.
It's also worth noting that this release is staggered in such a way that only the...
Today, Shawn Burke announced on his blog that Microsoft had recently organized a new controls team that will focus their efforts on developing controls for use in Silverlight and WPF. The team has an impressive roster and there is no doubt that we will see some great things from this group! After the release of Silverlight 2 - Beta 2, I was wondering how Microsoft would be able to continue to ship the source code for the controls since most of them have been integrated into the core product. But with this announcement, it is evident that this organization will...
So it has been a few weeks since I introduced Silverlight Contrib. So I thought I would post a quick update about the status so far. I've received a lot of positive feedback and volunteer offers (more on that below), which has been great! I've been working hard on the next release, here is what is planned for the next release: Improvements on mouse-capturing on the Color Picker Control. Color Picker Control - Adding the ability to supply a value for the selected color and have then control respond accordingly....
Brian Hitney, Microsoft DE for the Carolinas, will be speaking at the Pee Dee Area .NET User Group tonight. Brian will be presenting the new ASP.NET MVC framework. Florence is Brian's first stop on his South Carolina tour where he will visit all of the SC .NET User Groups. I hope to see you there! September 9th, 2008 - Brian Hitney Brian Hitney will give us an introduction to ASP.NET MVC and how this affects the way you write ASP.NET applications. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative to the commonplace Web Forms framework. ...