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Getting Started with Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio

October 29, 2008

In looking back at yesterday’s post on Windows Azure and Live Framework Tools I suddenly realized I didn’t provide any links to content about the VS tools I work on!  Let’s see if we can remedy that…
Live Framework SDK and Tools  (dev.live.com)
Getting Started using the Live Framework Tools (msdn.microsoft.com)
Cloud Computing Tools Technology Page (msdn.microsoft.com)
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Visual Studio Tools for Windows Azure and Live Framework

October 28, 2008

Yesterday at PDC Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure, a new platform for global scale distributed computing services, often called “cloud computing”. Today Microsoft rolled out tools for creating apps that use Live Services, access the same Mesh Objects you see in Live Mesh, or execute in the Windows Azure cloud.  Mesh-enabled web applications can even update themselves thanks to Feedsync-enabled Live Services […]

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Ajaxian Leaves Google to Create Developer Tools Group at Mozilla

October 14, 2008

Dion Almer of Ajaxian fame has announced he is leaving Google to head up a new developer tools group at Mozilla with longtime friend and Ajaxian cofounder Ben Galbraith.  The two are quite the dynamic duo in the web development sphere and should bring a lot of energy and fresh ideas to the table in […]

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Silverlight 2.0 Released!

October 14, 2008

The second major version of Microsoft’s Silverlight web platform, featuring new UI controls and a lot more, has been released.  Read all about it in Scott Guthrie’s post.

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Menu Item Placement with Visual Studio .VSCT Groups and Priorities

October 8, 2008

Here’s a quick note for a solution I discovered the hard way that isn’t covered well in the MSDN documentation:  If you are writing a Visual Studio extension and adding a menu item to an existing menu (such as the project context menu) using a .vsct (Visual Studio XML Command Table) file, the priority field of […]

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Parallel Make: Using Build Stages to Prevent Pileups

October 6, 2008

A reader responded to my March article on Parallel Make in Win32 with a question:
I’m trying to get the *.idl files to compile while using the -j flag. I’m having a problem when you run make -j and the idl compiler compiles the *.idl files (that works just fine), but right after that, it tries […]

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