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)
Keep in […]
Tags: Azure, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Microsoft, PDC2008, Visual Studio
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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 […]
Tags: Azure, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Microsoft, PDC2008, Silverlight, Visual Studio
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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 […]
Tags: Ajax, Ajaxian, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almer, Google, Mozilla, tools
Filed under: Programming, Web |
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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.
Tags: Microsoft, Silverlight
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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 […]
Tags: menu, Visual Studio, VSCT, VSIP
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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 […]
Tags: build, concurrent, make, optimization, parallel, windows
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