Nuno Filipe Godinho
All about WebDevelopment (ASP.NET & Silverlight)
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Microsoft Web Platform
With the purpose of helping the Web developers Microsoft launched a new site called, Microsoft Web Platform that contains several elements with the goal of simplifying the life of those developers, with some of the contents being:
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ASP.NET MVC Beta version Released
Following the ASP.NET development this new MVC Framework is important because in some cases will be the right choice for the development process. The first releases had problems regarding AJAX integration and also poor set of controls, when compared to the ASP.NET Web Forms version, but with this version a lot has changed, and things like:
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Silverlight 2.0 RTM
Finally the RTM version of Silverlight 2.0 is already available, as Scott Guthrie wrote on his subject related post. This is a very interesting news and that will allow all that are using and believe in this Microsoft technology can now improve their productivity in developing rich solutions.
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First Code Parts of Prism 2.0
As I previously posted, Prism 2.0 is shaping up and some of the new Code Parts are already available on CodePlex. Of course this is only a small part but it brings good news like:
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Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate made Available
One more step towards the RTM version of Silverlight 2.0 was made today with the announcement of the Release Candidate by Scott Guthrie. With this version we can expect several changes, where the major part are not critical since there was already a Go-Live licence for the Beta 2 version, but some of them will impact in important points of the technology. In order to check what has to be changed from one version to another, you can check this blog post by Mike Snow and this document that explains the changes. This will be important in order to start updating the solutions and preparing it for the final version.
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Virtual Earth version 6.2 Release
There’s already online the new 6.2 release of the Virtual Earth that has some awesome new features that will be briefly described here:
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Live WebCast: Discovering Silverlight 2.0 – Developing RIA Solutions – Advanced Topics (Part 2 of 5)
As I wrote in the previous post this post will be part of a Portuguese WebCasts Cycle and in this case the topic is:
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Live WebCast: Discovering Silverlight 2.0 – Developing RIA Solutions (Part 1 of 5)
As I wrote in the previous post this post will be part of a Portuguese WebCasts Cycle and in this case the topic is:
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Live WebCast: Discovering Silverlight 2.0
During this week it’s taking place a WebCast Cycle in Portuguese that is part of the WebCasts4Share initiative delivered by Microsoft Portugal and that’s related with the topic “Silverlight 2.0”, and across this cycle we will talk about the following topics:
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Photosynth and Virtual Earth
The PhotoSynth project is getting a lot more interesting and a consumer versions is already available and this will allow us to place our own images in a way that see can “travel to places as if we were there” and get a 360º view that is generated with the photos submitted by the users. This seems to me a very good idea and I thought that I would like to see this integrated with Virtual Earth and that’s what I did and made available here (The pins mark the places where photosynth information exists, and by placing the mouse on top of them will allow you to see the photosynth elements) in order to get to know what we can expect in a while. Of course this is a mashup now, but a huge power will came with the integration of both, don’t you agree?