I presented at the Visug Best of TechEd 2007 event last week. It was only a small presentation on the ASP.net Futures releases that are coming, including the Silverlight and the MediaPlayer control. If you want to view these files, click below for the small slidedeck with the demo's. ... [More]

Already downloaded VS 2008 RTM? Great! Doing some Silverlight 1.1 development? Great too! However, the combination of both is not yet possible. At this moment, you can't use the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio yet with the RTM release. Here's what Scott Guthrie says on th... [More]

Finally, we can present the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM Training Kit. This kit is a real goldmine, containing presentations, Hands-On-Labs, demo's... on all topics related to Visual Studio 2008. Now you only have to find about 5 days to complete all that's in here, and you&... [More]

Yes, it's here, the eagle has landed! Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'ed! If you're an MSDN subscriber, you can start your download engines, it's a whopping 3921 MB large file for the entire Team Suite. If you haven't used the Beta 2 version, you can download the whitepaper h... [More]

I have not upgraded my Visual Studio 2008 to RTM yet, but here's a good guide on how to uninstall and upgrade without running into problems: http://www.ekampf.com/blog/2007/11/19/UninstallingPreviousVersionsOfVisualStudio2008.aspx

After the first real controlset for Silverlight, Sapphire by ComponentOne, was released earlier today, I started by reading the quickstart guide (one has to start somewhere, isn't it). I created a first demo application (actually, it was not even a demo application for that matter), usin... [More]