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]

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]

As weird as it may sound, a Windows Update actually broke the default installation of DotNetNuke. The error occurs when you try to open the default editor page by clicking on any HTML module on the "Edit page" item. You'll receive the following error: "The Runat attribute must h... [More]

Just little more than 3 months after beta 1, Microsoft released beta 2 of our favorite IDE! This time, beta 2 contains a go-live license and includes full support for WPF and Silverlight applications. Scott Guthrie mentioned earlier that it's 99% feature complete. Not only is Visual Studio up... [More]

Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 is almost here! Really, it's very close. Why, you say? Well, in a reply on his blog, Scott Guthrie mentioned that the new version will be released later this week! He added: "We'll do some small features additions/changes based on new feedback on Beta2, but... [More]

  For some of my latest projects, I have been using Enterprise Library for the Data Access Layer (combined with other technologies). In this tutorial, I will explain the Validation Application Block, a complete new application block included in version 3 of the library. I’ll creat... [More]