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Creating Silverlight 3 applications for PHP

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3.  If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news.VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio to PHP.  In addition to the great intellisense Visual Studio provides for JScript, ...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 now Live!

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live.  You can download it right now here.  Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release.  If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources.  Alternatively, check out the official site for tutorials, videos, and more....

Silverlight 3 Tools Beta Released!

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This installer includes: XAP Compression Improvements The Silverlight 3 SDK creates XAPs compressed up to 40% better than the Silverlight 2 SDK. Support for Cached Transparent Platform Extensions Reduce the size of your ...

ASP.NET Web Development Server Stops Working

March 13, 2009 Mar 13, 2009 03/13/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released at 8:45 PM (PST) on March 9, 2009 to address a Win32/PossibleHostFileHijack issue.  This update modified the hosts file to prevent malicious redirection of websites.  As a result, the entry for localhost may have been removed from the ...

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

March 4, 2009 Mar 4, 2009 03/4/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is live! Check out Phil Haack’s blog, Haacked.com, for information on the new installer and some other general release info. The release is mostly focused on responding to customer feedback but there are some minor tooling improvements and bug fixes that are worth calling out. Tooling Improvements And ...

Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available

March 4, 2009 Mar 4, 2009 03/4/09
CLR Team
We’ve mentioned Code Contracts over on the BCL Blog a few times now, but never yet on the CLR Blog.  Basically, Code Contracts are a way to add preconditions, post-conditions, and object invariants to your code.  The goal is to help you catch developer errors earlier in the cycle.  In my Introduction to Code Contracts post...