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Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities. Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight 3 now supports hardware graphics acceleration – enabling both video and graphics compositing to be offloaded onto a GPU. This can dramatically lo

[Also check out the next part of this series] In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything. 1. Create Extension methods of UrlHelper to generate your url from Route Avoid

SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the important considerations that any Internet web-site needs to design with in mind. A non-trivial percentage of Internet traffic to sites is driven by search engines, and good SEO techniques can help increase site traffic even further. Likewise, small mistakes can significantly impact the search relevance of your site’s content and cause you to miss ou

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I’ve been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scot

Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC). Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh). It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 (which is free). Today’s RC is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that we’ll ship prior to the final "1.0" release. We ex

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use. Steps to Enable jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 To enable intellisense completion for jQuery wit

We shipped Silverlight 2 last month. Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines. It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable them to automatically deploy across enterprises. Over 1 in 4 computers on the Internet now have so

To help people come up to speed with Silverlight 2, I've written a simple Silverlight application and put together a series of step by step tutorials that explain the different programming concepts behind it (controls, layout management, networking, data-binding, styles, user controls, templates, etc). I also added a tutorial post that demonstrates how to migrate the application outside of the bro

Windows Vista for Developers – Part 3 – The Desktop Window Manager Although Windows 95 (and Window NT 3.51) introduced Windows developers to non-rectangular windows, through the ability to set the window region for a given window using the SetWindowRgn function, this did not provide transparency since the window was still completely opaque and merely afforded the developer some control over the wi

Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know In this blog entry, I list the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. I wanted to keep this list brief. I also wanted to focus on only those tips and tricks that I use on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it, here. Cross Platform / Cross Browser .NET Development Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich media experiences and .NET RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) within the browser. Silverlight 2 is small in size

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code. jQuery supports this via a nice "selector" API that allows developers to quer

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq-videos/). Beth steps through creating the LINQ to XML and how you can populate your Excel document. When I used this in an ASP.NET application, I

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install on a machine. It does not require the .NET Framework or any other software to be installed for it to work, and

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases. These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November. They also contain a number of feature additions and enhancements that make building .NET app

Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Now Available for Download Today we released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers (basically all of the built-in providers that ship in the .NET 2.0 Framework Redist). You can download them here, and learn more about th

Looking for the Count Everything app? Download it for free from the Apple App Store: The new beta of Silverlight 2 introduces Sockets. The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin. So Silverlight 2 applications will be allowed to connect only to the host from which they were downloaded. As the Web b

Last week I did a First Look at Silverlight 2 post that talked about the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta1 release. In the post I linked to some end-to-end tutorials I've written that walk through some of the fundamental programming concepts behind Silverlight and WPF, and demonstrate how to use them to build a "Digg Search Client" application using Silverlight: Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Sil

Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model. We are shortly going to release the first public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet App

Silverlight Tutorial Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios This is part six of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple search client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bin

Silverlight Tutorial Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data This is part five of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple Digg client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bing I

Silverlight Tutorial Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel This is part four of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bing Imag

Silverlight Tutorial Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid This is part three of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bing Im

This is part two of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bing Image Search version. </Download Code> <Download Code> Click here to download a completed v

Silverlight Tutorial Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 This is part one of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple search client application using Silverlight 2. These tutorials are intended to be read in-order, and help explain some of the core programming concepts of Silverlight. <Download Code> Click here to download a completed version of the Bing I

This past December we released the first preview of a new ASP.NET MVC Framework as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Release. I also wrote a number of blog posts that provide more detail on what the ASP.NET MVC framework is and how you can optionally use it: Introducing the ASP.NET MVC Framework ASP.NET MVC Tutorial (Part 1) ASP.NET MVC Tutorial (Part 2: Url Routing) ASP.NET MVC Tutorial (Par

Last October I blogged about our plan to release the source code to the .NET Framework libraries, and enable debugging support of them with Visual Studio 2008. Today I'm happy to announce that this is now available for everyone to use. Specifically, you can now browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries: .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom,

SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin... This past holiday (I've been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL). The code won't have reference to any SimCity name as that has all be renamed to Micropolis. Micropolis w