With Silverlight 2, the focus moves to optimizing development of RIA-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft's Brad Becker on Silverlight 2 and the enterprise market.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft releases beta of model-view-controller framework with a go-live license.
- By Becky Nagel and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
A consortium of vendors focused on AJAX interoperability last week unveiled two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them.
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Peter begins to explore the usability of Dynamic Data and Entity Framework by adding the simplest possible data model to his application.
Silverlight 2, the latest version of
Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia
applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials
announced on Monday.
Microsoft's tools for building rich Internet applications (RIAs)-ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2-promise to help take the "developer ugly" out of line-of-business software.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/09/2008
What's in SP1 for ASP.NET developers? At least one bug fix, a couple of enhancements and -- perhaps -- something that will change your life. But Peter is suspicious.
Is it time to move from classic Web apps to Silverlight clients?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008
Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.
Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Peter stumps for the Cache, despite developers' worries over stale or lost data.
The ASP.NET Cache object could be the secret to speeding up your application if you just started using it more.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
Peter answers a reader's question by showing how to access data inside the individual controls of the various DataViews.