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Silverlight + (Game of) Life = SilverLIFE

Aug 9, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

My friend Jeff Prosise has taken John Conway's mathematically-based Game of Life, automated it and given it a slick UI using Microsoft Silverlight 1.1. I'm sure Jeff had fun writing this, …

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Life

Power Tools for DBPro are just around the corner

Aug 8, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Gert Drapers, the PM for Database Professionals announced that the first set of Power Tools should be released by the end of this week. With that in mind I wanted to blogging about some of the cool …

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Visual Studio ALM

NBusiness on CodePlex feels like a Ruby app

Aug 6, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

NBusiness is an Entity Definition Language focused on the creation of business entities. Basically, you use a construct called E# to build a code file, which is then ‘compiled’ into C#. …

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Misc Tools

New Open Source Portal App in .NET - Umbraco

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Umbraco looks pretty amazing! It may not have the following of Dot Net Nuke, but it looks to be a lot more open to web standards. I’ve tried many times to really like DNN, but it just pains me …

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Misc

dasBlog autolink

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Hey! This is a neat little easter egg in dasBlog. Whenever you type dasBlog it automatically inserts a hyperlink to the site. I wonder if it works for das Blog and DasBlog, as well.

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Misc

FamilyShow Not to be missed WPF and Silverlight Demo

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Head to Vertigo and run the Family.Show demo of WPF and Silverlight. It’s a trivial download, and shows off some of the power of both technologies. You can find it here. You can also download …

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Misc

SharePoint Features on CodePlex

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

SharePoint features are an incredibly useful way to deploy chunks of functionality to web sites. Although they can be difficult to grok at first, once you do, they make a lot of sense! Scot Hillier, a …

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Microsoft

The future of Team System: Rosario CTP - Available now

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Not only did Microsoft just recently post Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) a few days ago, but yesterday Microsoft made a CTP of the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (codename Rosario) …

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Visual Studio ALM

The future of Team System: Rosario CTP - Available now!

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Not only did Microsoft just recently post Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) a few days ago, but yesterday Microsoft made a CTP of the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (codename Rosario) …

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Visual Studio SQL Server ALM