27 Sep
2010

Pluralcast 25 : Windows Phone 7

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Listen Now! [48:11] Windows Phone 7 is poised to soon move beyond walls of Microsoft and into consumers hands. That means we developers can start to think about actually writing apps for the device and this show introduces us to the developer experience for Windows Phone 7. Adam Grocholski Adam is a Technical Evangelist at […]

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21 Sep
2010

OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”)

I was experimenting recently with the .Net implementation of OData and ran across one of my pet peeves. ?Magic Strings?. Apparently, the .Net community?s definition of magic strings is close but seems slightly different from Wikipedia. Therefore the magic strings I?m talking about here are what you?ll find on such posts as ?Functional .Net ? […]

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2 Sep
2010

Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0

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In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new update for Silverlight 4 yesterday, along with a new SDK.  You can check out the details at KB2164913. The stuff I was interested in: Add New Row for the DataGrid Improved application startup performance Mouse wheel support for out-of-browser  applications on the Mac Media bug […]

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1 Sep
2010

Microsoft doesn’t create bad developers, developers do

Have you ever stopped to think about the industry you have choose to work in (I’m bluntly assuming that if you are reading this you are working in the software industry in some way)? I would call it one of the most complex industries in the world. Think about it. We are working in an […]

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