"This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2."

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last mo...

The Guthrie/Hanselman Conspiracy

Someone had to submit this sooner or later... :)

This is the article that ScottGu points to in http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/ScottGu_Unit_Testing_with_Silverlight , even thought it has more meat than Scott's article.

One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests...

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"Last week the IIS team shipped the first technical preview of some really cool administration modules that I think web developers will find super useful." Database Manager, Log Reports, Configuration Editor, Request Filtering UI, .NET Authorization, FastCGI UI

The blog post below provides a quick overview of some of the options you can use to reduce the cost of delivering video, and discusses a new free download - the IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module - that was released a few days ago and which enables you to easily save money when serving video from an...

In this first set of Silverlight tutorials I didn't use a visual design tool to build the UI, and instead focused on showing the underlying XAML UI markup (which I think helps to explain the core programming concepts better). Now that we've finished covering the basics - let's explore some of the t...

Scott Guthrie was promoted last week to Corporate Vice President. Please join me in congratulating him!

Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use.

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While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs...