What makes a Developer a hero? Developers, Architects, Testers, Designers – to name only a few strive to design, build and deliver the systems that make the worlds IT run. They pride themselves on creativity, reliability and getting the job done right. Developer Heroes are everywhere you look, from the coder and testing groups, to the Web site designer and developer, they are looking to what’s next and how they can push the here and now to strive for the future. Heroes Happen here and developers need to celebrate.
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Since last week's release of the 11119 version of the AJAX Control Toolkit , some people have reported problems using the .NET 3.5 flavor of the Toolkit with the Visual Studio 2008 web designer. Our team has just updated the 3.5 ZIPs ( AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5.zip...
Free tools are now available to test your applications for Windows Server 2008 compatibility. These tools are available by enrolling with the Innovate on Windows Server 2008 site. This development portal includes key marketing information and resources...
Cool! There are so many additional features that the Silverlight team is adding to it that instead of calling it a point release, they're going with a major release number. (unlike the naming convention we used for WM6 :P). here's the list of new features:..
This morning Scott Guthrie , a big name to those in the the ASP.NET community, published a great comprehensive blog post about the roadmap for many of our key technologies and tools, including ASP.NET, Silverlight and IIS7. Among the big announcements:...
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