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I thought I already mentioned it previously, but probably the things that happened to me in the last month made me forget to mention it. But going to the point, my Belgian Kiwi friend Ivan is starting…

If you want to access a web service from an ASP.NET Ajax page or from a Silverlight 2.0 app, you have to decorate it with the ScriptService attribute. This will enable the creation of a JavaScript…

He made the step and now he has his English only blog, hosted on the MyOpera community site: Lorenzo was the co-founder of the company I worked for before going to in New Zealand. I worked with him…

Today, taking advantage of the International version of the Black Friday, I finally ordered a MacBook. I went for the mid version, which is the 13", 2.2Ghz SantaRosa-based Core 2 Duo, 120GB HDD and…

The same day VS2008 was released, Microsoft released also a training kit with 120Mb of PPT, demos and code samples. Among the many demos there is one about the new features of ASP.NET introduced with…

A lot of talking went on in the last months whether 1.1 was a good version number for Silverlight vNext, the one that will support managed code, a more extended BCL. And almost everybody agreed that,…

... at least for me, at least in Italy. First there is the release of the alpha version of the Silverlight 1.1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 RTM, which allows me to uninstall the beta2 and go with the…

Hammett, founder of Castle, the father of MonoRail, went to Redmond invited by the ASP.NET MVC team, to review the new framework, and give his opinion based on his experience having built a similar…

After the initial release of the Team Suite on the MSDN, I just saw that also the VS 2008 Express Editions and the trial versions of VSTS (Professional version still to come) have been released. In…

Since many of you asked me about it, I thought I should write a short recap on my first week of work at Avanade. I'd like to be short, so I'll comment with just 2 words: impressed and…