Operating system created entirely in C#
Wow this is very cool.
See how these guys are working on an OS entirely written in C#.
For more information:Â SharpOS
OpenXML SDK roadmap
I probably have to do some work in OpenXML in the near future, so this is some good news for me.
On this blogpost is some good information on the OpenXML SDK.
Problem building ASP.NET Ajax control toolkit vsi template
I was looking at the Ajax control toolkit today and wanted to build the vsi template to integrate the toolkit in visual studio.
However when I tried building the project I got the following error:
Could not load file or assembly ‘vjslib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’
After doing some research on the web I found the solution. The Visual J# redistributable package is needed. I didn’t install this with my visual studio installation because I thought it wasn’t necessary, well seems it is.
You can download the package for different platforms, here
Tools exposed at Mix08
Every year new tools and technologies are revealed at Mix. This year there are several new things, a couple new versions (IE8.0, Expression Blend 2.5, Silverlight 2.0).
Are you interested in trying out these tools ?
Check out this link, Ryan Stogaard colledted them an created a nice list.
Silverlight 2.0 OpenXML reader – on line
How cool!
This is a new Silverlight application that reached the web. Very nice GUI, very responsive, very..
Check it out, TextGlow
Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta1
Seems like I overlooked this release, well the new version of Internet Explorer can be downloaded here. It has some new an exciting features definitely worth checking out. You can look at the demo video’s to see how the new functionality exactly works.
Silverlight 2.0 addon for Visual Studio 2008 RTM
You may be asking yourself, why wasn’t there a blogpost about Silverlight 2.0. Well basically because it was such a hype the last weeks, if you didn’t catch that from somewhere else…anyway
Silverlight 2.0 looks good and has some promising new components. Haven’t had the time to check them out but will do that in the near future.
But this is something I do find interesting if you want to develop Silverlight 2.0 in you Visual Studio 2008 RTM. This is an addon you need to install to develop Silverlight 2.0 in Visual Studio 2008 RTM. What will this install
- Silverlight 2 Beta 1
- Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 1
- KB949325 for Visual Studio 2008
- Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008
Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 includes:
- Visual Basic and C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Web reference support
- Integration with Expression Blend
Download the package here;
Silverlight + sharepoint
Something new hit the market a couple of days ago. Silverlight Blueprints for Sharepoint. What’s that all about ?
Well it’s basically a framework where you can create silverlight webparts etc for Sharepoint. This means you can build some stunning effects into your sharepoint portal. On this link you can find 6 examples.
First game for Microsoft Surface
After my last post, this one is again focused on Microsoft Surface. I just love this new technology..In this video you can see a demo of a game called Firefly being played on the Surface. This is something cool, imagine having this in your living room and you have guests. You can play all sorts of fun games with them, at least if the technology lets you. The traditional board games will be left in the closet, scrabble, monopoly, etc will be played together around the Microsoft Surface.
