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Silverlight is a Web application development framework similar to Adobe Flash.  Microsoft has just released Silverlight 3, a major update that delivers many new features including: Hardware graphics acceleration, which lowers CPU usage and enables 1080p HD video over the Web. Support for H.264 video, AAC audio and MPEG-4 content. Smooth media streaming over HTTP. 3D-perspective Related posts: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Released Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET 3.5 Beta Available

If you encounter this warning while compiling a Windows Form application in Visual Studio: The service System.Windows.Forms.Design.IEventHandlerService already exists in the service container. Parameter name: serviceType The solution is not very obvious, and the help provides no guidance.  After a little experimenting, I discovered an easy solution: Exit Visual Studio. Open Explorer, and navigate to the folder Related posts: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Released Adding Assemblies to the Visual Studio "Add Reference" Dialog Web Service Stumper: “Ambiguous Type”

Microsoft has just released the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1): Release Candidate (RC). The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems.  The Windows

This article explains how to use C# to determine the name, edition, service pack, version and bits of the host operating system. For example, the results on my PC would be: Operation System Information —————————- Name = Windows Vista Edition = Home Premium Service Pack = Service Pack 1 Version = 6.0.6001.65536 Bits = 64 Code You can download the code here. Sample Program Here is a

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  This update patches numerous bugs, improves performance, and even adds a few new features.  As a .NET commercial software developer, I am most excited that SP1 provides a .NET Framework installation optimized for client applications.  The optimized download is less than 28 MB, compared to the original 200 MB download that all but ensured consumers would not download .NET 3.5 and hence forced us to remain on .NET 2.0 (see FAT .NET ). Read more… ShareThis