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RunAtServer website new version
12 July 08 10:29 PM | Laurent Duveau
As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com...
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[Cool Tool] Vector Magic
24 June 08 06:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
Vector Magic is an online tool that converts bitmaps into vector images . It provides a wizard that helps you through the process, so you can easily generate your vector graphics from bitmaps, then import into Microsoft Expression Designer or Blend. I...
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My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing
22 May 08 10:54 PM | Laurent Duveau
This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch...
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[Cool Tool] FTP Live
28 April 08 07:35 PM | Laurent Duveau
This is not a "must have" but a "good to know", as it can be pretty useful. Have you ever been is a situation where you have to upload files to an FTP server but have no access because FTP ports are disable (at work for example) ?...
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[Cool Tool] Meta Tag Analyzer
06 April 08 11:13 AM | Laurent Duveau
Meta Tag Analyzer is a free online tool by SubmitExpress that analyze your web site and tells you how good/relevant your title and description are in relation to your content and chosen keywords. Try Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer...
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Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.
05 April 08 05:30 PM | Laurent Duveau
A new campaign has raised on the web to invite IE6 users to upgrade to a high level browser (IE7, Firefox, Opera or Safari) in order to make everyone happier (users + developers). "Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their...
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Testing web apps on IE6, IE7 and IE8
03 April 08 05:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
As web developers we have to test our websites on IE6, then IE7, and now IE8. You can find tips and tricks to install several versions of IE on the same machine, but it may be easier and cleaner to use VPC instead. Microsoft provides a link to download...
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VS2008 and IE8 auto Js debugging mode
18 March 08 10:58 PM | Laurent Duveau
Here is a nice feature of IE8: Remember both "Disable script debugging" options you had to uncheck in IE to enable JavaScript debugging ? You no longer have to! You can now stay on default "script debugging off" mode in IE and when...
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[Cool Tool] Browsershots
16 March 08 06:13 PM | Laurent Duveau
Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your web site in different browsers/versions on multiple platforms (Win, Mac, Linux). Use it to test the look of your web sites : http://browsershots.org/ Set your choices then come back later...
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Expression Web 2
13 March 08 01:37 AM | Laurent Duveau
Back from MIX08 I've just installed Expression Studio 2 and my first try is Expression Web 2, not for the new features yet, but to check if my 2 most frustrating bugs were fixed, and they were! 1. EW2 now remembers your credential when accessing remote...
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[MIX08] Keynote
06 March 08 03:42 AM | Laurent Duveau
MIX08 Keynote was driven by Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch. Ray Ozzie talked about connected apps and how Microsoft go to the advertising market (explains the Johnny cash theme ?). Scott Guthrie did a talk around 4 points (and also did...
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SwissTrains: Impressive mashup!!
07 February 08 10:09 PM | Laurent Duveau
OMG this is *Really* impressive!!! View Swiss trains live on a map : http://www.swisstrains.ch Current version use Google Maps and the official train timetable to estimate trains positions, but they are working on a solution based on realtime GPS information...
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MIX08 conference soon!
01 February 08 09:31 PM | Laurent Duveau
In case you do not know MIX is a Microsoft web development conference hold in Las Vegas each year. This is where they make great announcements like Silverlight last year (MIX07), people start to call it "The PDC for web developers". -> MIX08...
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Learning ASP.NET (links to resources)
29 November 07 07:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
People often ask me where to find resources to learn ASP.NET I must say that I learnt almost EVERYTHING from the QuickStart Tutorials : http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/Default.aspx These tutorials are very good and shows every features...
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Expression Web and Custom Controls
18 November 07 12:41 PM | Laurent Duveau
In case you wonder how Expression Web deals with custom ASP.NET controls, there are 2 things to notice : Having the control assembly into the \bin directory will not give you any design time rendering in Expression Web. Expression Web do not support custom...
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