Categories: Dotnet/.NET - C#LinksProgrammingSilverlight

Finds of the Week – Nov 28, 2007

I took a break from blogging last week for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Here are the Finds for this week.

.NET

Just in case you have not heard, Visual Studio 2008 has been released (ScottGu). I installed the released version earlier this week and everything looks good so far. The first thing I noticed was the very quick load time compared to 2005.
Silverlight 1.1 is now 2.0. By Tim Sneath.
Dan Fernandez listed the top 15 things to love about Visual Studio 2008 Express.
Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 2.0 is available. By Guy Barrette.
Aaronontheweb shared 5 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks for the week of 11/20/2007. By Aaronontheweb.
bloggingdeveloper wrote a nice article on how to compress ViewState.

Software and Tools

Odiogo can make your blog talk. By Mads Kristensen.
I have been a long-time user of MSN Money Porfolio and stock charts but lately I really liked the stuff Yahoo! has been adding to their Finance section. Their new Flash-based stock chart is the best in its class. My favorite feature is the ability to drag left/right to go back/forward in time. Also their quotes are now streaming (AJAX)… meaning anywhere you see a price quote, it will be automatically refreshed. Real time quotes are available for as an optional service as well.
To track disk space usage, my tool of choice is Windirstats. Windirstats is Open Source.

Tech, Windows Mobile, Gadgets

Google has just released the beta version of My Location, a service that allows GPS like functionality with Google Maps on your mobile device without a GPS. It doesn’t work for me on my Samsung i760 though. I always get this error message: “Your current location is temporarily unavailable”.

Looks like many others are getting the same error as well.

And Now, Something Different

Be careful where you put your cellphone.

Chinh Do

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