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My Wrox Blox Books – Now on Amazon!

By Damien White | Published: January 30, 2009

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com.  Pretty cool stuff!  They were listed up there before, but weren’t available directly through Amazon until now.  For a full description and the table of contents of each, just click on the Amazon links [...]

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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2008

Yesterday, Monday, September 29th, Microsoft announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.  For even more information on this, September 29th – October 3rd is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9. Microsoft has been busy this week announcing exciting changes, and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 is certainly [...]

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jQuery and Visual Studio

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2008

Cool Stuff! Microsoft has announced that they will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  For more information on this announcement, you can refer to Scott Guthrie’s or Bertrand Le Roy’s announcement.  It will be licensed under the MIT license (as it is now) and will not be altered from the original source.  The [...]

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Wrox Blox – ASP.NET AJAX Control Development with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Framework

By Damien White | Published: April 28, 2008

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,AJAX,Controls I’m happy to announce that my second Wrox Blox is done and available for purchase as of today!  As you may remember, back in January, my first Wrox Blox on the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit was released.  Now, continuing with the ASP.NET AJAX theme, the new Wrox Blox deals with creating your [...]

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Updated Blog – Migration from Subtext to BlogEngine.NET

By Damien White | Published: March 12, 2008

Technorati Tags: BlogEngine.NET,Subtext What better thing to do on a Tuesday night (well ok, Wednesday morning) when you can’t sleep than update your blogging engine.  Subtext is a great blogging engine, however; we outgrew some of its features.  In its place, we decided to go with BlogEngine.NET.  The transition was pretty easy thanks to BlogML, [...]

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