by Don Burnett IE 8 Beta 2 Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out, it runs directly in STANDARDS mode.. It does fairly well with a few of the javascript benchmarking "spiders" on the web and with the ACID Test it's not too bad either. The only thing is lack of SVG support which ACID is bent on adding...

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Over at John Gossman's Blog (Tales from the Smart Client) , he has attached quite a neat compilable source project for the latest version of WPF. It's a prototype implementation of the Silverlight Visual State Manager for WPF.. The project includes a neat custom sample control that is shows off just...

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Here's a Channel 9 video that addresses this important subject. Saqib Shaikh and Scott Hanselman: Designing for Accessibility...

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Another Channel 9 video: Adam Kinney and Eric Schmidt shows us how it was created.. Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight...

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New Features in WPF.. Kevin Moore: New Features in WPF 3.5...

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From WindowsClient.Net: Having Trouble? Try.. Launch in external player...

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by Don Burnett Well this week has saw some monumental news, a new improved version of WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) was just released this week and it seems to be very well received by anyone, but have you been watching who's doing applications with WPF.. My motivation for writing this article...

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by Don Burnett A lot of friends of mine don't understand why I like Windows Vista x64 so much? Could it be performance? Could it be the graphics? Could I be crazy? Well I won't tell you which of these reasons are more likely to my friends.. But I had one friend ask me why my Vista installation seemed...

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By Don Burnett UPDATE: A video on the DataGrid CTP and a How-to Sample over at Vincent Sibal's Blog is now AVAILABLE for further consumption.. Wait you say what DataGrid control? Well it's no secret that there are third party ones out there, but Microsoft has been working on a set of controls to bring...

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by Don Burnett If you are having problems with Silverlight after SP1 installs of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, then it's probably more than likely that you haven't cleanly uninstalled ALL OF the previous beta bits properly... Try this: Uninstall all Silverlight 2 elements from...

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