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Expanding the interoperability of eclipse4SL: Mac support comes to the Eclipse for Silverlight project

by Vijay Rajagopalan on March 18, 2009

In October 2008 , when Microsoft announced the general availability of Silverlight 2.0, and, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, Microsoft and Soyatec unveiled the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL). Today, Microsoft... more

• Wednesday, March 18, 2009
• in: Community
• Vijay Rajagopalan

Moonlight 1.0 Hits the Street

by Peter Galli on February 11, 2009

Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight is an open source project that gives Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content, and is available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu... more

• Wednesday, February 11, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

SMB2: a Complete Redesign of the Main Remote File Protocol for Windows

by Peter Galli on December 08, 2008

SMB (Server Message Block) is a remote file protocol commonly used by Microsoft Windows clients and servers that dates back to 1980's. Back when it was first used, LANs speeds were typically 10Mbps or less, WAN use was very limited and there were no Wireless... more

• Monday, December 08, 2008
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

by jcannon on October 03, 2007

Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...." ... more

• Wednesday, October 03, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon

ASP.NET AJAX Released!

by MichaelF on February 01, 2007

I wanted to take a moment to let the Port 25 community that Microsoft has officially released ASP.NET AJAX to the web under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)... ... more

• Thursday, February 01, 2007
• in: Community
• MichaelF