Web Sites  1.) Microsoft Data Platform Site – news and updated releases of their most recent data products 2.) ADO.NET Team blog - With so many new technologies and approaches this seems to be the source of the news with respect to data.   Development  3.) Excel generation on server (CodePlex) 4.) James Newton-King Json.NET - The Json.NET library makes working with JavaScript and JSON formatted data in .NET simple. Quickly read and write JSON using the JsonReader and JsonWriter or serialize your .NET...

1.) XAML Power toys - XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor.  Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools,  DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.  http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/ 2.) Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET Framework 3.5 Released! - Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET Framework 3.5 are now publicly available. Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5...

Today I received an update to my Sonos system.  Great things abound. Included in this release is Sonos access to Last.fm, Pandora and 1000’s of radio stations and ‘shows’ from around the world. Just messing around I entered West Chester, Ohio and got a list of all the local radio stations.  Of course you can enter any city you wish.  Very cool.   Sonos®, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today released Sonos System Software 2.7. Sonos 2.7 delivers a world of music to every room of the...

With a new laptop there have been quite a few things I have had to configure again.  One of those is the default source view application related to Internet Explorer.  The following instructions apply to Windows XP (not sure yet on Vista). I thought by changing the HTML Editor within IE (Tools - Internet Options - Programs) would have fixed the problem.  Nope, that did not work.  The following however does work nicely. Run Regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |- Software |-- Microsoft ...