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WebMatrix is a new lightweight tool, server, database and Web programming framework. The goal is to provide an easy on-ramp to building Web applications and to provide tools to easily create and customize pre-built applications like WordPress, Umbraco CMS and more. WebMatrix Beta: More…

Find out how you can ride the next wave of innovation with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Learn about the variety of rich application platforms that Visual Studio 2010 supports, including Windows 7, web, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, and Windows Phone 7 Series.…

Microsoft has signed on to contribute to the open-source project Joomla!, a content management system for publishing to the web and intranet sites. According to a post on the Joomla! blog, Microsoft has now signed the JCA (Joomla! Contributor Agreement) and has contributed code that will be…

You may know him as Mr. How Do I with Microsoft ASP.NET. For the last few years Joe has been busy working with the ASP.NET product team to simplify and educate developers on what's possible with the latest web tools. We talk with Joe about how the web developer is able to learn about and leverage…

The webcam and microphone API was the first thing I played with after the Silverlight 4 beta was released at last year's PDC. In my opinion, it's one of the coolest features. You can do a lot of fun Silverlight applications with it too. When the SLARToolkit was released, I finally had time to…

Reading a post by Phil Haack, I learned about a neat technology called LESS that helps reduce the amount of CSS and duplicated code you have to create.  It was originally a Ruby Gem but now has a .Net port called .Less which can be found at www.dotlesscss.com.  It lets you do some…

Adam Kinney created a fun example squishing bugs to show off Silverlight 4.0's webcam support.  He created simple motion detection using a diff calculation on multiple threads to figure out where his finger was to smooth the bugs!  Here is a video showing off the project.   If…

Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits present the ideas behind Doloto. Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and…

The ASP.Net team has just announced a new free service for the public to use.  If you have a website that uses jquery or the ASP.Net Ajax libraries, you can leverage our content delivery network (CDN) servers. To implement this, on your website you just need to replace your current jquery…

Every once in a while I will run into a situation where I need to send a file to someone, but struggle to find an easy way of doing it.  Instant messenger programs usually work until you run into a situation where someone just cannot send or receive a file from chat client whether it's due to…