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• Domain Registration & Hosting
• Keyword Research
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• Optimizing Site Structure
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• Use Push Marketing After Launching Your Site
• Understanding Network Effects
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FullPost: The Blogger’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall

A quick announcement – an updated version of the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 that works with the released version of Visual Studio 2008 is now available!

This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2.

To re-cap here is a quick summary of functionality in this add-on release:

• VB and C# project templates for Silverlight 1.1 development
• Website item templates for Silverlight 1.0 development with javascript
• XAML markup editing with colorization and intellisense
• Intellisense against XAML elements in VB and C# code-behind files
• Consumption of Silverlight 1.1 components inside Web Application and Website projects
• Ability to create Web Services references in a VB and C# Silverlight component
• Project compatibility with Expression Blend to enable developers and designers to collaborate on Silverlight projects

Resource: webdevtools

If you plan to use VS 2008 with SourceSafe, make sure to pick up the Update CTP too.  Without it, some features like “Open from Source Control” will not work at all.  Pay close attention to the install instructions as well.  As it says in the KB article:

You may receive error messages when you use Visual Studio 2008. This problem occurs because some compatibility fixes require the Tdnamespaceextension.dll file to be reregistered after you install Visual Studio 2008. To reregister the Tdnamespaceextension.dll file, type the following command at the [elevated - RB] command prompt:

regsvr32 “%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\tdnamespaceextension.dll”

Full post: Richard Berg’s

Optimizing Online, Enabling Offline with SQL Server Compact and Sync Services for ADO.NET
With Microsoft SQL Server Compact, developers can now easily cache data on the client in a compact, yet capable, transactional, queryable document-like database format. To maintain the cache, Sync Services for ADO.NET enables developers to easily cache data directly or over services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Visual Studio codename “Orcas” delivers new integrated, developer-oriented sync designers making caching an easy task to increase user productivity, decrease the server workload, and simplify data access. In addition to caching, you can use Sync Services for ADO.NET to enable full offline scenarios as well. Find out what SQL Server Compact and Sync Services for ADO.NET have to offer for the “edge of the network” clients.
Powerpoint
Demos
SyncNTierWithWCF Sample
One size doesn’t fit all - Logical Queuing Sample

Full Post: Steve Lasker’s Web Log

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CSLA .NET Status Update - November 2007

List of applications for the Linksys NSLU2