HowTo: SQL Database web access with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Entity Framework (hosted on IIS 6.0)

I started my programming career with PHP and MySQL and I used very often a webbased mysql admin panel called "PhpMyAdmin". It has (of course) not all features of the SQL Management Studios, but if I only want to have a quick look at the database it is very cool – and you only need …

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The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate was today published by Scott Gu. Scott wrote a great blogpost about the improvements in the RC in his blog.

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Last week was the public release of the Windows 7 Beta – you can download it here. In installed it on my ThinkPad R61 and take a look at it. Here are my first impressions. Is it better than Vista?  

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Monomentale games

Mono as a game platform? With Unity 3D you can create games and even publish it on the Wii or the iPhone/iPod Touch. First mono-based games are now in the stores.

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Microsoft Surface + XNA: Creative touchscreen ideas

I just found that video on the Microsoft Surface Blog: The pen demo is very cool – and a great idea how you could interact with such devices.

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