I'm very happy to announce that the latest version of StsDev 2008, Version 2.0, is now available for download.   What Changed? StsDev 2008 V2 is now a composite of several capabilities and no longer requires a stand alone executable to perform ...[Read More]

After following Scott Gu's 8 part blog on Silverlight and using it to get a feed from Digg I decided to try out my own Silverlight project. Since I use Twitter, not nearly enough, I thought it would be fun to have a little application that can rea ...[Read More]

I finally have a little time while some code I developed is being tested to take a look at the "new" technologies Microsoft has released. Since my experimentation of Azure flopped, I didn't have a supported system, I decided to turn my a ...[Read More]

After creating my first Visual Studio Template Item I decided that creating another would be interesting as well. Since I had already done the feature receiver I didn't feel that creating the web part item template would be as interesting, so I de ...[Read More]

I recently ran across a very well done video, except the developer was using VB and I'm a C# person, about how to create your own Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates. After watching the video I decided to play around with the StsDev2008 projects and ...[Read More]

So I readily admit that I am often a code junkie, if I can do it in code then I will. However, I have started to look for tools and solutions that let me code less, drag and drop more, and generate solutions that look better faster.     I have ...[Read More]

Recently some co-workers have complained that there are no working/good examples on the web of how to create web parts that can be connected, so I created an example with the entire source included so you can have a "working" example. Th ...[Read More]

STSDev 2008, MicroLink LLC's codeplex project, is now a publicly available CodePlex project. STSDev 2008 is a more production ready version of the original STSDev project created by Ted Pattison and his team. We have taken their code, corrected se ...[Read More]