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19Feb/106

Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner.

Yesterday I gave a presentation on some new features in Silverlight 4.  During this presentation I mentioned the newly available ability to interoperate with Office applications such as Outlook and Excel though the new ComAutomationFactory that is in Silverlight 4.  Someone in the audience asked the question, “Can I access my scanner”, and of course [...]

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10Feb/100

Don’t install Visual Studio 2010 RC just yet

If you haven’t heard already, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was available for MSDN subscribers and would be probably available on 10 February 2010 for the public, which is today.  But before you get all excited and start installing the latest and greatest as soon as possible, you might want to slow [...]

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