Check out Somasegar's announcement on Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Studio Support for Vista. There is a good discussion on the annoucement on his blog.

It must be a busy time for software developers right now - we have had a number of requets in recently on how you can get support from Microsoft. Well the good news is that there are lots of ways to get free support - Rob has a great article on his favourite...

A beta version of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office 2007 has just been released.You can download the beta from here . It was developed under the code name Cypress . VSTO 2005 SE Beta offers managed-code add-in support for six Office 2007 applications...

At the end of September, we will be hosting a free MSDN afternoon event on Developer Tools for Improving Your Software Development Lifecycle Process . The event will be on in both Dublin and Belfast on September 26 th and September 28 th respectively...

If you are in the Cork area, you should make sure to head along to the Imperial Hotel at 7pm tonight for the September meeting of the Cork area Microsoft Technology User Group . Rob will be down from Dublin to give a talk on "Atlas" and Dominick Baier...

Two great offers are ending the end of September (register before 29th) - first of all, the free Mobile Resource Kit availble from MSDN Connection Ireland - secondly the early bird rate (€300 off) for TechEd Europe. TechEd Europe looks like it has...

Just a quick reminder that if you are around Dublin tonight to pop into TCD Arts Block, Walton Theatre at 7:30pm to hear Prof. Andrew Blake from Microsoft Research give his talk on “Computer Science and Illusion: A Computational View of the Interpretation...