MSDN Ireland News

If you are interested in Azure - check out the links below: Download the Windows Azure Software Development Kit (January 2009 CTP) The Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop Internet...

If you do any web-related development and you haven't already got it - now is the time to download IE8 (now available as release candidate 1) and check for compatibility with your existing sites. You can get it at the Internet Explorer home page . ...

Earlier this month, Windows 7 Beta was announced at the Internation CES . If you are curious about what this new version of Windows brings to the table, you should check out the Windows 7 home page . You'll be able to download the beta from there. ...

Details of the latest .NET Coffee Break included below. It's on December 11th with Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team who will be broadcasting live from the US. Last one before Xmas! Summary: Parallel...

Developers.ie have a great new .NET Coffee Break show scheduled - Josh Holmes will be speaking on Leveraging IronRuby in Silverlight. More details from the site are included below. You'll need to register on the site to get the details of how to connect...

And for those of you down in Cork - check out the next user group meeting on December 1st focusing on Sharepoint. You can read more details below and register here . Date: 01 December 2008 19:00 - 21:00 Summary Here is your...

If you've been reading alot about Silverlight, WPF and all the various flavours of the Expression tools - you might be wondering about how they all fit together, and with more mature technologies like VB6 and WinForms. Well, this is your chance to find...

For those of you who haven't seen David Chappell speak before - let me assure you - it's a real treat! I am just back from TechEd in Barcelona, where I saw him deliver some of the content included below. It's a really excellent and entertaining session...

For those of you who were disappointed that the Visual Studio 2010 half-day seminar is booked up - you might be able to head along to the latest Dublin User Group Event. The guys in MTUG.ie have arranged for Matt and Andy to do a condensed version of...

So - if you were there at the launch last Thursday, you hopefully know all about the programme. But for those who weren't here is a quick overview including some of the questions we got asked on the night... If you are interested, then check out www...

There was a great turn-out at the launch of Bizspark, Microsoft's new programme for software start-ups. We had over 130 attendees from 90 companies and after a few short presentations from Paul Rellis (GM, Microsoft Ireland), Cliff Reeves (GM, Microsoft...

Following on from the announcement of JQuery Javascript Library, developers.ie have scheduled one of their .NET Coffee Breaks with John Resig, creator and lead developer of the JQuery Javascript library, live from Boston. Below are the details from...

*** UPDATE - this event is now full *** However - there is a user group meeting covering some of the same content scheduled for Friday evening, 7-9pm, Nov 14th in the Morrison hotel. Click here for more details and to register . Disappointed...

Lots of economic doom and gloom out there at the moment - but, if you want to hear some good news, come along and join us for a Start-up Networking Event on the evening of November 6th in The Four Seasons hotel in Dublin. We have some exciting news about...

I've just heard that one of our local MVPs, Martin Woodward has won the PDC2008 ShowOff competion with his video on 'Brian the Build Bunny'. This video on how you can use TFS has always been one of my favourites (who can resist such a cute bunny??? ;...

If you've been tuning into some of the news from Microsoft's PDC (Professional Developer Conference), you'll have heard about Window's Azure, Microsoft's new operating system for the cloud. There is a pretty good video introduction on Channel9 by Manuvir...

A quick reminder for folks who are not on the SQL Server user group mailing list - Kevin Kline is speaking in Dublin and Cork this week. Kevin is consistently one of the most highly rated speakers at Irish community events - so it is well worth heading...

As I just mentioned , Silverlight 2 is shipping from today. If you want to learn more - a good place to start is the next .NET Coffee break from developers.ie with Tim Heuer. It's on tomorrow (Oct 15th) at 3pm Irish time. Here are the details from...

Head along to www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ to take a look at Silverlight 2 - which was released last night. Listed below are some of the highlights of Silverlight 2 which are full supported by Expression Blend 2 SP1 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...

See below for details on the latest .Net Coffee Break Show - coming up on 2nd of October! Sidar Ok is a Senior .NET developer in Decare Systems Ireland based in Cork, and is a regular blogger and a contributor to many Open Source projects and MSDN...

Josh Holmes (Architect from Microsoft Redmond) will be visiting on the 9th of October to do a community talk on Rich Internet/Interactive Applications (RIAs) in the Morrisson Hotel here in Dublin. Talk starts at 7pm. The title of his talk will be “Developing...

Just wanted to give you a heads-up on an upcoming, free event in Cork. Sidar Ok, who is a senior .NET developer in DeCare Systems, will be speaking in Cork on Monday, 22 September at 19:00 on the topic of LINQ to SQL. The presentation will discuss the...

It’s no secret here in Ireland that Virtual Earth has been getting a lot of exciting new developments and investment lately. With all the new Birds Eye View maps, 3D enhancements and models and sophisticated APIs for developers, there’s little wonder...

Have you heard that you can now create your own Photosynths? Check out the Photosynth website for more details about how to create your own 3D panoramic experience with your personal photos. Check out some of the Photosynths already created , including...

The Windows 2008 user group has two great events coming up in September (W2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 [virtualisation]) and October (day long training by Alex Yushchenko on W2008 Terminal Services). More details from Aidan , who...