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Here it is, the first draft of the developer agenda for TechEd Middle East, coming up on March 1st 2010 in Dubai, UAE! The entire show is just 99 breakout sessions, so there are lots of hard prioritization decisions that I am going to try explain...

I get this question a lot: where can we find out more about SharePoint? No, that’s not what I need, I’m a developer! Well, finally, here is a developer centric resource with SharePoint 2010 developer content: Channel 9’s SharePoint 2010 Developer courses...

From the days of pain installing TFS 2005, this post is almost pointless: the 2010 installations of both Team Suite and Team Foundation Server are just about as simple as can be. Here is my installation on a Lenovo W500 running Windows 7 64bit: 1. Windows...

Everywhere I go, people ask for more content, more information. Here’s more in the context of today’s presentation at Gitex, Windows 7 for Developers: Windows 7 Developer Training Kit Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit SQL Server 2008 Developer Training...

TechEd right here in Dubai! No more need for travel visas to cold Europe or far away USA :) "Microsoft’s premier technical education and networking conference is coming to the Middle East. Connect one-on-one with Microsoft insiders and IT peers,...

I know which side of this bridge I’ll be standing on, but a bridge there has to be… More details from Noelios Technologies as well as a complete tutorial !

“Take advantage of this great offer to receive training and acquire certification on Microsoft SQL Server technology, and get a free copy of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition so you can gain hands-on experience.” How awesome is that?

Easily searchable catalog of online training available for Microsoft technologies: There is a wide range and the categorization of the search results make for a quick click & discover experience! And they have both presentations as well as Virtual...

If you want to make a day job out of Windows Mobile development, take a look at some of the RampUp training available for Windows Mobile developers: Level 1: Mobile Development Introduction Level 2: Device Emulators Level 3: Mobile Windows Forms Development...

How often do you get to pick a Blank Solution at the start of a tutorial? :) Add a new HTML file: this will be for the markup that describes what your widget looks like. Add a new XML file named config.xml : this will be the manifest – the description...

I’m still looking for a physical device, but the emulator will do for this first exercise: if you’ve followed the previous parts to this “series” you should by now have everything installed that’s needed. Credit: most of this post is based off the Windows...

I am installing the Windows Mobile Developer Resource Kit again as in Part II . First: Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 – appears to install successfully except for: I still don’t know if that matters, so I’m ignoring it for now. While installing Windows...

Note to reader: please do not let the numbering of these posts give you the impression this is leading along some planned agenda to a meaningful conclusion. This is just me learning out loud. Lesson 1: restart after Visual Studio installed. Lesson 2:...

Redo time: The Cellular Emulator apparently doesn’t work on 64bit , so I may reinstall for that alone. Or it could be serial port availability , etc. The good news is there are plenty new options to choose from in the device emulator:

My apartment is not big enough to fit a Surface unit… maybe on the balcony, since it almost never rains around here. But for the rest of you, if you have an idea for a Mobile application, why not build it, put it out there and win a surface for your place...

As they say, there is always one more thing: But I think that is just for the SQL Server Management Studio Express, so let me get to the Windows Mobile development requirements and go back to Windows Update later. Meaning: let the download finish while...

UPDATE: If you want the Cellular Emulator (not same as Device Emulator), you have to build this on x86 (32bit). Preparing for Windows Mobile 6.5 coming soon, I have to build a demo machine for development demos, so I’m installing another “boot from VHD...

I like booting from VHD enough that I go looking for excuses to build new Windows 7 images (below photo from Lusaka – what you can’t read is that there are two special Windows 7 builds just for the project I was volunteering on): Windows Mobile...

SQL Server 2008 R2 to the rescue: new in 2008 R2 is something called Complex Event Processing, part of the StreamInsight runtime technology new to SQL Server 2008 R2. With SSNS (Notification Services) missing for a while now, it is a fantastic addition...

Somehow I missed this announcement at the World Wide Partner Conference in July: The Code^7 Contest : Code to the Power of Windows 7! Are you working on an application that fits these categories: Simplify My Life More Media, More Places Gaming Work From...

I only had like 90 seconds for that PowerShell demo, so here is a short list of what you can do with PowerShell and some follow-ups: Windows PowerShell Blog TechNet Script Center to download PowerShell scripts There is even a free PowerShell...

It is a privilege to be working on SmartCare here in Lusaka and a pleasure to be doing so from a local network. But you know me, never a dull moment: I’m using Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 to help me explore the solution, refactor and debug. Real...

The beta of TeamFuze is now available for download: if you have an Oracle DB somewhere in your org, let me know how this works out for you!

Picture it, Cape Town, 1999. Me, using Visual InterDev and Source Safe. Them, using DreamWeaver. Classic ASP was our common denominator. And never an easy pass from one to the other. Today, that changes fundamentally and forever: Graphic designers, digital...