Which in turn means less blogging and less email - so apologies in advance if you are one of my partners and you ping me an email over the next two weeks. I am working 4 days out of the next couple of weeks - but these are labs days and customer meetings...

A number of my early adopters have been asking me about the impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. This is my attempt at a succinct answer. Business customers will get Vista in Nov 2006. Vista will include WinFX. At the same time...

WF allows you to create workflows of activities. We have been careful to make WF very extensible - including writing custom activities (e.g.MySendMail activity) and entire libraries of activities. I just came across my first example of a complete library...

We have made available a CTP of the next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office. VSTO "v3" is designed to help developers take better advantage of those new capabilities in Office 2007, as well as to provide additional infrastructure to ensure .NET...

This series caught my eye - a webcast per day from engineers in the Microsoft.com Operations Debug Team to drill-down on the very technical topic of “Debugging in the Real-World.” Check out www.iiswebcastseries.com . Monday, March 27th: Determining...

A few weeks back I was asked to talk to a Java ISV about how they might move to .NET - more specfically target both the Java platform and .NET. It had been a couple of years since I had talked in this area (too much SQL Server 2005 work), so I did a search...

We launched a new site a few months back focused on security - and tbh I was pretty underwhelmed by it - a lot of links, very little helpful navigation and virtually no content. BUT.... I am very pleased to say that the site has now been refreshed and...

On Wednesday we run a Community Day for UK ISVS focused on Vista and WinFX. Nick and I really enjoyed the day - full house, lots of questions (even some we could answer!) and lots of interest in WinFX. Thanks all. Slides are with the events team now ...

I have just pulled together a short article on getting started with WinFX and Vista Development - outlining how to setup a development machine, discussing go-live, beta vs CTP and giving pointers to learning resources. It is on the main menu (bottom link...

I previously blogged on the go-live license for the January CTP . Many folks have asked me if the same applies to the February CTP. The answer is no. Additional testing went into WCF and WF for January to get them to a Beta 2 level. This is not true for...

We are putting a huge effort into ensuring that applications that run on Windows XP will run on Windows Vista - but at the same time Windows Vista represents many significant changes and therefore there will be applications that do not run fully (or at...

I have become a big fan of a simple file synchronisation service of late - http://www.foldershare.com (We have acquired it and it is now part of live.com - just!). This great little service has made it so easy for myself and a colleague to collaborate...

At the weekend I set up a Toshiba M3 to run Vista with an intention of doing Windows Workflow Foundation development on it. The setup of Vista went without issues as did installing Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and Feb WinFX runtime and VS extensions...

Last week I was presenting at Devweek on Analysis Services. As part of that I created a cube which I reported against using: - The browser in AS - A report generated in Report Designer - An Excel sheet using PivotTables - A web page saved from Excel...