IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

This week we are running Windows Server 2008 training with some of our early adopters in the UK. I promised to share some links that we discussed during the training. Enjoy. WPF Sample Applications Family.Show - a complete WPF solution with source code...

Firstly a thanks to all those who attended my session on Wednesday and to the good conversations that followed during the rest of the conference. Most of my session was on a sample application DinnerNow - and hence it was good to see that of the 70 or...

Server Core is the small footprint version of Windows Server 2008 - around 1GB footprint on the disk. With that comes a lot smaller attack surface etc. But originally it did not include IIS7.0. Last week we announced at Tech Ed that IIS7.0 would be included...

At my session at Software Architect 2007 I plan to talk though the architecture of DinnerNow. Building on DinnerNow 1.2 , we now have a 1.3 drop . 1.3 has a major rewrite of the services piece as well as some (minimal!) documentation created using Sandcastle...

Apologies for the late notice - but if you are a developer or architect working for an ISV in the UK and you happen to be attending http://www.software-architect.co.uk/ this week, then please contact me if you would like to meet up for a chat during one...

Since I switched to Vista and IE7.0, I have been unable to use IE to access my FTP sites. This has proven to be extremely annoying as my FTP requirements are pretty simple, yet I have been forced to use full blown FTP tools. Yesterday I had one of those...

I know I was. Which is why I love these two posts from my colleague Daniel. .NET Framework 3.5 vs 3.0 vs 2.0 - the "red and green bits" http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/net-framework-35.html Visual Studio 2008 in a nutshell http://www.danielmoth...

Every so often I come across a single slide that does a great job of explaining an important technology. This is a good example (especially if you see it with the build). Something I have always wanted (but alas never created) is a collection of such...

Mid may we did a day on Software + Services where I presented Successful SaaS: What Will it Take? Just noticed the slides are now available. MS Strategy for Software + Services Technology Innovation and the Changing Software Landscape Software as a Service...

The Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Team Blog has announced about the Visual Studio 2008 Shell . The official line is: "If you create software development tools, you’ll want to consider building on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. A streamlined Visual...

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we are working with a number of UK ISVs around the broad topic of BI - spanning Integration Services to Data Mining. Most of the ISVs have been using their own machines but a couple have been using a MS internal VPC...

On Monday I gave a heads up on a live Webcast about Katmai (I hope some of you found it useful). On Monday we announced that Katmai would be known as SQL Server 2008 and posted lots of new information up at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion...

If your plans for this evening were to wash your hair, then think again. At 8pm UK time you can tune in to a Tech Ed webcast of Dave Campbell’s Katmai Overview presentation at: TechNet Webcast: The Next Release of Microsoft SQL Server: Overview (Level...

Last week while I was enjoying a few days in Paris, we announced the Surface , a new line of consumer products. The video is well worth a watch to see just how far Surface changes the end user experience. I especially liked the piece on the history of...