Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Have a fantastic New Years Eve this evening and a successful and fun 2010 (The above is the North Yorkshire Moors in 2009 as it should be – sheep and snow) Thanks to everyone who read...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink A few Visual Basic 6 links I want to “get down on paper” – lest I forget :-) John Fuex describing the process he and his company went through to solve the C# versus .NET dilemma when...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I have been meaning to get these “out of my head” for a little while now. Christmas Eve seems a good day to do it on :-) Dave Thompson (Microsoft UK) did a good summary post of adding...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink When we first announced that MSDN Premium subscribers and BizSpark members would be getting free Azure hours we also stated that they would be restricted to development and testing...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Back when I was an Application Architect working with UK ISVs I spent a lot of time helping companies understand how to architect multi-tenanted applications. However, I have never...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Nope, I’m not referring to the famous TV series . I am referring to the “ data-as-a-service ” offering we announced at the PDC. What it is: Dallas is “ data-as-a-service ” offer from...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [22/12/09: I have been unable to get the podcast hosted on Channel 9 due to problems with the publishing platform. But Michael did a great job so I wanted to get it posted. Hence you...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I talk to Hadi Hariri about the differences between Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development - and why Hadi chooses BDD every time. Hadi wrote an article on BDD...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink A great find… I listen to a lot of podcasts but I realised they were all exclusively focused on Windows and .NET development. I decided to look further a field and discovered this absolute...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Soma has announced that we will be extending the Beta period of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 . We will be adding a Release Candidate with a broad “go live” license, which...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink For fun I thought I would have a look at which of my posts in 2009 were my most popular. The results were quite surprising. By number of pageviews (which tends to favour 1st half of...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Phil and I discuss the real time web and consuming real time data from a Silverlight client. “Real-time data can be consumed in a number of ways but there are a few techniques that...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [16th Dec 2009 – have spotted a small final missing } in the Office XML sample code. Will get that updated with any other changes ] The UK MSDN Flash developer newsletter contains great...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I have just completed a first round of updates to my popular blog post from September Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more Pop a comment here...

  From   to   … Dear Father Christmas, I would like… for Christmas 2009 And lest we forget, in Christmas 2008 we wanted (click View Results) P.S. Don’t forget to follow my team twitter http://twitter.com/ukmsdn for 2010 (oh, and me http...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Last year I spent a lot of time trying to help companies understand their options for VB6 code, including creating this centralised resource to Secure your Visual Basic 6 investment...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I have been producing a regular (regular for me anyway!) podcast on development topics for a good few months now. I have been hosting it on a small (and cheap) UK podcast hoster http...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with David Robinson, Program Manager in the SQL Azure team and discuss... SQL Azure :-) We cover the "reboot", large...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink This podcast was recorded at TechEd Europe in November 2009. I get a chance to sit down with Mike Flasko, Program Manager in the Data Services team. We had both presented on Entity...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with the two lead developers of the Pex team Peli de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann to talk about Code Contracts . Code...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink We are getting closer to being 100% live (and billable!). Spotted this today – a status dashboard .   Related Links: UK Windows Azure Site Start working with Windows Azure

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Totally new to me is the Developer Readiness Program (found via Scott Findlater – top blog!). It contains some really good stuff. You could decorate an entire room with this! (or maybe...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Last night (3rd Dec 2009) I was lucky enough to be speaking at my local (and most excellent) user group http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/ . There were plenty of mince pies and lots and lots...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink It is already December 3rd, we have 4 trees up around the house (courtesy of the local woods and a recent storm) and tonight I will be presenting on Entity Framework 4 at the Christmas...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [NOTE: Shows 12 and above are not currently available on ITunes while I finalise the switch of podcast hoster] While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with...