Great to see the BritBots event! (You know, where you use MSN Messenger or whatever to respond direct to user direction. You still don't? Not even the Encarta bot ( encarta@botmetro.net ). Well, give it a go: ask it a question) Anyway, with all of...

The Windows SDK contains a lot more information on the WinFx technologies, and some cool samples to help you get started. There are some holes though. In particular, we've been making use of validators for our custom activities to ensure that they...

So little time, so much to blog about. I'm still working hard on an HPC project on which we're using quite a lot of WinFx - WF and WCF - to provide some of the services around the cluster. Two news items which caught my eye and related to both are...

Just saw this on MSDN at Martyn Johnson's blog. Sharepoint Webparts for the World Cup!!

I've been pretty busy over the past couple of weeks working with some HPC (High Performance Computing) bits and pieces. Windows Compute Cluster Server ( http://www.microsoft.com/hpc ) is approaching, and it's been interesting to see the capability...

I've always been a fan of Redgate and their tools were very useful in my last job - in particular we used SQL Compare a lot. I also used SQL Compare in Chapter 8 of the book to automate the database integration tasks in NAnt as part of the continuous...

So, Duet will be shipping soon. This was previously known as Mendocino and allows Office (primarily Outlook at this time) to integrate with SAP in a much better way than could be done previously. I've worked in a Microsoft/SAP environment so I'm all...

A test post to see if my MSDN ( http://blogs.msdn.com/maholmes ) cross-posting is working! I'll be using http://www.marcmywords.org as my main blog but post over here too!