I know that when you talk to any Apple owner they always rejoice in the experience of purchasing an Apple produce like a MacPro (mmmm) alway the way down to silly accessories for the iPod. From the slick (I'm assuming people read that as cool - could...

If you don't think that WPF and Vista will enable a whole raft of new and visually appealing applications like the New York Times reader I mentioned previously then there are a couple more to add to the must-show-to-people list. Duncan Mackenzie pointed...

Windows Live Search Macros enables Joe Bloggs like you and me to create our own search engines! WL Search Macros are a great way of getting more out of the default Live search engine by allowing users to create personlised search macros which modify the...

Mike Taulty in my team posted a great diagram describing the reach/richness of Microsoft presentation technologies. This really sums up the world of presentaiton technologies and web technologies which I hope to present on for the next year or two...

Ricky Tan from the .NET Framework Client team posted a link to a great video which walks through the Windows Presentation Foundation showing all the rich UI elements from concepts to complete applications and the potential the technology gives us in creating...

Whenever I talk to customers who are huge FireFox users, they always comment on how great it is to customise the browser with extensions/plug-ins. Well, one of the great features and I'm sure a big focus for the IE team post-launch is to get us on the...

http://www.msdewey.com/ Shows off Windows Live search... (I wish I worked in Marketing sometimes)

After numerous ASP.NET 'Atlas' CTPs there is now an ASP.NET Ajax v1.0 Beta for people to play with. Looks like it has just gone live (2.50AM west-coast USA). This is quite a significant jump in the product shipping cycle and brings it one step closer...

Like some of my other team mates , I'll be at Devweek 2007 in London in the new year presenting about Expression and Visual Studio and the Designer-Developer workflow. More details about Devweek can be found on the Devweek site: TRACK 2 Designing WPF...

You blink and about a gazillion people blog about it first - damn me for spending the morning learning all about WCF! :-) Best get yourself over to the IE Blog and read all about the release for Windows XP from Dean (the GM for IE) - Internet Explorer...

I am playing around with "WPF/E" and trying to get some nice graphics for my application and using Expression Graphic Designer to create them. Now, I'm no artist extraordinaire, but I did find a set of tutorials from a guy called Henry very useful. Some...

I'm not a WinForms programmer and never really have been and have lived for several years (comfortably) in the land of mark-up and web applications. I understand the techniques and challenges many WinForms programmers will be facing when trying to get...

A nice little screencast from Nikhil Klothari which he demonstrated at the JAOO conference in Denmark. Shows off some great stuff and his blog walks through the demo app in more detail. Link to Channel9 AJAX.NET Screencast Link to Nikhil Klothari's blog...

Further to my blog entry last night about the great New York Times reader, Pablo Fernicola has a great walkthrough of all the features and design considerations that went into the product Link to New York Times Reader walkthrough Technorati tags: wpf...

Seems like Channel9 needs a holiday too and happened to be visiting London during the summer (after Imagine Cup in India). I didn't realise there was so many prominent Niners who were from the UK. Would be great to see if we could organise a get together...

I was pleased to see that Tescos are entering the software business. You see during my 4 years at university studying Computer Science I worked semi-full time at Tescos to fund my way through ( Great Guiness is expensive don't you kow :-)), stacking shelves...

A lot of people have been talking about the New York Times reader, and I guess I'm kind of slow. Well, most people who know me know that! :) But I have been playing with it for a while now and I really like the app and think it demonstrates what can be...

Since RC1 has been released and reading around internally and externally about how stable the OS it was time to upgrade the shiny machine and the Tablet PC to Vista. And all I have to say, is that "Vista has arrived" for me :-) I have now got two stable...