The UK MSDN Roadshow dates have been announced, so now is the time to get them in your diary. Registration is not open but the locations and dates have been set: - Nottingham: 21st February - Glasgow: 5th March - Harrogate: 13th March - London: 21st March...

The Panel is a new site/community/buzz thing all about stuff that you look at on Windows Vista and the web. It is going to be a 'place' for Microsoft to showcase interesting applications, websites, gadgets that take advantage of all the great new stuff...

All our team uses Camtasia Studio to record our MSDN Nuggets (super exciting screencasts on MS technology!) and we all recently moved to Vista RTM which caused us all to face the same frustration and problems wth recording our nuggets - they just don...

Over on Bad Language Matthew Stibbe has interviewed two of my team mates, John and Jon , who work in the Developer and Platform group looking at the luverly-jubberly desgin tools talking about Usability and Accessibility (I'm not sure John and Jon are...

Developer Division in Redmond are piloting a new program which enables developers and ISVs,etc to get access to the most frequently asked for Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes without having to do anything more than fire up your browser of choice (beats speaking...

Well, all I seem to talk about these days is that I am going away on holiday for a granduoso 3 weeks to Australia (maybe I should meet up with other DPE folks like Frank or Dave). The countdown is on now with under 2 weeks til we fly off - can't wait...

Michael Swanson has released a free converter to take SWF to XAML converter. "Finally! After months of tinkering around in my spare time, I've managed to assemble a relatively useful tool called SWF2XAML . The first version of this tool allows you to...

In this session we'll look at how developers can apply effects to controls through the use of some simple XAML mark-up. (duration approx. 10mins 37secs, published on 14/11/2006) Link to streaming version Technorati tags: wpf , screencast , msdn , nuggets

This nugget looks at animation in WPF and how we can animate almost any property of any element. (duration approx. 11mins 22secs, published on 14/11/2006) Link to Streaming version Technorati tags: wpf , screencast , msdn , nuggets

Brushes form a fundamental component of WPF and how graphical elements are displayed to the screen. This nugget will introduce Brushes and how to use them withing WPF controls. (duration approx. 17mins 42secs, published on 14/11/2006) Link to Streaming...

So, I've started recording MSDN Nuggets and am going to focus on WPF. I've recorded 4 so far and they are now live. Disclaimer: I'm new to this game so they are a bit shakey but hopefully still useful :-) In this session we'll look at how developers can...

Yesterday, I travelled north to visit Birmingham Computer Science department to give a guest presentation on WPF to a large lecture theatre's worth of students. I think that will be my 4th presentation there in 3 odd years so it's kind of a regular gig...

This is very cool. You have to experience it to understand how great this app is... http://labs.live.com/photosynth

Head on over to http://local.live.com and check out the new 3D functionality (does require installation of a small plug-in - ~500K). Once you have it installed take yourself on a 3D stroll around the sights of London like the Eye or the Tower.

The team in Seattle have just announced that Mix07 will be happening on 30th April through to 2nd May next year, in sunny (and cheesy) Las Vegas! A bit of blurb about the conference: MIX is Microsoft’s premiere conference for web developers,...

Coding4Fun has just relaunched with a great new look and feel. If you want to write code and do it outside of work (or inside of work, if your boss is so accomodating!) then this is a great site for inspiration, projects and sample code! And my good friend...