The local Imagine Cup software design finals are over once again. I was lucky enough to be involved, this year in a much more relaxed capacity doing "demo dolly" with my team mates showing the latest and greatest in developer tools and platforms, and...

I've had a couple of email exchanges with customers who are playing with Visual Studio Orcas and Expression Blend and facing challenges with incomaptibilities. The problems arise when trying to open Blend created projects in Orcas and Blend not being...

...just after I installed 1.1.2 on my Macbook Pro. Very annoying but good to see that it now supports Vista out of the box. The detail on what's new: Support for Windows Vista (32-bit) Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime...

Our team are toying with the idea of doing a podcast about 'stuff' on 'stuff' that interests developers in the UK. I've done a little searching around but haven't really found the definitive list of hardware/software to start a podcast. We want to do...

I get the Parry photography experience... (I'm the dot at the front looking at the camera, everyone else is looking at me...or asleep :-)) MSDN Roadshow 2007 Comes Home Technorati tags: martin parry , mark johnston , msdn roadshow

A 70 meg video isn't the nicest thing to download and have no feedback from the UI when you are looking at my WPF/E video player so I changed the code to use a Downloader object. // Create downloader object var control = sender.getHost(); var downloader...

Just spotted on Frank's blog that a bunch of AUS Microsoft people attended a conference and bought drinks. Maybe the UK team should follow suit...but who has the better beer?! ;-) The interesting thing for me was the link to Softies on Rails , which...

I posted back in November about Camtasia and Vista RTM not being the best of friends and Techsmith working on beta releases to fix it. Well, thanks to the wonders of the blogosphere, Betsy at Techsmith dropped me a mail to let me know that they have just...

I've been messing around with my WPF/E video player and adding more functionality. You can look at my introductory tutorial here but have started to implement more features such as Play/Pause, a progress bar, mute and a timer (volume slider isn't there...

Due to the limitations of hosting my blog on the mammoth blogs.msdn.com and wanting to write WPF/E demos that I could show other people, I got myself some hosting space with www.discountasp.net It does everything that you would expect an ASP.NET hoster...

I haven't had much original content on here in a while so I thought that should change by putting up some short tutorials on building stuff using "WPF/E". And the obvious one to start with is a really simple video player (RSVP for short). For an introduction...

During today's MSDN event in London I showed to two audiences this really great example of integrating ASP.NET Ajax and WPF/E: It integrates ASP.NET, Ajax, WPF/E and Web Services to provide a very compelling way of viewing albums brought down from Amazon...

Just noticed on the Expression site that there is an RC available. Downloading it now and will have a play but it's getting really close to production quality as I haven't had any show stoppers or niggling quirks in a while. Download Expression Blend...

During the event Jon Harris and I delivered on Expression and designing great user experiences (I had the easy job of being the dev :-)), I introduced and demoed some "WPF/E" examples that are available today on the web and my own coding example. I had...