Adventures In SoftwareLand

UPDATE 2 : We will be supporting VB.NET for Project Glidepath . Content with VB.NET examples will be available in the next few weeks. If you are a VB.NET developer we also welcome you to submit your application to participate in the EAP. We...

Today, Project Glidepath got covered by Mary Jo Foley at Microsoft Watch! You can read all about it here .

Gnomedex 6.0 was great! Met lots of new people and caught up with many long-term relationships. I also shot 3 videos that will show up on Channel9 shortly.

Tomorrow and Saturday I'll be attending Gnomedex 6.0 in downtown Seattle. Among other things, I'm going to be carrying a Channel9 video camera so if you'd like to be interviewed look me up or don't be shy when I ask you if you'd like to be on Channel9...

Registration is now open for the Lang .Net 2006 Compiler Symposium which will be held July 31st through August 2nd on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. We welcome technologists from all platforms (CLR, Java, etc.) who want to come and share...

Second update: If you are going to install on Windows Vista you must: Run the MSI installers from a CMD box which has been launched via "Run as Administrator". You do this by finding the CMD box icon, right click and select Run as Administrator...

I'm on the hunt for a blogging client application that supports the MetaWebLog API newPost method and, this is the important part, actually generates the enclosure structure as part of the post. I'm working on creating a tool that supports posting podcasts...

Ah to wake up to find out I'm on the front page of Channel9 . :) I did a simultaneous video/podcast with Charles Torre about a month ago and it was posted last night. Now, just to be clear, I know I'm not the only Microsoft podcaster. The "Microsoft...

UPDATE: Vegas is overcast outside but the Venetian hotel is always blue skies with wispy white clouds inside. I'll be starting to night to podcast from MIX06. You can, as always, find these podcasts on Channel9 as The Mix06 Buzzcast . ============...

As many of you who read this blog know, I'm the Technical Evangelist here at Microsoft responsible for reaching out and engaging the MicroISV community who build software for Windows. Our definition of MicroISV is the 1-10 person, self-funded software...

In just a little over one month (March 13-16) Microsoft will be hosting our annual Compiler Lab. This year we'll be featuring some new and exciting technologies such as: LinQ (data-as-first-class-citizen integration) Dynamic Languages and Scripting...

Two interviews have now been posted on The MicroISV Show. First up, an interview with Gavin Bowman of V4 Solutions and then an interview with Bob Walsh, Managing Partner at Safari Software and author a new APRESS book " MicroISV - From Vision to Reality...

Well, not actually "naked" but the party celebrating Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's new book Naked Conversations was absolute awesome! It was a wonderful time and it was great to re-connect with old friends and meet new ones. The book is a great...

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Welcome to a new podcast show I'm doing on Channel9, The MicroISV Show . First off, what is a MicroISV? We, at Microsoft, consider a small software company, typically numbering one to three people, a MicroISV. The largest majority of MicroISVs also...

This just in. . . a page dedicated to porting VB6 apps to VB.Net Now that the .Net Framework will be included in each copy of Windows Vista, porting from VB6 to .Net is the last big pain point I've heard from the MicroISV (Shareware) developers...

Time for the traditional Yule Blog! Sitting here in front of a blazing fire (both literally and metaphorically) it's time to appreciate 2005. . . It's been quite a year here in SoftwareLand. . .(and over on the podcast as well!) In February the...

In less than two weeks (November 3rd) I'm headed to Brussels, Belgium for the European Shareware Conference . I expect that I'll have RTM copies of the C# and VB.Net Shareware Starter Kit to give away (and they'll also be available via MSDN) and, I'm...

One of my fellow evangelists, Ben Riga, is going to be presenting WinFX at the SDForum Windows SIG meeting next week in Palo Alto. This was always one of my favorite user/developer groups when I lived in the valley and Ben is a great presenter so don...

Today I'll be posting 13 more podcasts that I did in the "Big Room" at PDC05 . In retrospect it was quite an interesting process to see something like PDC "behind-the-scenes". Many people did a lot of hard work to make it easy for attendees and...

I've done 11 interviews, mostly with PDC05 attendees, in the last 24 hours and they're now all live on Channel9 . Enjoy!

As I mentioned just find me at PDC05 and you can get on the Buzzcast Here's a picture of me in my Buzzcasting gear so you know who you're looking for: I look forward to meeting and talking to everyone!

Arrived late last night and scouted out the LACC today. It's going to be an absolutely awesome PDC05 I'll be around the PDC keynotes, breakout sessions, BOFs, Ask-the-Experts and Track Lounges starting Tuesday morning through Friday morning in a...

Tonight when I got home from work I was once again struck by the extent of the suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina and our response to it. As a Microsoft person, and in particular a Microsoft person working on our PDC which starts next week, I've been...

Buzzcast #13 (T-6 days) features Thomas Lewis and David Romig talking about TCSC's .Net 2.0 based CSI support application. Note: That's CSI as in Crime Scene Investigation.