Just in case I forget to do it later in the day I'll do it now (must remember to set my OOF as well). I'm off to a (fingers-crossed) hot and sunny place for a holiday. I'll be back in the country on 6th December and will pick up things from there. Who...

The DevDiv Hotfix Public Availability Pilot Program has just been brought to my attention. This pilot gives you access to the most frequently requested VS2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support. I spent a long time working...

To get intellisense in your Ribbon XML - see this entry in Eric Carter's blog . Saved me a lot of hair-pulling this morning... Technorati tags: microsoft , office , ribbon , intellisense

I confess that I really like Expression Web. It doesn't do everything I'd like, and it doesn't magically solve all my CSS mysteries (and believe me, I create more than my fair share of CSS mysteries) but it gives me a whole lot more options than I'm used...

Get them while they're hot . Well, pencil them in your diary at least. Registration is not open yet but the following dates and locations are confirmed: Birmingham Nottingham - 21 February Glasgow - 5 March Harrogate - 13 March London - 21 March Reading...

Some also asked me at last night's event whether it was possible to host the KPI webpart on pages other than dashboards. While I was prerry confident this could be done, I promised to check in the break and promptly forgot. Apologies for that! I tested...

Many thanks to all those who made the trip out to the Microsoft Campus in Reading last night to attend the Office Server Developer Features session. Our new laptops seemed to do the trick and the VPCs flew along (at the same session we delivered at the...

This is the sort of web app I wish I'd had the inspiration to create. While it doesn't really work around our office (tea runs are not part of the culture and many of us work from home much of the time - as I am now - so while I'd like someone else to...

Last night I blogged about my TravelNews demo site and I've already had requests for a version that works with the latest ASP.NET AJAX bits. So here you go . That download link now gives you the option of downloading the Atlas July CTP version or the...

I get so many requests for this code after I've done an ASP.NET AJAX session that I decided I had to find some way to host sample code (rather than set up a separate file transfer for each individual request which was getting a bit painful). So with a...

My colleague Paul Foster recently took on a new role as an "Enthusiast Evangelist". Now TBH (don't tell Paul) I don't really know what an enthusiast evangelist is or does. But to be fair, that's probably a true reflection of my perspective on many of...

Yep, Office has released to manufacturing and .NET Fx 3.0 is available for download . These are both huge milestones for us and as soon as Vista RTMs, it's a triple whammy! Boy am I looking forward to the launch activities when we get to show off all...

Yep, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2 has now released. It's a tad embarrassing as I haven't yet moved to Beta 1 but in my defence I haven't been feeling very well. Hopefully, I'll have a Beta 2 experience later this week... Technorati tags: asp.net , ajax

I recorded a few introductory ASP.NET AJAX Nuggets a couple of weeks ago and I'm pleased to see they've now gone live. Of course it's just my luck that the ASP.NET AJAX Beta was announced the day after I recorded these nuggets so things have changed a...

Here's a great post that I found via Daniel's blog about Vista shell features that didn't make the cut. As Daniel says, every post on Shell Blog looks interesting, but the features post is a gem. Technorati tags: vista , shell

Since my post of last night , I've stumbled across the " Nabaztag Cruise Control plugin ". From the site: "The rabbit will make a clarinet noise every time Cruise Control runs a build, and then speaks a line or two to let you know what has happened. The...