Robert Burke's MSDN Weblog

Calling all Third-Level Students based in the Republic of Ireland! Microsoft UK is sponsoring the Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge , and has offered us the opportunity to enter 3 Ireland-based projects into the UK pool. That makes this your chance...

I'm delighted to invite all developers based near Galway, Cork and Belfast to visit Clare Dillon's blog, which now includes announcements of some of our upcoming events that will take place all over this island in March. I'll be involved in both the MSDN...

Just in time for Valentine's Day (as they put it), the DirectX team is giving us a little love with the DirectX 9.0 February 2005 SDK Update . The list of updates and improvements to the SDK, included at the link, are far too numerous for me to enumerate...

As the week winds down, here a couple of intriguing .NET-related things I've unearthed. The Heavens Above : Here's a link to an ASP-based astronomy site that, among other things, can visualize in real time where the International Space Station is positioned...

Judging from your feedback and the kind responses I received today, yesterday’s Introduction to .Net Hands-On Lab was a great success! If you'd like, you can download the course notes here. Here's a quick recap of the day. In the morning, we used Visual...

Just a quick reminder that at tomorrow evening's INDA Event, Ingo Rammer will be discussing Distributed Applications at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin. Looking forward to seeing you there! .NET Remoting, COM+, Enterprise Services, ASMX Web Services,...

Following on from December's MSDN briefing (An Introduction to .NET), I am writing to invite you to a .NET Intro Hands-on Lab in Microsoft’s Atrium building in Sandyford on Tuesday, 8th of February. Over the course of the day, you’ll have an opportunity...