Microsoft Western Europe are running some free training in May and June on developing with the UC platform. Location: Microsoft Innovation Center Barneveld Nijverheidsplein 21a 3771 MR Barneveld The Netherlands Date: May 8 th -9 th , 2008 Location: Microsoft...

One of the reasons I applied for this job was to broaden my horizons a bit...Well be careful what you wish for ;-) Within the last 5 working days, I've had meetings / workshops / conversations / played-with the following: VB 6 -> .NET migration...

VSTO 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008 makes it incredibly easy to extend the office ribbon, and write managed code to add new functionality. A good proof of this from my recent experience was a simple add-in I wrote which combined Information Rights Management...

Dave recently uploaded his launch demo videos, and the IIS 7 one is particularly interesting if you're doing web development - check out the below for an overview of php on IIS 7 plus the really nice diagnostics / failed request tracing. Thanks...

I mentioned this previously , and now the date has been finalised - it's 15th May 2008, in Microsoft Ireland. I've included the agenda below, for more details of the exact location, time and how to register, please contact me directly (and let me know...

You can now download the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit which covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the...

Check out this set of Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets for keeping up to date with the latest content on Channel 8 , Channel 9 , Channel 10 , TechNet Edge , and Mix Online . Features: · Automatic rotation of latest articles on the site allows you to quickly...

Zoran Jovanovic, Technical Lead with Dell in Ireland was one of our local VS 2008 launch heroes . Watch the below video to hear Zoran talk about the benefits of multi-targeting in VS 2008. BTW, the video was recorded at the end of February 2008...

Frederic Meyer, Team Lead with Dell's Global Build Automation Team was one of our local VS 2008 launch heroes . Watch the below video to hear Frederic talk about the experience in migrating from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008, and his favourite feature in TFS 2008...

Peter Buckley, Test Team Lead with DeCare Systems Ireland was one of our local VS 2008 launch heroes . Watch the video below to hear Peter talk about how his team use VS 2008 Test Edition to test both Java and .NET web applications within DeCare. If you...

I recently received a question about opening SQL 2005 SSIS packages in VS 2008. So the situation is that for SSIS you use BIDS (Business Intelligence Dev Studio) which is based on Visual Studio - what it provides is a subset of the VS functionality. If...

Are you an ISV developer in Ireland / Northern Ireland? I'm arranging a free 1 day course on the essentials (dev + BI), so drop me a line via the Contact link on my blog if you'd like more details...Some pre-requisities but nothing onerous i.e. you must...