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(For context: System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) allows provides monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, and reporting for any server workload or application, including the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents...

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express, .NET Framework 3...

The VS Database edition team has just released the golden version of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. I've included the feature list inline below, and you can download the software from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

I figure the most logical follow-on from my last post is to show how simple it is to start using WPF within an existing Windows Forms application. I set myself the goal for this post of doing this with zero code behind whatsover to avoid clouding the...

So you may know that AutoCAD 2009 uses WPF for it's "chrome" (no not that Chrome, the other chrome i.e. ribbon, action recorder and QuickView). What's probably less well known (but which you can learn about at the MIX 08 University in this session ) is...

Event Invite: User Experience Options with Microsoft - a full-day seminar If you've been reading a lot about Silverlight, WPF and all the various flavours of the Expression tools - you might be wondering about how they all fit together, and with more...

Just a quick heads up re. two partner training events (for partners in Ireland / Northern Ireland) happening in the next month, on WPF and Web Development. Follow the link inline below for more details & to register (you'll need to log in using your...

Having just blogged about the availability of the above I should mention this session from PDC , where the presenters build up an entire application in a few stages while teaching attendees how to use all of the basic features of DataGrid and Ribbon ...

I get asked about this quite a bit, so this is session from PDC is a ready-made answer :-) Over the course of the session Ian builds a Twitter client in both Silverlight and WPF highlighting the pros and cons of each approach, what code is the same and...

Some great WPF resources/previews were made available after the PDC keynote: · WPF Toolkit including V1 of DataGrid, V1 of DatePicker/Calendar, & preview of VisualStateManager (VSM): http://www.codeplex.com/wpf (The WPF Toolkit is a collection of...

Check out this article in today's Irish Independent covering the recently announced BizSpark program which I blogged about last week http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/free-microsoft-software-for-irish-startups-1532399.html If you're...

The first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit is now available. The kit includes hands on labs, presentations, and samples to help you understand how to build applications that use the Azure Services Platform. This release includes 11 hands...

The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system announced recently at PDC enable the building of next generation of software applications. To read descriptions of those features, along with screen shots from the pre-Beta version of Windows...

Last night we launched Microsoft BizSpark in The Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin. This is a global program to help early-stage startups when they need it most, by giving Software No upfront cost for developer tools and production...

Check this video out from Northern Ireland MVP Martin Woodward which scooped top prize in PDC's ShowOff Competition: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/Show-Off-and-VSIP-Passport-Winners-Announced/ In this video, Martin introduces you to Brian the...