My name is Finbar Ryan and I am an Escalation Engineer in Customer Services and Support at Microsoft. I’ve been at Microsoft for nearly 14 years (where did the time go?) and since 1998 I’ve been supporting mostly IIS. I also support other things like...

Today's article is provided by Phil Winstanly , an Application Development Manager at Microsoft. Often found on twitter causing trouble (and getting into bother) via @Plip . Loves code, loves learning and loves helping developers get better at what...

I asked Hadi Hariri from JetBrains to give an Introduction to ReSharper for developers that might not have come across it before, here’s what he had to say: We go to a lot of conferences and despite many users knowing our tools, there are still many that...

The Jist: Entity Framework 4.1 is out now and you can download it here . Those of you that read Scott Hanslemans blog or listen to Hanselminutes (if you don’t you should) will know that Scott was less than pleased with the name " Microsoft ADO.NET...

I just bought Pocket C# for 99p from the WP7 market place after my colleague  Darren Strange recommended it. At first I thought it was going to be a code snippet tool, but it’s actually a phone sized IDE. Not only can you write code, you can run...

Timeglider is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline – great for history projects, project planning and much more. Check it out here .

Here’s this month’s content – you can get your mitts on the full version here . Business Connectivity Services: Consuming External OData Feeds with SharePoint BCS Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft Office and SharePoint helps you bring...

A few weeks ago in the MSDN flash, I asked to get in touch if you used Azure. I got lots of email from people talking about their projects and I will discuss a few of them over the next few months. I like wine, a lot, so this little case study really...

Back by popular demand is the DDD Speaker Training Day on Friday 27th May 2011 at UWE in Bristol. This is a free day of training on giving presentations and improving your public speaking skills. Topics covered will include:- · How To Explain Absolutely...

We’re pleased to confirm the full agenda for next week’s UK Tech.Days. Simply click the links below to download the agenda(s) of your choice. We look forward to seeing you in London! Microsoft and the Web ( Monday , Fulham Broadway Vue...

The Internet Explorer Platform Preview Guide for Developers provides an early look at the developer features coming to the next version of Internet Explorer. By using the documentation and samples in this guide, web developers and designers can prepare...

[This post was x-posted (albeit manually) from my own blog at http://bit.ly/mikeormond ] If, like me, you weren’t lucky enough to be at MIX this year, chances are you’ve got a bit of catching up to do watching session videos . I always dread trying to...

You’ve heard it mentioned a million times – now find out all the juicy details. Lots of resources below: Microsoft officially unveils Mango; Hundreds of improvements on the way (WindowsPhone team blog) Watch the press conference (Windows Phone Newsroom...

If you want to know more about the technical details of the IE10 Platform Preview then take a look at this great documentation I just stumbled upon. It outlines all the new features that have been added. Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3) support Flexible...

Wander on over to Mike Taulty’s blog to explore this series of posts detailing Mike’s early rough notes on initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta. Multiple Window Support Markup Extensions Implicit Data Templates Ancestor Relative Binding Silverlight...

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If you came along to the Windows Phone tracks at Tech.Days bright and early on Tuesday or Wednesday you’ll have seen Brandon Watson’s great keynotes, available here very soon. Looks like Brandon’s been a busy guy - in this new Channel 9 video series,...

One of the announcements over in the US this week at TechEd was the vision for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in the next version of Visual Studio. Jason Zander, corporate vice president for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at...

MSemploy exclusively supplies certified IT professionals and developers to the Microsoft Partner Network. Find out more about the MSemploy folks. Here are this week’s top jobs: SharePoint Architect London – City £Competitive Microsoft Gold Partner Senior...

Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team, presented a great introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch at last week’s DevDays event. In this demo-heavy session, you will see, end-to-end, how to build and deploy a data...

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[This post was x-posted (albeit manually) from my own blog at http://bit.ly/mikeormond ] If you’re from an iPhone / iOS background and you’re looking at Windows Phone 7 for the first time, there are some useful resources on http://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges...

As well as the new Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (download now here ), you’ll find updated official documentation in the What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools topic in the MSDN Library. Among the fun: 22 new code samples   and 10 new...

This first release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. As with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 we will continue to bring additional capabilities...

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