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VS2008 Screen cast #4 - Client Application Services
08 November 07 06:41 AM

If you are familiar with smart clients, you'll know that they allow you to use the full capabilities of the desktop including the screen real estate and connected devices as well as allowing a richer user experience. We are continuing to build on our Read More...

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Visual Studio 2008 screen cast #3 - WCF & WF
06 November 07 06:53 PM

In my last screen cast I showed how easy it is to use WCF in Visual Studio 2008. During my user group tour , I was asked whether we had done any work to integrate Windows Workflow with WCF. The answer is yes. In this screen cast you'll see how easy it Read More...

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Visual Studio 2008 screen cast #2 - WCF
04 November 07 09:24 PM

This is the second in my series of screen casts of new features in Visual Studio 2008. WCF has been out since we released .Net 3.0 in October 2006, however, with Visual Studio 2008 we introduce very good tool support for creating, configuring, debugging, Read More...

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Visual Studio 2008 - Multi-targeting
31 October 07 06:00 PM

As promised, here is the first of my screen casts on Visual Studio 2008. This one focuses on Multi-targeting which allows you to target one of three versions of the .Net Framework in Visual Studio 2008. These screencasts will generally weigh in at around Read More...

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Opening up the source of the .Net Base Class Libraries
04 October 07 02:27 AM

Today we've announced (through ScottGu) that we are opening up the source code (complete with comments) for some of the .Net Base Class Libraries. The purpose of this is to enable richer debugging support inside Visual Studio 2008 which will be released Read More...

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MSDN Flash: What Multi-targeting means to customers
25 June 07 12:15 AM

One of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 is the ability to target multiple versions of the .Net framework with your application. I briefly mentioned this my last editorial , but I thought I'd expand on it here and help you understand why this is Read More...

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Background Motion - now live!
14 June 07 10:35 PM

Over the last few months the guys at Mindscape have been dotting i's and crossing t's in order to get BackgroundMotion up and running. This has meant getting a solid hosting solution up (thanks to ZeroOne for pitching in!) as well as ensuring things like Read More...

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MSDN Flash - Focus on Orcas
27 May 07 10:50 PM

Over the last week or so our team has been planning what we will be working on over the next 12 months. One of the big deal things that is coming out in the next 12 months is Visual Studio “Orcas” – the next major version of Visual Studio. I thought I’d Read More...

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Technical Briefings - over and out!
21 March 07 12:59 AM

I've just finished the keynote presentation for the Christchurch Technical briefings . Phew! Great to have that out of the way. I can now go back to normality ;-) The last few weeks have been great in many ways. I've now done my first ever keynote series, Read More...

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