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Beginning .Net development?
28 November 07 06:19 AM

In the deluge of email from the last week or two from corp around VS2008 (there was lots of excited emails with information about the new product in it), I missed one about the Express suite. The Express team have taken the Visual Studio Express site Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.Net, Visual Studio, .Net, Web

MSDN Flash - Here comes the wave!
27 November 07 06:03 PM

Last week Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing . If you have a MSDN Subscription, you can download it now. Visual Studio 2008 will hit store shelves in late Jan/early Feb. In spite of the fact that Visual Studio has only just been released, Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Community, Windows, MSDN

Visual Studio 2008 RTMs - Get it now!
19 November 07 06:46 PM

Yup.  This morning (PST time) Visual Studio 2008 RTM'd.  Its already on MSDN, so go get it.. Soma has the full announcement here .  Scott has a list of top features on his blog (along with the announcement of course). Oh - this also means Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, Screencast

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, Screencast

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, Screencast

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, Screencast

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer

BootCamp 07 - November 3-4
07 September 07 02:00 AM

You may have already noticed the murmurings of another code camp - just weeks after the last one. This Code Camp is being organized by the Christchurch crowd ( Peter is the front man for it) and will therefore be the first Code Camp ever in the South Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Community, Code Camp, Windows, SQL Server

Open XML Sample coming your way
08 August 07 01:09 AM

Last year I was speaking on the Open XML file formats in Office 2007. Initially I wasn't thrilled to be speaking on the subject, however the more you dig into this area, the more compelling this file format is. The developer story around Open XML is particularly Read More...

Postedby dburling | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Office

Launch date set
12 July 07 12:17 AM

At the World Wide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the date for the Visual Studio 2008/SQL Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 launch. These products will be launched at an event on February 27 2008 in Los Angeles. Note that the SQL RTM date will Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net

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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Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, MSDN

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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Filed under: WPF, AJAX, Visual Studio, .Net, Developer, Web

VB6 to .Net resources
27 March 07 01:33 AM

I sent an email to a VB6 developer this morning to help point them to some of the resources we have available and thought I'd share it here. If you are a VB6 developer and have not touched .Net you might like to look at some of these resources and use Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, Visual Basic, .Net

Adding ASP.Net AJAX to existing websites
20 February 07 11:17 PM

I'm sure this has been posted a thousand times on other blogs, but I thought I'd put it up here anyway. If you want to add Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX (v1.0 RTM) to an existing website assuming you've installed the RTM edition you can do it by adding some Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.Net, Visual Studio, .Net, Web