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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...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 5 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 2 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 3 Comments    

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

C#3 features in .Net 2.0
02 November 07 11:01 PM

In my presentation today at bootcamp I alluded to the fact that some of the C#3 features can be used in .Net 2.0. Daniel Moth (a developer evangelist in the UK) has done a couple of blog posts that have more details. Specifically he mentions that the Read More...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

Filed under: C#, .Net

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...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 3 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

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

Day of Code will rock!
08 August 07 05:51 AM

Kirk and the guys have done a great job of promoting the Day of Code and with the fantastic speakers they have, why not?! One of the sessions I'm looking forward to is Tony Goodhew talking about how we build Visual Studio - that will be something different Read More...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

Filed under: .Net, User Groups, Community, Code Camp

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

VB6 Migration Training with the VB Program Manager
02 August 07 10:43 PM

If you've got a VB6 application that you've been considering upgrading to .Net, we've got help for you! On Thursday August 16 at Microsoft House we will be hosting a VB6 to .Net Migration workshop. The workshop will help you understand how moving to .Net Read More...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, .Net

MSDN & TechNet Flash: Get Ready for Tech Ed!
02 August 07 02:46 AM

Tech Ed is almost upon us. In less than two weeks, Tech Ed New Zealand is underway. This year’s event will be awesome - not just because we've worked hard to make sure that the best speakers are at Tech Ed, but also because the content and events that Read More...

Postedby dburling | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, .Net, TechEdNZ

Day of Code
31 July 07 08:30 PM

I've been bad to my good community peoples and haven't posted about this (sorry guys), although Nigel did (thanks Nigel!). The .Net User Groups are having a day of Code the day before Tech Ed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland. This is a free event Read More...

Postedby dburling | 4 Comments    

Filed under: .Net, User Groups, Community, Code Camp