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Launch - Building Connected Systems
03 April 08 10:01 PM

As promised, I've uploaded the slides and code from my Connected Systems talk from the Launch events up to my skydrive, so if you are interested, you can grab them. The sample code includes the code to extract data from Oulook, extend your ASP.Net Role Read More...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio, Developer

Slides - Overview of Visual Studio 2008
22 November 07 02:55 PM

Since I've probably done this talk to exhaustion now, I thought I would post my slides for all to get at. I've still got a few presentations left to do on this topic, once I've done them I'll try and post a screencast of the entire presentation and put Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Visual Studio, Community, Developer, Designer

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

SQL Server for PHP driver CTP released
23 October 07 03:47 AM

If you happen to be building sites in PHP and want to take advantage of SQL Server, we've just released a drive for SQL Server 2005 for use in PHP sites. This is not final code, but it is scheduled for release in February. In the meantime you can download Read More...

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Filed under: Developer, SQL Server, Web

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

Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 - talk and demo
01 October 07 10:49 PM

We are kicking off a series of events for anyone interested in getting an update on new tools, technology and platform advances. We are calling these "Microsoft Unplugged". Nathan kicked these events off last week with an overview of Windows Server 2008 Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, Developer

Collaboration - we all have something to share
18 August 07 08:58 AM

Brenda was recently quoted in the Fryup on ComputerWorld with regards to the story behind SuperHappyDevHouse New Zealand. “I wanted an event that would get people who don't currently work on open source, but want to, to come along and just do it. After Read More...

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Filed under: Community, Developer

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been released
26 July 07 10:10 PM

Hot off the press. We just released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Soma has all the details . Check the Channel9 Video too. This is a very cool product - I've been learning about some of the new features this week. I'll be doing a user group tour in the Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Developer

Into WPF & Silverlight? Local community coming your way!
06 July 07 05:34 AM

There is lots happening in the community and this is great to see. The latest is that Nas Khan is setting up a XAML based user group in Wellington. She's put up a blog post outlining her current thinking. The long and short of it is that she has a few Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Community, Developer, Designer, Silverlight

Sharepoint User Group - Wellington
25 June 07 07:28 AM

Chandima has posted the details of the Sharepoint user group that is on in Wellington on Wednesday night. The Sharepoint user group is one of - if not the biggest Microsoft oriented user group in New Zealand that I'm aware of. If you are interested in Read More...

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Filed under: Office, User Groups, Developer

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

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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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.Net, .Net, Gadgets, Developer, Windows