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How to buy Visual Studio in New Zealand
13 May 08 04:36 AM

We often get asked "how can I buy Visual Studio and MSDN?". And since last time we posted on this was back in 2005 I thought we should update this guidance. If you look at the bottom of the MSDN NZ Visual Studio page, you'll see a section called Read More...

Postedby dburling | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio, MSDN

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

VS2008 blog on Geekzone
03 March 08 02:36 AM

Given that March is a big month here at Microsoft New Zealand due to the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Mauricio decided to get a bunch of developers together to blog about some of the cool new features in Visual Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, Community

Microsoft Launch Events in March
10 December 07 09:15 PM

I got asked yesterday when we are having our launch events for Visual Studio 2008, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008, so I thought I should put the current dates out so you can pencil them in. We are going to be visiting Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch Read More...

Postedby dburling | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio, Community, Microsoft, Windows, SQL Server

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

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...

Postedby dburling | 2 Comments    

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

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...

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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...

Postedby dburling | 3 Comments    

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...

Postedby dburling | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio, .Net, Developer

Visual Studio 2008 Shell and VS2008 SDK
03 October 07 09:08 AM

I've had a couple of customers ask about using the Visual Studio Shell and given I've just stumbled upon some info about it, I thought I'd share it. Firstly the Shell will be a free component of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK when it ships. Initially it was Read More...

Postedby dburling | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio

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