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Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:12 AM

UK MSDN Flash, 26th November 2008: Azure Services Platform

Hello all – this is just a test post. I’m interested in creating an RSS feed for the UK MSDN Flash . Editor's Intro Hello all, Last time we did a special Flash focused exclusively on the technologies of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) . Normal
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:07 AM

10 “IT” things about me

I was putting this list together for a presentation. It is scary when you start checking dates :) First PC – ZX80 in 1980 (then BBC Micro , Atari 520STFM and Macintosh LC ) First computer job... FORTAN in 1986 Wrote most LOC on... Unix using C Favourite
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Monday, November 24, 2008 9:08 AM

MSDN Flash Poll: When was the last time you wrote code in COM?

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Friday, November 21, 2008 4:13 PM

Say hi at DDD7 if you see me (and a piccy of me!)

Saturday 22nd is DDD7 day in Reading – and I will be there in my official capacity as “the Microsoft person” – which is great as I missed out on registering in my capacity as “a dev in the UK who wants to learn from smart folks”. I would love to chat
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:08 PM

MSDN Flash Poll: Which of the technologies covered at PDC 2008 are you most interested in finding out more about?

Unfortunately our hiccup with the Flash polls continues – thankfully, there is Zoho :-)
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:39 AM

Didn’t we do well! (That would be developers in the UK at PDC08)

Have you got 6 minutes to spare? Then read on… The UK (and the work of my group) was very well represented at PDC08 in the Keynotes. I was just watching the Day2 1st Keynote with Scott Guthrie . Move to 94minutes in and you will see Nick Lansley of Tesco.com
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:02 AM

First published book on ADO.NET Entity Framework

If you are following my blog or watched me present, you know I believe that Entity Framework will be a significant technology for .NET developers (even if EF v1 at times is incredibly annoying!). However we have been hampered by the lack of books available.
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:30 AM

Stackoverflow.com best practice for website errors

This is how you tell people your site is having an issue :) Once again www.stackoverflow.com (That would be Jeff and his small team) demonstrate they know how to build a great site. Well done folks – I love what you have done. In case you were wondering,
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:12 AM

Unbelievable! MIX09 US is only 4 months away!

With PDC just one week old I wake to find an email about Mix! Vegas, March 2009 .
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:22 PM

Microsoft releases yet another programming language - Introducing Small Basic

Wow. I love this. This brings back all the great memories I had (even of the bugs) of how I first got into writing software using BASIC on the ZX80. My kids have already given it a massive thumbs up. First a big thanks to Vijaye for creating this in his
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:22 AM

November 19th – opportunity to hear about .NET 4.0 from the GM of Visual Studio

Jason Zander will be attending the Vista Squad user group in London to discuss the 2010 road map for all things Visual Studio "Rosario" and .Net Framework 4.0 related Link and sign up: http://vistasquad.co.uk/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/10/16/vista-squad-2010-a-rosario-odyssey-19th-november.aspx#comments
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:15 AM

Q&A: When can I rely on my customers having .NET Framework 3.5 SP1?

The current situation is roughly: The majority of PCs have a version of the .NET Framework A fair number of PCs do not have the .NET Framework A fair number of PCs have .NET Framework 1.1 A lot more PCs have .NET Framework 2.0 A lot of PCs have .NET Framework
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Monday, November 03, 2008 4:55 PM

And the winner is… LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

In 2001 we first demonstrated Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology for .NET – ObjectSpaces . However it has taken 6+ years to get to the point where we have released an ORM. Actually we released two. The release of Visual Studio 2008 in November
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Monday, November 03, 2008 2:54 PM

One last chance to see our current MSDN event … in Leeds, Nov 19th

It just occurred to me that there is only one chance left to see MikeT and I discussing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 new features. This is a slightly unusual one as Blackmarble are hosting us and doing a session in the morning on Microsoft CRM before we cover
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Monday, November 03, 2008 2:12 PM

VB6 Applications – I’m taking a fresh look at this area on Goto100

Over on http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100 I will be taking a fresh look over the next few weeks at the question “What should we do with our VB6 applications?” I plan to explore the options, tools and resources available. You should expect few new “pearls
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