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Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:40 PM

WPF Datagrid is here – well, nearly here…

I posted in July on DataGrids (or rather the absence of them) in WPF. While I was on holiday last week, this snuck out - The WPF Toolkit on Codeplex . The WPF team have split their work into: Toolkit – what they know they will release Futures – what they
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:52 PM

Manic Miner in Silverlight

Richard popped me an email about his latest “project” - a Silverlight implementation of Manic Miner which he has developer with Pete McGann. This is a very polished game but the cool bit is – they will be discussing how they developed it at NxtGenUG Coventry
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:48 PM

C# and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

As I dig into Visual Basic a bit further I to realise what I have been missing as a (lapsed) C# developer. A great example is some of the goodness wrapped up in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll. It is a standard part of the .NET Framework and… is absolutely
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Monday, July 28, 2008 12:20 PM

UK MSDN events now scheduled

Topics have been chosen, venues confirmed and details posted on our events site . We will be showing up at 6 cities through Sept and October with a lot of the content focused on Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Me – I will be delivering the “data bit”
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:16 AM

Great WPF application?

Today I set aside sometime to watch some “random podcasts”. Ok, not that random in that I decided they either had to be about Entity Framework or WPF. The WPF episode I chose turned out to be a great choice – a real world line of business application
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:59 AM

ReMix UK 08 Speakers announced

I will be attending ReMix but currently no one needs me to speak (phew – that would require a lot of learning!). The good news is there are some great speakers now lined up. Mike has called out some of the dev track speakers already but I wanted to quickly
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:38 PM

Visual Basic samples for WPF book - Applications = Code + Markup

Once again, Ged Meads work on WPF catches my eye. A big thanks to Ged, Young Joo and Evan Lim for converting the C# samples over to Visual Basic for Petzolds book on WPF (Only 3 left in stock at Amazon UK - lets get those sold as well - but be warned,
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:20 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan
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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:46 PM

Silverlight bits and bobs - beta 2, full trust, mobile, showcase

Silverlight continues to be a hot topic in our meetings with ISVs. The following is a fairly random set of links that have been helpful in one way or another in those architectural discussions: How to make a full trust Silverlight application running
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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:05 PM

ReMix UK 08 - Brighton 18th and 19th of September

No agenda, no speakers - but you can register now as an early bird :-) I am certainly going to be involved in my new role. Hope to see some of you there. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/default.aspx
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:49 PM

Silverlight Deepzoom in the wild

Silverlight Deepzoom has come up in a number of ISV meetings through June - and it is sparking new thinking. Check out these to see if you too will be inspired to come up with a great use for Deepzoom. http://www.laguna-coupe.com/   http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:31 PM

Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:38 AM

No Internet!? Camtasia to the rescue

I am glad I decided to attend Software Architect 2008 the day before my session. Why? Simple - there is no Internet access in the room and I planned to show a number of demos which require access. These included Woodgrove Bank Silverlight demonstrator,
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Monday, June 02, 2008 3:52 PM

Maybe see you at Software Architect 2008?

This week I am presenting at Software Architect 2008 on the Wednesday . I really enjoyed presenting/attending this conference last year and I am looking forward to spending most of the next 3 days at the conference. If you should see me around, do say
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Friday, May 30, 2008 9:49 AM

Some bits and bobs - Silverlight, Hello World, Wallpaper

Just a few randoms which I have come across over the last few weeks while heads down on other stuff. Enjoy! An unexpected (by me anyway) Silverlight fan - TIBCO "This is our strategic direction for rich Internet applications when it comes to our
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