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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:06 PM

I’m back…and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 shipped

We had a superb holiday last week in Yorkshire and amazingly it was reasonably dry which was handy as the house has a tiny beck behind it which apparently can become “huge”. I am still catching up on stuff but I was pleased to see SP1 shipped last week.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:35 PM

Updated the list of events I will be attending/delivering sessions

Just a quick note to say I have updated my “ Eric will be appearing ” page. October is looking busy :-) 2nd MSDN Event Reading http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb905504.aspx for all MSDN events 7th MSDN Event Manchester 14th MSDN Event Birmingham 16th
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:14 PM

Two tools I MUST find some time to try – Typemock and NDepend

I have had my eye on two tools for sometime. Both tools look extremely useful. Both tools have a very different focus. Both tools look hot! Regrettably – both tools continue to be ignored while I spend time getting myself up to speed on the basics :-(
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:11 PM

My first concept map – LINQ overview

Well – my first using a tool inspired by Udi . Took…maybe 5 minutes. Very sweet. Clearly this could be exploded out into much more detail – but I have real work to do :-)
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:46 AM

Microsoft Sync Framework released

Ok – I will be honest, I forgot it hadn’t actually released (It is tough keeping on top of the staggered releases we have at the moment!) This is a shameful cut and paste from http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2008/08/06/top-new-features-in-sync-services-for-ado-net-v2.aspx
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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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Friday, July 25, 2008 2:46 PM

How come nobody ever told me about LINQPad?

I need to know so much more about LINQ than I currently do. What I wanted was a “Query Analyser” for LINQ – rather than keep writing code inside Visual Studio. I can’t tell you how excited I was when I discovered LINQPad .  It is written by Joseph
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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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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:31 AM

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

I have been playing with tools to convert C# over to Visual Basic - given how many samples only exist as C# :-(. I posted a detailed list + recommendation over on Goto 100 .
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:11 PM

The more I learn, the more I don't know...

Or to put it another way - my head is about to explode... Ok - In real terms I  am on day 9 of my new role and my return to being a developer. I have learnt the following: I am very much enjoying looking at code again I am currently terrible at writing
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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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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:53 PM

Three good reads on REST

Since 2002 (and .NET Framework 1.0) many of us have digging into Web Services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe. In 2005 I started to get concerned about the complexity that WS-* was bringing, when ultimately in many scenarios I
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