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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:58 PM

Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open

The team and I were having a conversation about developers (we do that from time to time). It went something like: “Isn’t it a shame that so many developers are stuck on Visual Studio 2005 when Visual Studio 2008 would be way better for them and Visual
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:32 PM

Secure your Visual Basic 6.0 investment with Microsoft .NET

[Reminder: This blog is moving to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable ] Over the last couple of months I have been working with Sarah in my group to pull together something which hopefully will help the many companies in the UK who continue to have
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Friday, January 09, 2009 10:04 AM

Last few spaces for UK MSDN events in February

I have just seen the internal report on registrations – and we are now down to the last handful of spaces in each venue. Act now if you want to come along and hear about WPF/Silverlight - London (10 th ), Birmingham (12 th ), Edinburgh (24 th ) and Manchester
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Friday, January 02, 2009 4:02 PM

My “technology themes” for 2009

I thought it would be useful to start 2009 by briefly summarising what you should expect to find on this blog over the coming months. Data : I will continue to spend time looking at what Microsoft and others are up to around working with data. You should
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Friday, January 02, 2009 3:29 PM

Are you an ISV in the UK who could benefit from a free design review with Microsoft?

You may recall that my previous role was working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help them explore and adopt the latest technologies from Microsoft. In that role I introduced something called a Technology Roadmap Review . Many years on and
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:57 AM

Anybody for some free (and clever!) Visual Studio 2008 training?

In the UK we are working with InnerWorkings to create a great offer of training to UK developers. We still have some stuff to sort out but I am hopeful that we will be able to share the details of this very early in 2009. In my previous depth role we
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:56 PM

Feedback appreciated on draft screencast on VB6 and the options to move to .NET

I am working with partners to pull together guidelines, resources and special promotions on tools to help UK companies with VB6 make the right choice around moving (or not) to .NET. This will happen early in 2009. There will be a new landing page with
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:52 AM

SQL Server 2008 for Developers - slides

Just testing out SlideShare for making ppts more discoverable. This is the deck I did for the NxtGenUG Southampton. You can also get the links from http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents . What do you think? A useful way for us to share decks as well as on
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:31 PM

UK developer events for first part of 2009 - registration open

We have been busy over the last few weeks looking at our schedule of events for early 2009. In February we will be delivering half day MSDN events at four locations covering Silverlight and WPF “from scratch” (Three locations published at time of writing
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:09 PM

Been a busy week or two - except for blogging...

I noticed my blog rate has dropped off significantly in the last couple of weeks (whilst my tweet rate increases!). It has been a combination of a few things - nearly all good :-) I have had a few days off for Chrimbo shopping and visiting family in the
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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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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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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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
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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