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Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off
11 May 09 09:28 PM
If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store – 40% off which means you can bag Expression Web (upgrade) for just under £60 for Read More...
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Expression UK Newsletter launches - and every issue includes a free gift....
01 December 08 08:21 PM
I love working on Expression stuff, it gives me the opportunity to work with inspirational designers and developers who care about user experience and design in software. The launch of the Expression UK newsletter is to let you know about all the great Read More...
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Last.fm hack day event in December
27 November 08 04:34 PM
Sponsored by Codeplex (aka Microsoft and all things developer + cool + open sourcey) I love last.fm and it will be interesting to see what the ‘hackers’ come up with on Sunday 14 December at the Truman Brewery. I know there are going to be some of my Read More...
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Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats
21 November 08 12:49 PM
On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day Read More...
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Visual Express Developer Center in Silverlight
16 March 08 09:05 PM
http://www.microsoft.com/express   Features include: Animated landing pages Interactive menus to explore by product or interest area Interactive product tours for each version Read More...
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innerworkings - Train your developers to code (properly)
07 December 07 11:12 AM
I spent some time talking to Bob and the guys at innerworkings about their product and service - it is a developer training interface which integrates directly with Visual Studio and gives developers (ones that write code for a living rather than students) Read More...
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Silverlight and me appear on Partner TV (again)
17 October 07 07:10 PM
The second shorter video ( first one is here ) with James Senior and I talking about Silverlight and what you can achieve with a few of the stock demos and me messing about with my old Mac and showing cross-platform debugging of Silverlight. Partner-TV: Read More...
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Microsoft UK Student page goes live - built on Silverlight
13 July 07 01:32 PM
I haven't been part of the development but it's good to see this finally go live. We've been hankering for a 1-stop-shop for students wanting to see what Microsoft has to offer for ages and finally have it at: www.microsoft.com/uk/students It highlights: Read More...
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Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime
24 May 07 02:40 PM
I was talking to my new teammate, the honorable Dr. Andrew Sithers (not sure if he honorable or not, but thought it sounded good), about Silverlight and it's ability to harness the power of dynamic languages inside Silverlight 1.1 (the one with .NET in Read More...
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WindowsClient.net community for rich-client/desktop developers
14 May 07 11:06 AM
Ian Moulster has the scoop on WindowsClient.net launching - it is a new site focused at developers working on rich client applications (run on desktop). It's a really nice site that combines the two worlds of WinForms and Windows Presentation Foundation. Read More...
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End to end WPF demo - Family.Show
30 April 07 04:05 PM
Vertigo Software have just shipped Family.Show (family history explorer - stuff that my Dad would dig really!), a complete end to end reference example of building an application using Windows Presentation Foundation The Source Code is available for download Read More...
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Free web application hackers workshop coming up
10 April 07 04:41 PM
SPI Dynamics are running a web application hacking workshop at Microsoft UK campus on the 26th April and it is FREE for anyone to attend. Thankfully, it's not free for wannabe hackers but is all about helping web developers secure their applications and Read More...
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Workaround for Visual Studio 'Orcas' March CTP and Blend not playing together
29 March 07 01:00 PM
I've had a couple of email exchanges with customers who are playing with Visual Studio Orcas and Expression Blend and facing challenges with incomaptibilities. The problems arise when trying to open Blend created projects in Orcas and Blend not being Read More...
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Expression Blend tutorial videos
15 February 07 10:01 AM
Martin Grayson , a UX guru in the Microsoft Services part of our business has worked with a colleague in my group, Richard Godfrey to put together these excellent video tutorials of working with WPF (from a real world project perspective) and Expression Read More...
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Vista Sidebar Gadget Resources from Conchango
08 February 07 06:09 PM
As a nice follow on to my post yesterday about the Universal Music uMusic gadget I spotted on Rich Griffin's blog an excellent entry with a comprehensive set of resources on coding a gadget and deploying in a production environment: Vista Sidebar Gadget Read More...
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