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January 2006 - Posts

How we laughed....
Last weekend some I went along to The Bearcat Comdey Club in St Margarets (TW1) with some friends. I'd been there a couple of years ago and enjoyed it but you never know whether you'd just been lucky with the acts that night. Well we weren't disappointed; Read More...
New Microsoft Expression Product CTPs available
Today we announced new CTPs (Community Technology Previews) of Expression Interactive Designer (Sparkle) and Expression Graphic Designer (Acrylic). I'm hoping the "other" one ( Expression Web Designer ) wont be too far away. Here's the blurb: Expression Read More...
PDC 05 Sessions Website (in case, like me, you missed it)
While I was searching around for the script debugging session from PDC (see the end of this post ) it struck me that it might not be well known that many of the PDC 05 sessions are available on the web. So in case you missed it, you can find them here Read More...
Script Debugging with Visual Studio
First off, let me say that you have lots of different options when it comes to script debugging. Here I'm going to describe how to debug script running in IE using Visual Studio. And specifically, how you can use Visual Studio to help you debug the JavaScript Read More...
My Gadget Doesn't Work!
In my earlier post about creating gadgets , I mentioned Visual Studio debugging and what to do if your gadget doesn't work. Let's start with the latter and then move on to the more general case of how to debug script in Visual Studio... What should I Read More...
Strange things people do...
I'm in a little bit of a rush to get to the MSN office in London as I'm attending a user group meeting there tonight; Ian Griffiths will be talking about C# 3.0 . I just wanted to post a couple of links I was shown last night by my girlfriend. They made Read More...
UK MSDN Nugget Videos - an easier way to find your way around
I hadn't realised that MikeT has already blogged on our attempts to make it easier for people to find UK MSDN Nuggets they're interested in. Mike, I thought we were doing a worldwide synchronised launch like Visual Studio / SQL Server / BizTalk or Xbox Read More...
Upcoming UK MSDN Events
Click here to find out about all upcoming events Here's a selection of a events in the pipeline for the next month or so. DevWeek is a great conference with a broad spectrum of speakers and tracks including .NET, Avalon / Indigo, ASP.NET, Architecture Read More...
Building a Live.com Gadget (contd)
I can't believe I'm writing this in FrontPage but there you go (not because I don't like FP but it's an unlikely tool for authoring a blog entry). If anyone has a recommendation for good blog editing software please let me know. My simple requirements Read More...
Building a Live.com Gadget
For those of you that missed the announcement (shame on you!), Microsoft announced Windows Live and Office Live back in November of last year: Designed to deliver rich and seamless experiences to individuals and small businesses, the new offerings combine Read More...
Xbox 360 - What a waste of time!
[Firstly let me wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2006. My blog has been very slow recently - I'd like to blame the arrival of my Xbox 360 but as it only turned up last week that's not going to work. I've been busy doing lots of "stuff" Read More...
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