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October 2006 - Posts

Nabaztag
Okay, I'm curious about this thing. Something about it makes me think it's a very clever device with lots of opportunties. On the other hand, the other side of my brain screams "gimmicky" and can't really see the point of it. I'm not the most creative Read More...
Nurburgring Again
With reference to my trip to the Nurburgring back in June, and my comment about seeing a camper-van tackling the 'ring, Ryan sent me a video . Now I know it wasn't them I saw that day because it wasn't monsoon season when I was there. But it's entertaining Read More...
Word 2007 Content Controls & Custom XML Parts
A while back I posted on a quick and dirty helper app I'd written to attach custom XML parts to a Word document and set up the bindings on the content contols in the doc. Well Matt from the Word team happened to read my post and sent me a mail about an Read More...
Website Debugging in Visual Studio on Vista
I've seen this question asked a few times now (and of course I ran into the issue myself a while back). "I'm running Vista and using VS to debug a website I've built. The problem is, none of my breakpoints seem to get hit." Well you're running into some Read More...
ASP.NET AJAX Beta Released
Today sees the release of the first ASP.NET AJAX beta after a series of ASP.NET Atlas CTP releases. This also means that ASP.NET AJAX has split into separate "core" and "additional" features for the 1.0 release. If you've been to any of my recent presentations Read More...
What's new in MOSS 2007
The latest MSDN Flash Newsletter carries my (very potted) article on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 . I find it very tough to write something like that in so few words (we have a very strict word limit and a very strict editor ). Anyway, if you're Read More...
I have my own linkid on ms.com
Maybe I should just retire now? http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5598307 Maybe I should have been retired years ago? Last weekend I cut a hole in the gate in our garden so our cat could get in and out and then drove 75 miles round the M25 to look at sofas Read More...
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