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May 2008 - Posts

Expression 2 now available on MSDN

After my post on the release of Microsoft Expression Studio 2 , I received a few questions asking about its availability on MSDN…. I can now confirm that it is available there for download. I definitely recommend anyone interested in We, Silverlight and Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:13 AM by pbarone | 0 Comments

XNA presentation at the MSDN roadshow in London

In a post some time ago I mentioned going to the MSDN Roadshow in London and while there I was interviewed about the XNA demonstration we had over there. I just found out that the video of this interview has been published on http://www.ilivetocode.com/games Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:44 AM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008

Since yesterday it is possible to register for Microsoft Professional Developers Conference which will be held in Los Angeles from October 27th to 30th. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, will deliver the keynote session and in the preliminary Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:56 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Would you like to build software for Microsoft?

Miguel Llopis a Spanish undergraduate student in Computer Science, who is currently an intern in Redmond, will hold two Live Events to explain how Microsoft Development Centers work and which opportunities are available to apply for development positions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:10 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 will support more file formats

Listening to a lot of customer feedback, the Office decided to add additional file formats to the current 20 in Microsoft Office 2007. So from the first half of 2009 the following formats will be available: XML Paper Specification (XPS) Portable Document Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:33 AM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Vista Squad: UK based user group for all Microsoft Vista / .NET 3.5 and Silverlight is meeting next Tuesday 27th of May

I will be joining the event ( more info and registration here ) which will be hosted in Microsoft’s London office near Victoria Station. At the event Marcus Tillett will talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Aaron Parker will give an introduction Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:00 PM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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New blog: OneNote and Education

One of the best and least known components of Microsoft Office is OneNote . Released initially as part of Microsoft Office 2003, OneNote is an excellent note-taking application. Some of the guys in the OneNote team just launched a new blog dedicated to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:48 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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More Silverlight Tutorials

Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond just published a series of Silverlight 2 screencasts. You can access them all at this website: http://www.silverlightscreencasts.com Of course you will need Silverlight 2 Beta 1 to see the screencasts (and to try out the samples Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:27 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments

Touch Wall

At Microsoft CEO Summit 2008, Bill Gates demonstrated the “Touch Wall”. It is a similar concept to Microsoft Surface (the touch table which got so much media coverage lately) but it is based on a complete different technology ( and looks like it will Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 11:31 AM by pbarone | 1 Comments
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Cool use of Silverlight, Deepzoom and Virtual Earth

The guys at Liveside.net just published a very interesting post on how to mesh a Silverlight Deepzoom app into a Virtual Earth map. Here is the final effect (to see it you will need to download the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime ) If you consider that this Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 3:51 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Pro Photo Tools just released

Ok, looks like my blog is turning in an announcement for new software one but… this is too good for me to ignore (and hang on for one possible very cool more later today). We just released the Microsoft Pro Photo Tools , which is an application which Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 5:54 PM by pbarone | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Expression Studio 2 has just been released

We just released Expression Studio 2. The suite includes Expression Web 2, Expression Blend 2, Expression Design 2, Expression Media 2 and Expression Encoder 2 and works seamlessly with both Visual Studio 2005 AND Visual Studio 2008. The team committed Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 10:29 AM by pbarone | 5 Comments
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