PsiSpace by Simon Middlemiss
Tales from the front line.
Hosting a TFS Build Controller on Windows Azure and connecting to Visual Studio Online
Moved...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 02/11/2014
Skype for Windows Phone (beta) has shipped
The product I’ve been working on for the past 6 months has shipped to beta on the Windows Phone...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 02/27/2012
Personal Kanban
We’ve been getting serious about using Kanban recently so I thought I’d try and take the concept...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/23/2011
Eye On Earth update
So, we’ve just released an update to Eye On Earth that adds in Birdseye support, the new style Bing...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 07/19/2010
AmbiguousMatchException : Why extending Silverlight through sub-classing might result in this error.
Earlier this week we spotted we had a problem with a Silverlight application that has been live for...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 05/07/2010
Microsoft Consulting Services Solutions Development Blog
The practice I belong to in MCS, Solutions Development, has started its own blog at...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 05/07/2010
Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC1 on XP SP3
I came across an interesting issue with VS2010 RC1 on XP SP3 the other day. I'm on a customer site...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 03/02/2010
Access denied to TFSTemp during a TeamBuild TFS Get operation
If you ever see something like the below Done executing task "Get" -- FAILED.Done building target...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 01/07/2010
Team Build and Azure
I’m a big fan of Team Build, it keeps the project rhythm going and without it there is no real way...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 05/23/2009
Please sponsor me for a walk I didn't know I was doing!
So, My wife sent me an email about 6 weeks ago about the sponsored walk she’s doing next weekend to...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 05/05/2009
Unify for Expression Blend 2
Since the Blend Add-In framework came to light I’ve written a couple of utilities that are useful...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
Publishing WCF web services for Silverlight.
As a self-confessed crayon wielder I tend not to get involved in the washing machine technology of...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 11/19/2008
Using ASP.NET to help Fibromyalgia sufferers.
It's been a really long time since I did any ASP.NET development (about 2 years) and a lot really...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 06/23/2008
Calling all UK Developers - We're hiring!
The group I work in, Delivery Developer, are, along with others, hiring. We are looking for...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 03/18/2008
Tommy the Tungsten Robot
Through a friend of mine I have learned that someone I used to know at university has released a...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
Don't install the latest BBC iPlayer update.
FYI I just started up the BBC iPlayer hoping to get the latest episode of Torchwood and it very...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 01/31/2008
BETT 2008
So one of my New Year's resolutions was to blog more. This is something that is remarkably hard to...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
Diamond
A friend of mine from university, Dr Mark Basham is a data acquisition scientist at the...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 01/23/2008
T5M : A cool Silverlight 1.0 site
www.t5m.com I've been working on this site for the past 3 months and it went into beta last night....
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 12/01/2007
Check-in fails due to locked file when no files are locked on TFS
We've seen this issue a couple of times with the project I'm on currently. When I saw it the cause...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 10/25/2007
Step in a little deeper
Yesterday Microsoft announced that it is releasing the source code for .NET Framework libraries...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 10/03/2007
Back at Cowes
So it's the end of Skandia Cowes Week 2007, and the fact that I'm only blogging now means it's been...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 08/11/2007
Living with a Tablet
I've had RSI for the better part of 3 years and have been trying to find a way of reducing the...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 07/14/2007
Windows/SQL/VS 2OO8 Ship dates announced
Somasegar has just posted about the launch of the next generation of Microsoft server technologies....
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 07/13/2007
Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
I spent the weekend struggling with that error. It occurs on the final page of the Windows Vista...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 06/26/2007
Acropolis
Today a new technology framework was announced, codename 'Acropolis'. It's a UI framework for WPF...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 06/04/2007
WPF Keynote Anthem
Take a look at this video. It's a collection of all of Tim Sneath's portfolio of great WPF...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Q AND A
Here's some key sentences that I think sum up the QandA session. Michael Arrington asks : What about...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
How far can Silverlight go?
As usual Microsoft are going to be working closely with the community to figure out what exactly...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Silverlight on Windows Mobile
So they just showed off Silverlight on the WM6.0 with streaming video!
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Iron Ruby
So something that will come as a relief to Ruby developers is that the .NET Framework on the browser...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Dynamic Languages
So .NET supports loads of languages already. IronPython you'll have heard of, next on the list is...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Pushing the Browser
So Beau Amber, CEO of Metaliq is talking about what he's been doing in Silverlight. He's gonna show...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Top Banana Code
Oh and the code for the Top Banana app is available for download, I'll post the URL as and when...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Cool Effects
So there's a flight booking web application that Scott is playing with. He's extending it with...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Complete Compilation Support
The Visual Studio environment now compiles your clientside CLR code and syntax checks it, something...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
ASP.NET / SilverLight integration
Scott's now demoing ASP.NET and WebServices integration with SilverLight. Just Add a WebReference as...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
SilverLight Screencasts
Check this resource out from Tim Sneath
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
SilverLight and Blend
So Scott is now showing off how Expression Blend integrates with SilverLight. He's taken Visual...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Scott's Demo
So ScottGu is demoing Silverlight, he's running on a clean XP machine, no .NET framework, no media...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
.NET on the browser, some highlights
Full .NET cross browser, cross platform CLR 300 - 1000 x performance over JavaScript Build .NET AJAX...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Expression Studio, Blend 2 & More
So this is really exciting, a CTP of Blend version 2.0 is available for download now. It targets...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Adding to the MIX
Unfortunately I'm not in Vegas, but I have been keeping up with the keynotes and some of the other...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Clearing the Application Cache
I've been having some issues of the past few days where, having successfully built our application,...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/11/2007
DDD 5 : Call For Speakers
Developer developer developer is a community driven "un-conference" that is hosted at the Microsoft...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/03/2007
Expression of feedback
Soma Segar announced earlier today that the Web and Blend tools from the Microsoft Expression Suite...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/03/2007
An introduction
I am a 'new hire' at Microsoft UK. I started on the 26th March 2007 as a consultant in MCS...
Author: Simon Middlemiss - MSFT Date: 04/02/2007