Paul Stubbs

31 Days of Silverlight – Week 1 Recap

pstubbs — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:15:38 GMT

Jeff Blankenburg is posting daily Silverlight tutorials for the month of July. Here is a summary of the 1st week. July 1st-5th Day #1: Mouse Events in Silverlight Learn how to handle mouse events such as MouseEnter , MouseLeave , MouseLeftButtonDown ,...(read more)

Daily Silverlight Tutorials in July

pstubbs — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:47 GMT

Throughout the entire month of July Jeff Blankenburg will be posting a new Silverlight tutorial each day . Be sure to check back everyday to see that day’s tutorial. http://jeffblankenburg.com/2009/06/thirty-one-days-of-silverlight.aspx...(read more)

How to access SharePoint List data with Visual Studio 2010 and WPF

pstubbs — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:08:19 GMT

Steve Fox walks you through the process of building a WPF application using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to access SharePoint 2007 List data. Using the newest version of Visual Studio, C#, Linq, XML, and SharePoint web services to pull a List from the server...(read more)

Download XNA Game Studio 3.1 with Avatar Support

pstubbs — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:59:21 GMT

XNA Game Studio 3.1 is available now for download . Although v3.1 has a number of cool new features like XBOX Live Party support and video playback. I think for me the most exciting feature is support for Avatars . This will allow you to render 3D models...(read more)

Wii Researcher comes to Natal

pstubbs — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:31:00 GMT

Johnny Chung Lee who is famous for his Wii-mote hacks has been working on Project Natal. Project Natal on the XBOX 360 is going to be a game changer. Here is an interview with Johnny on Channel 9. Read Ina Fried’s detailed reporting on this....(read more)

What Do Geneva, Dublin, Stirling, Velocity and Madison Have in Common?

pstubbs — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:32:33 GMT

Geneva, Dublin, Stirling, Velocity and Madison are all code names of upcoming Microsoft products and technologies talked about at TechEd 2009. (which one is not a city?) Bruce Kyle has pulled together links to all of these and more in his recent blog...(read more)

How to get Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1

pstubbs — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:23:40 GMT

Today Soma announced that VS 2010 and .Net FX 4 Beta 1 has shipped. If you are a MSDN/Technet subscriber you can download right now. The rest of us can download the bits on Wednesday. Subscriber download page for VS 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=18:370...(read more)

How to get a copy of Office 2010 technical preview

pstubbs — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:03:04 GMT

More details have been coming out of TechEd 2009 this week. One of the cool announcements is that the Office 2010 technical preview is just around the corner. This will be closed release. If you were lucky enough to go to TechEd you are first in line....(read more)

SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server better together

pstubbs — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:41:06 GMT

Today the SharePoint team announced that SQL Server will be a prerequisite for SharePoint 2010. It was also announced that SharePoint will only come in the 64-bit version. So that means 64-bit SQL (2005 or 2008) and 64-bit SharePoint. Also SharePoint...(read more)

Looking to keep up with SharePoint?

pstubbs — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:05:13 GMT

SharePoint is a huge product. The SharePoint community is one of the biggest and most active. So one question I get frequently is “How do I keep up to date with what’s going on.” I have found that using Alltop has been a huge help. This site aggregates...(read more)

Where to Download SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

pstubbs — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:21:25 GMT

Today the SharePoint team announced that Service Pack 2 is ready to go. SP2 rolls up all previous bug fixes and patches. SP2 also includes new features to improve performance, availability and stability. SP2 also prepares your SharePoint farm to make...(read more)

Ramp Up your SharePoint Developer Skills

pstubbs — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:17:55 GMT

Are you a developer looking to expand your skills and marketability with SharePoint? SharePoint has a large surface area which can be intimidating for people just starting out. Take this free online SharePoint course to get up to speed quickly. ...(read more)

SharePoint SP2 adds support for IE8

pstubbs — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:06:03 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 is just around the corner. One of the many improvements is support for Internet Explorer 8. The Office team blog announced today that the Office SP2 and the documentation will ship on April 28th. http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx...(read more)

Generate Online Training Courses with Silverlight and SharePoint

pstubbs — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:45:45 GMT

SharePoint is a great collaboration platform for training and online courses. Steve Fox posts an example of using SharePoint with a rich Silverlight UI to generate and consume online training courses. Check out some of the screen shots at his blog. Silverlight...(read more)

SharePoint 14 now officially SharePoint 2010

pstubbs — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:21:46 GMT

Office 14 and SharePoint 14 have been given their official product names, Office 2010 . There will be a Beta later this year with RTM coming in the first half of 2010. See the official interview for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.msp...(read more)