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MSN Messenger Activities are cool!

Back at the PDC, I wrote about the Messenger Activity API contest . They're mid-way through the contest now, and I stopped by to check out some of the applications that have been submitted. Here are some cool ones: Let's Meet , Language translator for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:48 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

LINQ PDC Preview for Visual Studio 2005 RTM available... already!

Amazingly, there's already a drop of the LINQ PDC Preview that works with the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005. You can get it here, on the LINQ home page . LINQ, the Language INtegrated Query Project, is still a future technology of course, but for Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:55 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

How to automatically uninstall Visual Studio 2005 Beta versions using the Automatic Uninstaller tool

For those of you who installed any pre-RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005, including Beta 2, I highly recommend running the Automatic Uninstall Tool. Before Installing Visual Studio 2005 It’s recommended that you install Visual Studio 2005 on a clean Read More...
Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 1:44 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

So you want to install all the WinFX bits from PDC yourself.

So you're hoping to explore the pre-release WinFX goodies - WPF, WCF and WWF - from the comfort of home. Do you need the PDC DVDs ? Do you need an MSDN subscription ? Do the stars have to be aligned ? No , no , and... well, no... although astral alignment Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 3:39 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

The WinFX hands-on labs in Dublin are going to be great.

I've been working this week with our incredibly dedicated lab staff (especially one Antonio Palacios) to make next week's Dublin-based WinFX Hands-On Labs unmissable. The Avalon (WPF) team, among others, have given us the go-ahead to present through the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:45 PM by robburke | 0 Comments
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Team Foundation Server Beta 3, and the roadmap to TFS release

For those of you working with early releases of Team Foundation Server, Rick LaPlante offers the complete roadmap from today's feature-complete Go-Live release of TFS, Beta 3 , through to both the upcoming Beta 3 Refresh , and the subsequent final version, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:44 AM by robburke | 5 Comments
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PDC 2005 developer summary and pre-release dev links: To Vista, and beyond...

PDC 2005 was a conference focused not just on today's technologies, but also the roadmap to Vista and beyond. The distilled message is clear: .NET the foundation for everything that's coming. Below are some of the developer announcement highlights, with Read More...
Posted Friday, September 23, 2005 5:32 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Precomputed Radiance Transfer, DirectX 10, and other awesomeness

Hey Scott -- How's it going, man?! I'm still here at the PDC in Los Angeles. Remember the last time you and I were at this convention centre? Participating in the graphical extravaganza known as Siggraph 2001? Yeah, those were the days. There were two Read More...
Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 4:19 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

MSN Messenger Activity API - an ideal platform for interactive communication apps

Ever wanted to build an application that could reach 170 million users of MSN Messenger? The Messenger Activity API is just your ticket. Activity applications , which plug into MSN Messenger, are ideal for interactive communication scenarios - not just Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:04 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

A smorgasbord of tasty PDC tidbits and photos!

The internet is abuzz with news from the early proceedings here at the PDC in Los Angeles. Keep up with all the announcements at the MSDN PDC site . I posted my first set of PDC photos up at my MSN Space . Most of the shots are from the 2 keynotes. I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:29 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Microsoft Ireland PDC Party, Tuesday@6PM. In other news, Los Angeles braces itself for developer overdrive!

PDC is kicking off in Los Angeles in a matter of days, and as with TechEd Europe, I'll be down at field level, armed with laptop and digital camera, doing my best to record a play-by-play for you here on the blog. For those of you like me who are attending Read More...
Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 3:41 PM by robburke | 1 Comments
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