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NLarge is now a CodePlex community project

NLarge is now hosted up on CodePlex as a community project ! If you haven't seen CodePlex, it's like "Team Foundation Server in the Sky": a place to host community projects, which hosts code, wikis, work items, and all the other great Team Foundation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:33 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

DirectX demos still get my juices flowing

On Tuesday I attended Mike Pelton's session about how to choose between WPF and DirectX for rendering 3D graphics. He began by illustrating WPF's strengths, and specifically called out data binding, the similarities between the 2D and 3D APIs, and the Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:23 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Windows Vista is Released To Manufacturing

Jim Allchin said it all with two words on the Windows Vista Team blog : IT'S TIME! Here's a few more words from Nick White. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:00 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Flickr pool for Tech Ed Europe photos - please add yours!

I uploaded my first set of Tech Ed Europe photos to my Flickr account in this Photoset . I also created a "Tech Ed Europe 2006" group pool on Flickr. Please feel free to add your own photos taken at the conference to that group. The shot to the right Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:51 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

NLarge got updated (and it would have been appreciated today)

I didn't see any presenters at TechEd Europe wield NLarge today, although some of them certainly could have used my WPF-based screen magnifier. I tend to lurk near the back of the Tech Ed presentations, since I sometimes need to duck out on official evangelical Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:23 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

.NET Framework 3.0 is completed!

It was alluded to, almost as an aside, during this morning's keynote speech at Tech Ed Europe. But let's not let today's most impressive bit of Microsoft developer news pass us by: The .NET Framework 3.0, formerly known as WinFX, has been released and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:57 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

ASP.NET Ajax (formerly "Atlas") goes Beta 2

They've just released ASP.NET Ajax (formerly ASP.NET "Atlas") in Beta 2 over on the ASP.NET site. (In fact, atlas.asp.net now redirects to ajax.asp.net .) They've changed the control namespaces from atlas: to asp: , so I need to do a bit of search-'n'-replace Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:57 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition - lightweight, free, flexible datastore - available as Release Candidate 1

I'm hanging out at the Visual Studio booth in the Ask the Expert area at Tech Ed Europe: Developers. I took a swing around the Ask the Experts area to see what's going on, and to meet some of the folks from the product teams. I met two guys from the SQL Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:32 AM by robburke | 9 Comments

TechEd Europe: Developers kicks off in Barcelona

It's time to get this blog back in motion, live from the TechEd Europe: Developers conference in Barcelona. I'm here for the week and will be hanging around the Ask the Experts section on the Exhibition floor, so if you're here, pop by and say hello. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:10 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

TechEd Europe Report: Most Memorable of the Rest (and MS Ireland Party pics!)

I've been distracted from my attempts to finish my wrap-up to last week's TechEd Europe, and in the interim, Marcus has been very eloquent , and Clare called out my favourite moment from the latter half of the week: Senior VP and CTO David Vaskevitch Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:09 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

TechEd Europe Report: Bill Hilf: Open Source, and Increasing Operational Efficiency

Bill Hilf, "Linux and Open Source: A Technical Perspective" In addition to being an exceptional presenter, Bill Hilf runs the "Linux Lab" in Redmond, which is dedicated to the analysis of open source systems. With over 50 flavours of Linux and other open Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:42 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

TechEd Europe report: Andrew Lees Keynote: Ready for Business

Andrew Lees Keynote: Ready for Business Andrew Lees' opening keynote session at TechEd Europe 2005, "Ready for Business," discussed how Microsoft innovations across the board address productivity and security challenges from three viewpoints in an organization: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:34 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

TechEd Europe about to kick off

We've touched down in Amsterdam, and tomorrow morning will see the start of TechEd Europe , Microsoft's premier European developer conference. Synchronized Blogging Regarding coordinating the Ireland blogging, all my Tech-Ed based entries will be marked Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:01 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

TechEd Europe - let's synchronize our blogging efforts!

[Aside: Have you signed up for the localized MSDN Flash yet?] There are more than 80 representatives from Ireland and Northern Ireland planning to attend TechEd Europe next week! Great stuff. Clare and I will be there as well (not to mention Ciaran ), Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:19 PM by robburke | 1 Comments
 
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