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Windows Live for Developers: The Good, the Intriguing, and the Way to get Started

On Friday, I showed IT @ Cork the Windows Live Platform for developers. The "one link to rule them all" for those who want to get started mashing a wide variety of services into their web-based applications is the Windows Live Developer Center on MSDN Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 10:26 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

Develop, Design, Deploy

Over the holidays, I built a data-driven website for a family member. It gave me a chance to explore some new Microsoft web technologies and tools hands-on. Here's how I developed, designed, and deployed the site: Develop: using ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Read More...
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 1:13 PM by robburke | 4 Comments

Express Yourself (Expression Web, Expression Blend)

The Expression line of applications are a suite of designer tools that help integrate the designer and developer's workflows. Expression Web Expression Web was released earlier this month. It's a professional design tool for creating modern, data-driven, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:22 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Windows Live for Developers: Online Resource hub. In Beta, natch.

What does Windows Live have to offer Developers? Have you ever wanted to... ... add Virtual Earth to a website? ... use the Live platform to build Messenger activities ? ... build Search on your site? ... write your own Gadgets ? ... perform authentication Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:42 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 - scripting your database for moving to your hoster - Hosting Toolkit

I've written before about how to ease the challenge of scripting your data to move it from a local SQL Server 2005 .mdf database to a hoster. Things got a little easier today with the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit , which, in its first incarnation, is a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:29 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Students ask the most interesting things

Last Wednesday I gave a presentation to SkyNet , the University of Limerick Computer Society. About 30 undergrad and graduate students turned up for Atlas, Vista and pizza, in that order. What I showed them was basically a riff on my ASP.NET "Atlas" presentation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:13 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0 Quick Tip: Add a hyperlink to an image in a GridView column

I was asked today how to add a hyperlink to an image in an ASP.NET 2.0 GridView column, so that clicking the image will cause the browser to navigate to a different page. I thought I'd post it in my blog, just in case anyone else is searching for this. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:15 PM by robburke | 6 Comments

Top Tips for free Microsoft support and training resources

Clare asked Dave and me to reveal some hidden gems that are available from Microsoft for technical support and learning. This was our list of the shiniest gems that we find devs and IT pros don't always know about. I also posted the Best of the Rest as Read More...
Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 11:39 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

Dave and Rob's Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources (and the Best of the Rest!)

Dave and Rob ’s Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources 1. MSDN Forums – http://forums.msdn.com Looking for answers to your toughest technical questions? The MSDN forums are regularly visited by members of the product teams, MVPs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:57 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

MSDN Flash Ireland - International Resources - 19 Sept 2006

Special Section: ASP.NET 2.0 [ASP.NET] [Windows Forms and Smart Clients] Dundas Map for .NET Released Dundas Software has officially launched Dundas Map for .NET - available for ASP.NET with AJAX support and Windows Forms. [ASP.NET] September ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:27 PM by robburke | 4 Comments

'Atlas' gets its real name, and gets talked about in Cork tonight

" Atlas ," Microsoft's framework for building richer, more interactive, cross-browser web applications, has been given its real name(s): The Microsoft AJAX Library, the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. More details about Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:37 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

ASP.NET "Atlas" July CTP looks solid

I've just updated the Mosaic Art by Siofra site to the July CTP of Atlas. It's a simple site built with Atlas over a weekend, which I have shown a couple of times during demos. Although there isn't much difference from an end-user's perspective, some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:40 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Technology behind Art (or, how I built 'Mosaic Art By Siofra') (ASP.NET, Atlas Control Toolkit, RSS Toolkit, Flickr.NET)

Mosaic Art by Siofra is a simple website built with ASP.NET that incorporates some interesting features, such as web service communications, an RSS feed, and quite a few AJAX tricks. Here are a few of the technologies that allowed me to create the site Read More...
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 10:24 AM by robburke | 4 Comments

Atlas keynote at ApacheCon Europe

Wow - thanks to everyone who attended my Atlas presentation at ApacheCon Europe today. I was overwhelmed by the full house and the warm reception. And it was kinda cool to be the Microsoft guy running Apache and PHP on his laptop :) Here are my slides Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:03 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Ireland Web Developer competiton - extended!

We've had a lot of interest in our Ireland Web Developer competition from a number of schools and universities, but they have asked us to extend the competition until after the summer to allow for their students to enter. We would definitely like to allow Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:29 PM by robburke | 3 Comments
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