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January CTP version of WinFX released, and includes a Go-Live license for WCF and WF!

Today's January CTP drop of WinFX includes a Go-Live License for Windows Communcation Foundation (Indigo) and Windows Workflow Foundation ! Wow! Windows Presentation Foundation, my friend Avalon, has (conspicuously) yet to receive its Go-Live status. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:56 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

John Grace at INDA on .NET build tools -- More like that!

At last night's INDA Cork meeting, I was co-presenting with local expert John Grace, who spoke with great authority and passion on .NET build tools, including Nant, FXCop, NDoc, and installers. John's a great speaker, and has over 8 years of real-world Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:40 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

WSE 3.0 talk at the INDA Cork Usergroup Meeting

Last night, I spoke about service-oriented development using Web Services and WSE 3.0 at the INDA Cork usergroup meeting. I always enjoy coming down to Cork for these presentations, and INDA Cork's Joe Gill wrote some kind words and posted some photos Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:23 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Irish .NET Usergroup Activities Next Week - Cork, Dublin, Limerick

January will see a number of .NET usergroup events in Ireland, some of which are listed here, on the developers.ie site . I’m going to be in Cork and Limerick next week myself, and Aiden O'Connor will be speaking in Dublin on Windows Workflow Foundation, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:42 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

Live goes Live - More on the Windows Live Ideas

I spent a little more time this afternoon with the other Windows Live betas . These are some preliminary thoughts: Windows Live Safety Center and Windows OneCare Live are just good ideas. If they’re executed well, many people will be very thankful. I've Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:54 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Live goes Live - Live.com and Live.com Gadgets

After watching Bill Gates' keynote at yesterday's CES , I was intrigued by Windows Live , and spent some time this morning exploring all of the available betas on the Windows Live Ideas page. The blanket goal of Live is to empower people by making everything Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:45 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

'Tis the Season to be Coding! (More Sudokus, More X-Box 360 Shenanigans, and the WinFX December CTP!)

Cormac O'Brien pointed me to his brother's .NET Sudoku Solver that uses a rich Windows Forms interface to show you each step it takes to solve the puzzle! And Don Box has festively raised the stakes of what can be done using .NET and an X-Box 360 Controller, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:11 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0 Provider model - the guts, the glory, the goodness

It looks like I'm going to be presenting the Web Developer content at the Belfast launch next week, in addition to another riveting performance of the keynote demos! So I've turned some of my thoughts back to ASP.NET 2.0. I still think the Provider model Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:04 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 RTM and are available to download for MSDN Subscribers!!

Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 have been Released To Manufacturing! They're available to download now for MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ Redistributable packages, such as the final .NET Framework 2.0 , are also publicly Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:12 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Encrypting strings in an ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file

Today, a small group of us learned heaps walking through the WCF hands-on labs from PDC05. In the course of walking through the WCF exercises, we stumbled across an encrypted connection string in a Web.Config file. Encrypting that string seemed like a Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:17 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

On SQL Server 2005 Web Service integration

My Cork and Galway SQL Server 2005 presentations featured thoughtful questions on Web Service Endpoint integration that I wasn't able to answer completely (and occasionally at all!). That prompted a thorough, if belated, literature search, which I'll Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:15 PM by robburke | 2 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

From Interop to Indigo

There's been a run of great technical discussions in Dublin. As Bill writes , Dino Chiesa 's discussion of interop at the IrishDev meeting last week was fantastic. Dino is a dynamic and eloquent speaker, and he reminded us all of the huge range of interop Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 5:21 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Last Tuesday's Belfast MSDN day: ASP.NET 2.0 follow-up

Many thanks to everyone who attended the packed ASP.NET 2 session in Belfast last Tuesday! I've had a number of requests for the Olive website code that we wrote during the 3-hour coding bonanza. I’ve handed it off to Damien McGivern, who has hosted the Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:07 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

When RSS feeds take over the world

It’s been a day for seeing RSS feeds being used in interesting ways. This dude has taken Bungie’s RSS feed that reports Halo 2 player stats, and brought it into an Excel application so that you can analyze your fragging ability using all sorts of pretty Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:21 PM by robburke | 7 Comments
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