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October 2005 - Posts

.NET 2.0: How far it's come

There's been a lot of discussion recently about how much new technology is on its way from Microsoft and, in particular, how big WinFX is and how much learning a person's got to try and do if they want to get it at least reasonably well structured inside Read More...
Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 4:34 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

On Developer Presentations: Talk == (Code + Pictures)

I did a couple of talks this week at a SQL event down at Microsoft in Reading, one was on the SQL/CLR integration and the other was a tour around SQL Server Integration Services. We had around 180 or so attendees and I had a lot of fun with the day and Read More...
Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 4:12 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

And Me! And Me! Visual Studio 2005 Has Shipped!

Read the official posting over here; http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/10/27/485665.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:57 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

PDC Sessions Now Available Online/Offline for Viewing

This is a very cool resource: the sessions from the PDC are available here http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ for people to watch online/offline. I'll be downloading the ones that I missed and adding them to my external hard drive for those evenings Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:23 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

MSDN Nuggets: Windows Communication Foundation

I started building a series of the UK MSDN "Nugget" videos on the Windows Communication Foundation. So far, I've built about 10 or so of these and have topics for perhaps another 6-8 or something like that. They've just started being published to the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:07 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

VBUG: Coventry events - get signed up!

I met up with the guys who run VBUG in Coventry over the weekend and they flagged up a couple of meetings that they've got coming up in the near future which I wanted to share here. These chaps have a great venue and they're a brilliant crowd so if you're Read More...
Posted Monday, October 24, 2005 1:11 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WPF in the browser

I picked up this link ( http://www.valil.com/winfx/ads.html ) to a mini-app that hosts WPF in the browser to show some book details from Amazon. If you have WinFX installed (Sept Preview for me) then the white box will get replaced by some WPF which shows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:32 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

Windows Vista October CTP Posted

As reviewed (not entirely favourably :-)) on Paul Thurrot's site; http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5231.asp Windows Vista build 5231 has been released as a Community Tech Preview to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Brace yourself for a big download Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 11:46 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

CNET News has one of those nice News Visualiser Apps

I love these kinds of "display related links in a graph" kind of applications; http://news.com.com/2104-1016_3-5896983.html?tag=st.bp Cnet has one that I noticed today, I'm not sure how far it goes but it's centred (on that page) around Microsoft and Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 11:44 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Recorded session on some bits of ASMX V2.0 and WSE V3.0

I was booked to be down at the London .NET Developer's Group ( http://iancooper.brinkster.net/Pages/UG_Meetings.aspx ) last night to talk a little bit around web services with ASMX V2.0 and WSE 3.0 (I'm still on the Beta rather than the October Preview Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 7:33 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

The Road To WinFX

Two UK guys, Simon and Jonathan have put together a fantastic WinFX resource site over here; http://www.roadtowinfx.com It's well worth you popping over there and having a look at all the great bits that they've managed to pull together and subscribing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:16 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Developer Day at Microsoft TVP Saturday 22nd October is FULL!

Yep, I'm reliably informed by the woman in the know that the Developer Day at Microsoft TVP in Reading on Saturday the 22nd October is now full. They have over 350 people registered for the day and there are people on the waiting list. A special plea! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:43 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE 3.0: October CTP Available

Turn around these days and you miss something. It looks like WSE3.0 has a new preview available here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6bafe8a6-cdc9-4ae6-9625-e6260ccdef24&displaylang=en I've not had a chance to try it yet Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 8:08 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Man and machine in perfect harmony :-)

I got a new laptop the other week and it's turned out to be very good so far. I've switched from the not very impressive Dell 5150 which I had an awful lot of trouble with - build quality did not seem to be what I would have hoped for - to a Toshiba Tecra Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 8:08 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

UK SharePoint User's Group

I got a mail from Nick Swan about a new user group that he's creating for Windows SharePoint Services . I'm a user of SharePoint but I'm not really very deep in terms of what I know about it. I have talked at SharePoint events in the past but it was very Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:26 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows Vista at the ICDC in Liverpool

I visited the ICDC in Liverpool today to give a talk about the developer aspects of Windows Vista. It's a pretty interesting place providing "incubation" facilities to a bunch of small business specialising in the area of digital content and some of the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:16 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

InfoCard: Framework for Digital Identities

If you're exploring InfoCard at all and its relationship to the Windows Communication Foundation then you'll be wanting to explore this link; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66734401-4988-4ded-9876-3dc10223052c&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:31 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments