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For me, there are a lot of similarities between an application developed for Windows Phone and a Metro style app developed for Windows 8. A Windows Phone 7 application (rather than an XNA game) is built in .NET and XAML against a subset of the .NET framework and the application has a lifecycle which...
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A quick plug for an event in London on the 22nd June. Scott Guthrie will be in the UK and will be keynoting a 4-track event on the Microsoft Cloud. You can grab tickets here: http://azureconference2012.eventbrite.com/ and the first 50 look to be free whereas the price then becomes £25 for the rest (...
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I spent most of the day up at the first DDD North event in Sunderland yesterday and had a really good time – major congratulations to the guys that organised the event and thanks to speakers, sponsors, helpers and delegates who all devoted their time to making it such a big success. I hope (and I’m sure...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Gill Cleeren of Ordina talking about RIA Services; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then you should get a pretty good quality 1280x720 stream...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine who did an excellent session around MVVM which you can enjoy from here; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Rich Griffin of XamlNinja.com taking you through a two part session on Expression Blend; Practical tips for use of the tool A worked example going from artwork through to implementation Rich is an MVP for...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is my own session on “What’s New in Silverlight 5?”. You can find the main Tech.Days site by clicking on the image below; This is an overview where I try and give reasonable coverage to most/all of the new features that are...
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For the first time this year the DevConnections event is coming to London in June; This is a 2/3-day, paid for event (currently with a £200 off early-bird offer) and there’s some great speakers lined up for the developer tracks including Scott Guthrie doing the web platform keynote on day 1 and Dave...
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There’s some great events coming up in the UK over the coming weeks/months – here’s a quick update, hope to see you there. § 4 Hours of Coding and You’ll get a 30 Day Azure Pass at the Windows Azure Bootcamp this May – If you’re a developer looking to take advantage...
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Are you in the UK and building with Silverlight and WCF RIA Services? Drop me a line! mike dot taulty at microsoft dot com
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A date for your diary – Microsoft will be hosting its second TechDays event this year in London on the 23rd to 25th May. The full details aren’t out yet but you can get more info by clicking on the big picture below; I’m planning to put one day together around some “client” technologies and am hoping...
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Just a quick plug – I’ll be speaking at DevWeek 2011 in mid-March down in London and it’d be great to see you at the event. I’ve been attending/speaking at DevWeek for quite a few years now and it’s a fantastic event made up of both DevWeek and SQL Server DevCon meaning that you get ( wait for it ) 7...
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At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here. Session: Modern Windows Applications Visit Develop For Windows Download the WPF Ribbon Control and get the information on it here Download...
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We ran an online event in the UK yesterday around client technologies with the main themes being around Silverlight, HTML, Internet Explorer and Windows. We had some great speakers including; Jon Harris from the Expression Blend team John Allwright, John Papa , Karl Schifflet and David Sayed on Silverlight...
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Just a quick plug via Steve for the first “Cloud Evening” meeting that’s happening in London on the 11th November with a couple of sessions around; “Real World Experience of a Startup Using Windows Azure” “PDC 2010 – Azure Round Up” but, more than that, there’s pizza and beer and a good opportunity to...