Silverlight 4 beta ! This was the big day 2 news!. Tim Heur has a good overview of the new features here: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx If you want to get stuck in you can download the bits here: And there are some great training videos already published on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/ and on Silverlight.Net: http://silverlight.net/learn/ Silverlight 3... Continue Reading →
PDC09 Win7 Boot Camp
First we got an overview of the key kernel changes in Windows 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7) wonder if there will be any VHDs geared towards the Native VHD functionality in tomorrows PDC conference bags?. Then we got a cool? demo of a ‘hello world’ message running on a 96 processor system! Arun Kishan then went into more... Continue Reading →
Devreach 2009
Great to get back to DevReach again.. On my last visit in 2006 I took some pictures of Sofia and I was looking forward to revisiting those spots for use in my latest Silverlight application (http://fromTheMalverns.com). ** STOP PRESS: just uploaded a few Sofia examples, particularly like the one of the TSAR... Continue Reading →
TechEd 2008
Well I made it to techEd in Orlando this year: Day 0 Off to a good start - I had booked the cheapest rental car but on ariving got the choice of any car in the 'compact' section of the lot. I chose a nice cream "PT Cruiser" as it has a distinctly... Continue Reading →
44CO046 – Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training
I was lucky enough to be invited to attend this three day course last week. My own approach to training encompasses books, training videos, Developer events , Conventions, Internet sites and, perhaps most importantly, 'hands on' experience. I don't ordinarily pay for training courses so this event was more than welcome. The course covered: LINQ... Continue Reading →
Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference
DAY ONE Top news from the keynote this morning when Microsoft announced a new SOA product/strategy , codename "OSLO". The vision will start to become reality in the next but one version of current products including Biztalk, Visual Studio, Workflow Foundation and Communication Foundation (ie essentially .NET 4.0). The recently coined 'Internet service... Continue Reading →
Reality Check
Well I had a great time in Seattle but got back to reality with a bang with some current work involving some ancient Excel 97 Macro code ....
Orcas Training Day 3
Wednesday, June 27 8:30 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 10:15 Building WCF and WF Applications with the .NET Framework 3.5 10:30 12:00 Web Programming with WCF 12:00 1:00 Lunch 1:00 2:15 Workflow Services 2:15 3:30 Hands-on lab 3:30 5:00 Building Mobile Applications using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 5:00 6:00 Company Store Visit... Continue Reading →
Orcas Training Day 2
Tuesday, June 26 8:30 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 9:30 Introduction to the Microsoft Client Continuum 9:45 11:00 Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 11:15 12:30 Introduction to Silverlight 12:30 1:30 Lunch 1:30 2:30 Essential Windows Presentation Foundation 2:45 4:00 Building Smart Client Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET... Continue Reading →
Orcas Training Day 1
I walked down to building 20 in about 15 minutes, arriving to find a big group of fellow developers all waiting for the timed lock to open the door at 8.00am! A quick breakfast ensued where I chatted to some of the other delegates who all seemed as enthusiastic as me about the forthcoming events,... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 