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At the Vista Squad event that happens on the 15th of October I'll be co-presenting on UAC with Aaron Parker . He'll be doing the majority of the talk and I'll be presenting on why devs (or at least just me) develop in admin mode. Hopefully...
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Yes, finally we’ll have an RTM product to build with. I cannot wait to finally have a stable API and something we can push to customers. More info at the press release with news that the RTM will be available to download on the 14th. No news...
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I’ve been busy with a Silverlight project where our models are all implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. I’m not a big fan of INotifyPropertyChanged because of the need to raise the event with the property name as a string. This can lead to numerous spelling...
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I love Reflector. Nothing beats reading the source code of a closed library that you're having issues with to determine what is the cause. Or reading the .NET framework to better understand what is going on. I had the issue this evening of helping my...
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Karen Corby has an awesome set of 4 blog posts on Visual State Manager. She discusses what it does, shows us how to use states, parts and transitions and is a very informative set of posts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4...
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Just posted up with the videos available for some of them. Follow the link to watch them. Some of them only have the slides available with audio but altogether a great resource. Remix Sessions...
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From Tim Leung: "We’re holding our VBUG annual conference at Thames Valley Park on the 4th/5th November. It’s £399 for non VBUG members and our international speakers include Ken Getz and Roy Osherove. The topics covered will include:...
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Well an interesting evening not quite to plan, just like to say a quick thank you to both Ray and Ravi for stepping up and hosting an impromptu Q & A session for this evenings DEV Talk. And at last thanks to Viral Tarpara http://blogs.technet.com/Tarpara...
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Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 15th of October at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Topics this month: Software. Services. Robots: Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio by Paul Foster To...
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What's New in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 By Ray Booysen View in HD Download 720p HD Version Visit Ray Booysen's ExposureRoom Videos Page...
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Live Mesh By Ray Booysen View in HD Download 720p HD Version Visit Ray Booysen's ExposureRoom Videos Page...
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Here is a sneak preview of some new technology from Microsoft that lets you use a mouse on any surface... http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/...
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Guys, Paolo Barone, who delivered a great session on Live Mesh at our last meeting has published a list of cool Live Mesh videos. http://blogs.msdn.com/pblog/archive/2008/08/21/live-mesh-videos.aspx Have a look!...
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New Blog site, maybe worth keeping an eye on for info on the future developments of Microsofts next incarnation. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx...
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Vista Squad "First Blood Part II" Wednesday 17th September Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 17th of September at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Topics this month: WPF /Silverlight Application...
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Another great turn out so thanks to everyone that turned up. (& Microsoft for hosting) I hope you all enjoyed both these evenings presentations. What's new in Silverlight Beta 2 (Mike Ormond, Microsoft) Intro to Live Mesh (Paolo Barone, Microsoft)...
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Courtesy of Vista Squad Buddy, James Senior (read his blog "Views on Windows Vista" http://blogs.technet.com/james/default.aspx ) The Microsoft Environment Sustainability Blog mentions a cool new app which is FREE that allows you to control power consumption...
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Everything all of it! Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (Bootstrappers) Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Bootstrapper) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual...
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I've just received the list of updated TechNet events from Microsoft. Details below: Virtualisation and Management Technologies 21 August 2008, Liverpool: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 9 September 2008, Reading: Microsoft...
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Due to hosting constraints we've decided to be a little more proactive about our assets (videos, pictures etc.) and try get more content but also move the burden off our little server that hosts Vista Squad. So we've bought a Flickr account specifically...
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Hey guys, the video from Matt McSpirit's talk is now available thanks to our brilliant videographer, Ian Smith ! I've embedded it below, but head over to the actual video page if you want to watch it in HD or download it in it's entirety. Main Video...
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Some advance notice on a talk I'm giving for Nxtgen in Cambridge in November. Abstract: "From the basics to the not so basic, WPF is an amazing framework. In this talk we'll look at creating simple data bound applications moving towards a practical...
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Hey all, Came across this list of essential downloads for Vista via Channel 10 (and Steve Clayton) http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Essential-Downloads-for-Vista/ Windows Live – the Windows Live Suite upgrades Vista’s built-in programs like Photo Gallery...
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Decided to get NDepend dealt with. I've been fortunate in that I've had a professional license but time has been of short supply in the last few months to be playing with something as cool and as big as NDepend. So here starts a series of posts on NDepend....
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In a medium sized project I'm working on at the moment, we've had a rather large memory leak issue. We've implemented our tiers in a pattern called MVVM . I wasn't sure on how well this would work but to be honest, its been an amazing pattern to...
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