Vista Squad

Exciting times at Vista Squad these days - This month we've got a treat for the developers among us! Last month we gave you robots, this month Microsoft Corp's Jason Zander (General Manager of the Visual Studio Developer Division) will be popping in to discuss the 2010 road map for all things Visual Studio ''Rosario'' and .Net Framework ...

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: • Data-Driven ASP.NET AJAX • Silverlight for mobile • Create managed ...

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/    

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 Deep Dive(Richard Godfrey, iPrinciples) TBC(James Senior, Microsoft) Directions to ...

Hi Guys,  I am developing an application with XML RPC using Visual Studio 2008. I need to see the network packets to debug RPC responses. Is there any plug in I can use in Visual Studio 2008 to do this?  Uday     

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 Virtualisation and Management Technologies 11 September 2008, Edinburgh: Microsoft ...

Just got an email from the Microsoft people regarding the next set of events coming up from MSDN and Technet: MSDN Events MSDN Event - Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Location:  Reading Date: 2 September 2008 http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032383782&Culture=en-GB MSDN ...

MSDN Events MSDN Event - Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Location:  Reading Date: 2 September 2008 http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032383782&Culture=en-GB MSDN Event: Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Location:  London Date: 4 ...

Vista Squad "Citizens on Patrol" Wednesday 20th August Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 20th of August at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Another Microsoft double header: What's new in Silverlight Beta 2 (Mike Ormond, Microsoft) Intro to Live Mesh (Paolo ...

Whilst at EVO day we saw a presentation on Unified Communications and we saw a live demo of Office Communication Server and the Microsoft Roundtable. In essence its a panoramic webcam which cleverly flicks to the person speaking and follows him/her round the room. WOW! We were told it is about $3000 but not yet ...