This time for Visual Studio 2010, CodeRush Xpress is a great developer productivity tool from DevExpress. Microsoft has made arrangements with Developer Express to make its CodeRush Xpress product available as a free download to any customer with a full Visual Studio license (i.e. not express). CodeRush Xpress includes …

The new Silverlight 4 tools are now baked and fresh out of the oven get them here b.

As noted a while ago, StyleCop 4.4 was due about now and many of you know I am a huge fan of StyleCop which has become open source under the MS-PL license, by means of a CodePlex project. Microsoft will continue to manage the StyleCop project, and Microsoft will be responsible for creating and releasing official signed …

get them here , there is also a slight update to the Expression Blend 4 RC here which is needed to stop problems with the Expression Blend Add-in Preview for Windows Phone (April Refresh) . I would suggest also installing the Blend SDK for phone get it here b.

for everybody who is now steeped in the last leg of the upgrade trail here is AppFabric for 2010 RTM get it here b.

As many of you know I am a huge fan of StyleCop and so when Microsoft announced that StyleCop will soon have a C# 4.0 version (StyleCop version 4.4) but that it will also become open source under the MS-PL license, by means of a CodePlex project, and all future development on StyleCop will be done from that CodePlex …

I am nearly back up and running after Mix in Vegas, I managed to dislocate my shoulder at the end of the trips (show girls are heavier than they look). During the visit, Lauren and I revisited the Coca Cola shop/bottle on the strip to retry the taste of Coca Cola. The Winners were: Inca Cola – Peru Sunfill Mint – India …

Today Scott Guthrie VP in the developer division at Microsoft announced Soylent# the new "composite" language from Microsoft. Scott said in his announcement that developers were tired of a wide choice of languages that allowed them to tackle a wide variety of problems and instead wanted a single development …

Windows 7 is a great bit of software, the only major downside was the support for virtual PC which until now only ran on a hardware assisted virtualisation (HAV) processor and supported hardware that is also enabled in the BIOS ( like the PDC tablet I am typing this on ). However for people without this blessing …

At last Microsoft has released a new generation of phone for a new generation of applications, This post is my up-to-date resource list for Windows Phone 7, I will keep this list up-to-date with new and interesting pieces of Information. Resources The Developer pages for Windows Phone 7 here The Windows Phone …