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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 for an estimated retail price of £484.99.

If you use a previous …

At the PDC uncle Doug gave birth to a new name for the product formally called Oslo, SQL Modelling Services.

While we have all knew the relation to SQL was strong, I do get the feeling that all products will at some point will be a part of SQL. I am now looking forward to Microsoft SQL Server flight simulator.

NOTE, in …

The amazing Kodu Game Lab from Microsoft is now available on the PC for trial download, get it here

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Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for BizTalk 2006R2, it includes a rollup of all of the hotfixes issued so far as well as

Get it Here

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The next generation of visual studio tips of the day are here courtesy of Zain Naboulsi, a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft who is stepping into some very big shoes (metaphorically,eep) of Sara Ford.

read Zain’s posts here, but wait there's more he is also providing videos as well :)

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A Beta version of Stylecop for Visual Studio 2010 is now available here, the only change is the integration with the Visual Studio 2010 shell.

obviously not for “Real Programmers” but for us mortals it is a great new year gift.

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Michael Stal has written an excellent post on why Real Software Engineers don’t eat Quiche ( I added the eating Quiche, but you get the drift of the article )

he did miss out a few important facts on Real Software Engineers,

i) They always have a new type of hammer that they are looking to try out after hearing about …

most people know I am a bit of a sucker for a new mouse or keyboard, the new Arc keyboard while not being ergo is still quite cute

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=120&active_tab=overview

I am hoping nobody will notice if a new/second keyboard is added to my desk with the …