as a part of my collected sets of links here is a set of useful tools and links for Visual Studio Languages IronPython 2.0 can be downloaded from here Tools Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bit - here -CAT.NET is a snap-in to the Visual Studio IDE that helps you identify security flaws within a …

Yes that's right Microsoft Press are celebrating 25 years and giving away free books, this months is Joseph Davies’s book on IPV6 Get it Here the offer runs out in a few days so get downloading if you want it. b.

BizTalk 2009 CTP is now out along side ESB 2.0 CTP and RFID(Mobile) BizTalk 2009 supports visual studio 2008 , SQL Server 2008 AND TFS with some great new tooling for development and application lifecycle management. BizTalk RFID Mobile enhances BizTalk Server RFID by offering device management and offline processing …

On Saturday I was pleased to have been chosen to present on Microsoft “Oslo” at Developer Developer Developer 7. The event was a runaway success and there will be more. I would like to thank everybody who attended my talk and especially those who were kind enough to provide feedback ( good and bad ). The only downside …

I am back from a few long weeks away both at the PDC in Los Angles and TechED IT in Barcelona, it was been great fun out at the PDC finally seeing “Oslo” out in the wild but the week at TechED talking to lots of great people about the joy of BizTalk brought me firmly back to reality. Microsoft has started to put …

With the slew of great Developer and Architecture Guides appearing I have decided that a central list of them all is in order. I am now marking my resource lists to help people find them in the slew of “interesting” comments in my blog. Enterprise Library is up to 4.1 get it HERE Windows 7 Developer Guide – A guide for …

The ever so great Rob Miles has released his most excellent C# Course for all. It is already spreading to the far east. The big question is where next? b.

The P&P group have updated the Enterprise Library to 4.1 get it HERE b.

I am a bit partial to trying out new Microsoft hardware :), Over the weekend I received a Microsoft Arc The Arc Mouse’s is a full size mouse which has a brilliant folding back plate its foldable shape allows it to easily half in size and a natty carrying bag . Its micro transceiver clicks into the underside of the …

I was looking into Micro Formats earlier in the year and so I was really interested to see that the Mix team have produced a MicroFormats Toolkits to help create , consume and use MicroFormats. There is a IE component to help identify MicroFormats. A Live Writer Plugin to help create hCards CSS styles for MicroFormats …