The BizTalk CAT/UE team have just released the “Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide”. It covers Deploying, Evaluating and Testing BizTalk with Hyper-V. if you are even thinking of virtualizing BizTalk read this guide. b.

I know it is on his blog but Richard is an MVP, it couldn’t happen to a nicer person. I am also pleased that Kevin Ball was renewed and Andy Westgarth is also now an MVP. it was nice to see all of the above at our event today. congratulations to all the new and renewed MVP’s b.

I am just back from a week on the BizTalk Stand at TechED IT in Orlando, it was great to have the opportunity to chat to so many great people and to meet other BizTalkers. I was privileged to meet some great people to name but a few Mark Beckner author of the classic Apress BizTalk 2006 EDI book. Todd VanNurden co …

As promised you can get silverlight 2.0 beta 2 here and the june preview of blend and zoom here. The SDK is available here or with the Visual Studio 2008 tools here. b.

I like the concept of SideShow and I think one of its flaws is not enough devices NOW , they are slowly coming on stream but not quickly enough for me. So along with all of the other items arriving this week I was pleased to see this a windows mobile version of side show and I have spent the day controlling my PC from …

I will say it now and I will say it again , Live Writer rocks. A new tech preview with some cool user features and even more developer features are available here. User Features include: Video and Image enhancements : Soapbox support , Better Image support (cropping , tilting , effects ) Editing: Word count , smart …

I am not at TechED Dev in Orlando ( I am going to IT Pro next week , see me at the BizTalk ATE stand ), but there are some important announcements to cover off. Microsoft Project Codename “Velocity” CTP **“**Velocity” allows high availability to data by integrating Large clusters of machines _s_eamlessly into a single …

Phew what a name, well if you want consistent style across developers this is the tool for you. Previously known as StyleCop inside Microsoft. Microsoft Source Analysis is pretty much a mandatory addition to any team development toolkit. In the same way the FxCop helps "focus" developers towards consistent …

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is out for testing. Scott has a great blog post on SP1, but the highlights (which are numerous)

• Classic ASP intelisense and debugging is back
• Faster application startup time
• Better client side rollout
• New Windows Form Controls
• WPF Performance Improvements
• WPF Extensible shader …

After years of discussions with clients that their ever and rapidly changing requirements could only be met if we implemented a telepathic interface to read their users minds, Microsoft have done the decent thing and released Microsoft® ESP™. Now Microsoft are saying that ESP is a toolkit to allow developers to build …