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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July.
The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found …
Read MoreTypical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version!
See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.
Read MoreI am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals.
Hope to see you there.
Read MoreThere has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were:
- Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues and maybe drivers if using a laptop
- Do all development in a VPC …
Read More- I forgot to say in the last post the thing I noticed most about Spain - the quality of the roads and the courtesy of the drivers. Both excellent. As a cyclist in the UK I am used to pot-holes and being cut up all the time. None of this is Spain, drivers seem happy to wait for cycles and overtake safely giving loads of …
Read More I have had a week off on holiday at a triathlon club training camp (some holiday some might say, 26 hours of training sessions in 6 days). We were staying at Idle Breaks just outside Malaga. A location which I cannot recommend highly enough, great location, facilities, food and owners.
However, I have to say you do get …
Read MorePhew 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 …
Read MoreYesterday we had the first drop of the VS2008 SP1 Beta, well there is also one for TFS2008. As with the main VS2008 service pack there are loads of fixes and some new features.
- Support for Windows Server 2008.
- Support for SQL Server Codename Katmai CTP6.
- The Add to Source Control dialogs have been improved to be …
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