- I have eventually got round to rebuilding my GUITester on Codeplex for VS2008. I must get round to looking to see if a similar declarative test markup system has any mileage for XAML. Something was talking about at Alt.net in the spring - how time flies.
Read More I have been asked a couple of times whist at the Alt.net and ReMix conferences about the local user groups around Leeds. Well these are the regular free community events I know about:
Black Marble community events - my company runs free community events at a hotel between Leeds and Bradford roughly monthly from autumn …
Read More- I have just found out that the session I was doing at Vbug in Coventry next week has been cancelled due to low numbers. Sorry if you were planning to come, but don't worry I will be doing a similar sessions (the the bonus of post PDC Rosario updates) at the VBug conference in November.
Read More - It is all well and good Microsoft saying that a developers and designer can share the same project WPF/Silverlight files in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, but whilst Blend does not have the ability to use a source control repository (TFS, SVN or anything else for that matter) and actually strips out any source …
Read More - Just seen the keynote for Remix in Brighton, I must say that Bill Buxton's part was one of the best keynotes I have seen (watch out for the streamed webcast). For me the most important thing for a keynote is to set the tone, the meme, for the conference and his session certainly did. OK it is good to see the demos of …
Read More Do you feel alone, nobody nearby who you can talk to about TFS? Well try the new virtual user group meeting in Second Life.
Only issue is the meeting will be 2am UK time by my reckoning.
Read More- While it might sound like a rather dull sequel to a set of “Microsoft does adventure” books, in fact Microsoft has joined the OMG and it is a very significant direction change for Microsoft to make, I have been following and commenting on the OMG’s work since the early 90’s, I really am pleased, as I think it will …
Read More - Microsoft has just updated it’s BizTalk Roadmap , the key change in the roadmap is the introduction of BizTalk 2009. BizTalk 2009 replaces the planned 2006r3 release. The 2009 release should be with us early in 2009 with some great features including development in Visual Studio 2008 :), I have summarised the features …
Read More - Back home now after a excellent two days at Alt.Net in London. As with the spring conference this was a thought provoking event. I really like the whole open space format, though there were four 'main sessions' the event started the night before in the planning session and the bar and carried on without a pause, …
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