Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps “Contoso Bicycle Club” and “Contoso University” were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft UK. They incorporate many Live Services some of which are still in…
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"We all do agree the world is not flat, right?"
At the recent BI conference that my colleague Ben has been shouting about recently, one of the Keynotes featured SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth. Why these two products? Well, because SQL Server 2008 will be featuring new types of data – in particular geographic data. Ted Kummert, VP of Data Platforms at Microsoft gave…
News from TechEd; free evaluation of Vista
Want to try Vista? Now you can with these free trials. Here’s the news from Dave Kim. Recently we released two images in virtual formats of Windows Vista which will give you a 30 days hands-on experience to play with both a Windows Vista 30-Day Enterprise Edition and Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 ….
Microsoft Surface powered by WPF
From the initial interviews I knew that Microsoft Surface was a Vista PC under the hood and I had my suspicions that the graphics were powered by WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation – the graphics subsystem that is present in .NET 3.0 and Vista). Reading Scott’s blog I found these suspicions to be true as he…
Developer Developer Developer Day 5.0
Last time, this event rocked and I would definitely recommend attending if you want to see and hear some impressive speakers talk about cool technology. The agenda is already published here and you can register for the event here. From the looks of it I will try and get along to IIS 7.0, C#3.0. Mobile…
Family.Show app shows of WPF, source code is available
Saving the best to last 🙂 The Vertigo crew were commissioned by Microsoft to create an app in WPF that showed off some of the technology. What they came up with was a an app that helps build and visualise family trees. Apparently genealogy is the fastest growing hobby in North America! Anyway,…
New York Times Reader in Silverlight on a Mac
Shock horror, but here’s some innovation from Microsoft (back story from comments in this post). The New York Times Reader which was originally a Vista launch app based on WPF has been ported to Silverlight on the Mac. Now because WPF and Silverlight share the same presentation markup language the porting would have taken a…
Upcoming Microsoft Events for developers
Some interesting events coming up soon including how to develop applications using Silverlight and Windows Live: Web Design and Development with Silverlight (Formerly Code-Named “WPF/E) and Windows Live: Reading, 16 May 2007 MSDN: Visual Studio “Orcas” & .NET Framework V3.5 Highlights: Reading, 24 May 2007 MSDN: Visual Studio “Orcas”. What’s new for Languages and Data…
Develop your own apps for Home Server
The beta software development kit (SDK) for Windows Home Server was released last week and should make for interesting applications being built atop the server platform for system protection, media sharing, home security and home automation. The SDK consists of The API files for Windows Home Server HomeServer.dll, HomeServer.idl, and HomeServerExt.dll. This documentation Sample code The current…
Expression on MSDN
To all those who asked and provided feedback, thank you. Your voice has swayed the vote and Expression Web is now available on MSDN Premium subscription. It’s a start – Expression Design and Media aren’t on there because they aren’t related to developer tools. But what about developers who do their own graphics I here…