January 2008 - Posts

posted Monday, January 28, 2008 10:09 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Three Events in Three Days

I must be mad: three different events in three consecutive days... Building Services on the Microsoft Platform.  Reading, 29th January 2008 Developing on the Windows Live Platform.  Birmingham, 30th January 2008 What's New in Smart Client Development.  Read More

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posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:20 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Microsoft Word 2007 and Dyslexia

I was listening to a radio programme recently, in which a well-known writer said she was dyslexic, and for her the best word-processor she'd found was an old version of WordPerfect.  In particular, the white-on-blue colouring, and the absence of Read More
posted Friday, January 18, 2008 2:25 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

.NET Framework Source Available

This is quite big news.  A lot of people have wanted this for a long time.  Not only can you see the source code, but you can debug through it in Visual Studio.  Scott has all the details here. Technorati Tags: .NET Read More
posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:19 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Slides for VBUG London

Thanks to everyone at VBUG London for inviting me to speak last night, and to those who attended.  I said that I'd post my slides up here for anyone who wants them, and (if you weren't there) the talk was "What's new for web developers?", covering Read More

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posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:33 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SharePoint Slide Decks

Thanks to everyone who came along to our recent SharePoint event for developers.  I noticed that there are some problems with the download links for slide decks on the event page. I've copied all the slides, in PPT and PPTX format, to my Windows Read More

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posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:44 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack

In my job nowadays I seem to work almost exclusively with managed code, but I do try to keep up a healthy interest in native code development.  I was therefore interested to discover that a Beta is available for the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack.  Read More

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