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Australian DPE Team Welcomes (back) a new Member

Yesterday I caught up with Finula Crowe who is currently the Wave 2008 Community Launch Leed for Microsoft. She had some awesome news which is that she is rejoining DPE as Audience Marketing Manager. In Fin's own words her "passion for Developer, Architect and extended Influencer communities...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-23-2007
"Ride the Wave" - Early Event Notification

Microsoft Australia has announced the dates for the "Ride the Wave" (omg not another dreadful marketing slogan) tour. As most people will be aware Microsoft will be concurrently launching Visual Studio 2008 , SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 early next year. To support this this tour...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-15-2007
VS2008 Goodness

Last night I presented at the Perth .NET Community of Practice monthly meeting to quite a full house. Despite not covering some of the new designer features for WPF, WCF etc or any of the improvements in the web space it seems to have gone down reasonably well. Well at least, Brian saw some things he...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-04-2007
Small Features are Cool Too!

This evening I was taking a look at some of the additional options in the Project Properties dialog in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and noticed that there was an additional dropdown on the Resources page. The Access Modifier dropdown with options Friend and Public (in conflict with the documentation which...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-25-2007
Visual Studio 2008 - Are 3 Pillars Enough?

As some of you will be aware, Dave and myself have embarked on writing the sequel to Visual Studio 2005 , aptly name Professional Visual Studio 2008, which should be completed early next year. For the last month or so, while we were waiting for the contracts to be finalised, I have been going through...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-23-2007
More Update Issues

Two days ago a security update was released by Microsoft for Visual Studio SP1. Full information is available here but it essentially states it is an issue with Crystal Reports for VS. Since I don't generally install that bloatware it would seem reasonable that I shouldn't have to download and...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
The Symbian Conversion

I've been a fan of Windows Mobile devices for the last couple of years for the sole reason that the development model is imho far superior that what's been available for Blackberry, Symbian etc. However this is all changing as the mobile phone wars intensify. With the introduction of the iPhone...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
Power Tools for .NET Compact Framework v3.5

Microsoft have just released the Power Tools for the .NET CF v3.5 B2 that can be download here , which includes: Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer NETCF CLR Profiler App Configuration Tool NETCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool Remote Logging Configuration Tool NETCF Network Log Viewer There are...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
Everything is Go this Weekend

Things are looking up for a monster weekend of activity: For those who don't already know I'm making the move to Sydney on Sunday evening, so there is a fair bit still to be done. I've just got back from lunch with the residents from the Silicon Beach House and then later we're off to...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-06-2007
VB 9.0 Feature Focus

In my previous post I commented that VB is coming of age in Visual Studio 2008 with better support for some of the debugging attributes. One of the blogs that I regularly read is the B#.NET blog and recently Bart has been doing a VB 9.0 Feature Focus where he goes into a bit of detail about some of the...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-05-2007

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