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August 15, 2008

VSTO: Harry Miller and the VSTO glasses

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15August

When I first started viewing this video by Harry Miller (on the Microsoft VSTO team) I started to cringe. It seemed a little over the top (and probably clashed with my general sense of Australian humour – sadly to be funny in Australia you usually need to be crude, critical or self-deprecating – just saying…) But by the time it had finished he’d won me over. The reason I really like it is...

August 9, 2008

Visual Studio Gallery

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09August

Thanks to Deepak Kapoor for alerting me to this one – the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery – a list of add-ins and extensions for Visual Studio. It’s been around for a little while now, so you may already know about it. But if not, start here with the list of Highest Rated add-ins for Visual Studio.

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August 9, 2008

SQL 2008 Support in VS2008 SP1

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A nice little interview with Milind Lele by Beth Massi, uncovering some of the nice data sync enhancements coming in SP1 (especially if you are connecting to SQL Server 2008). If you haven’t seen this stuff covered before, then this 15 minute overview is worth watching. But treat this as a ‘what’s possible’ not a ‘how to do it’ video. It covers the functionality nicely, but I’m a...

August 3, 2008

CLARITY: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

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03August

After chatting with a few people about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) recently, it’s clear that the technology is not that well understood (even though, in my opinion, Microsoft have done a pretty good job of articulating it – much better than say OBA for example). So in this post I’m aiming to give a high level overview of VSTO and clear up some misconceptions. As usual this is...

August 2, 2008

Mojave Experiment thoughts

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02August

The Mojave Experiment has received a fair bit of attention in the last week or so. Some think it’s great, others deceptive. One comment I found interesting was Mary-Jo’s thought that if Apple had done this type of marketing they’d be getting applauded. Maybe. (As an aside, Adrian has a nice little discussion of whether the Mojave results are even valid.) Having pondered it a bit over the...

August 2, 2008

That useless Windows Shutdown dialog

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Rick Strahl explains how to get rid of the Windows Server Shutdown Event Tracker dialog – you know, the annoying one that asks you to put in a reason every time you reboot. I have to admit I had no idea you could even get rid of it (but then again I never looked). One of the comments on the post gives a good case for why you’d want to leave it on, but for most of us (especially home users)...

August 2, 2008

Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008

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At Wednesday’s SBTUG James McCutcheon gave us a quick rundown on the latest CTP3 of the Windows Live Controls (download here). Neil Roodyn and Nick Randolph have each put together quick videos on a few of the controls – Silverlight Streaming in Neil’s case and Virtual Earth in Nick’s. The videos are short (approx 10 mins give or take), clear and interesting – worth a look. Neil, Nick...

August 1, 2008

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 Beta

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01August

Last December I thought the idea of an AddOn Studio for WoW was amazing. And if you missed the Ken Levy interview about VSX on .Net Rocks then make sure you give that a listen – he goes in to a few details about it. What’s this got to do with VSX? The main thing is that the Wow AddOn Studio is its own standalone IDE built with VSX (here’s a brief overview of VSX if you’re interested)...

August 1, 2008

Uses for Live Mesh

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I think I’m finally starting to get my head around Live Mesh. I have to admit to being under-whelmed at first (although in my defence I do think it was massively over-hyped when released), but articles like this one from ReadWriteWeb help clear things up. Sometimes the grand picture is hard to relate to, which is why having simple little Mesh scenarios like these can help. After reading each...

July 27, 2008

OBA: Office Business Applications resources

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27July

Following on from my overview of Office Business Applications, here’s a quick list of resources if you are interested in learning more. In general I feel that Microsoft has done a poor job of projecting a clear, consistent message about OBA. The result is a mess of various interlinking sites that offer only surface-level answers. Getting to the heart of the OBA vision is a difficult task. That...

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