Microsoft New Technologies

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Jul, 2007

I popped by Andy James’ blog today (it has been ages since I’ve been there) and picked up some good links to some new stuff hitting the street (Andy is good like that). Here’s some honey:

BizTalk Architects group on FaceBook
BizTalk HotRod Magazine Issue 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
BizTalk Labs
Pub/Sub with low latency

Thanks Andy, loads to [...]

Orcas CTP

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 23rd Jan, 2007

I found a post on Andy’s blog which talks about the latest iteration of Visual Studio (Orcas) being available for download as a Community Tech Preview (CTP). It ships as a VPC image, is 4Gb in size and you can get it here.
If you’re looking for some new technology to play with, check it out. [...]

Messing with Visual Studio 2005

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 21st Nov, 2005

So, I decided not to progress down the PHP/MySQL route with SearchMann.com and opted instead to play with the brand spanking new Visual Studio 2005. So I downloaded the free Express version and played around with that instead.
The UI is nice and friendly and everything worked really nicely on my machine. I suspected I might [...]

Mobile Application Development Toolkit

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 2nd Mar, 2005

Want to develop for Windows Mobile? Get yourself a free app dev toolkit here (including a 60-day Visual Studio Professional DVD). Here’s the details:
For those new to mobile development, this toolkit includes guidance on getting started with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Compact Framework, technical documentation and information to help take your Windows [...]