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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing
Microsoft Expression Web includes the capability to render web pages using a variety of different...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2009
More Sessions Posted for PDC09
Some more sessions have just been announced for PDC09 (Nov 16-19, LA Convention Center). The current...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/02/2009
A little legalese (off topic)
My wife and I have just bought a new house (well new to us). This can be a somewhat of a traumatic...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2009
Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live
On 17th September there’s a full day of Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 goodness coming live from...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2009
Live Meeting with ScottGu Tomorrow
The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) is hosting another Q&A session with Scott Guthrie tomorrow...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2009
Windows 7 Resources
I’m one of those people who got on okay with Vista on the whole. I enjoyed its new look and feel, it...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2009
IE8. More secure than your average browser?
Testing by NSS Labs suggests that’s the case. Read the summary on the IE Blog Some more details from...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/13/2009
Deploying Your First Windows Azure App
Last week I talked about how to get started with Windows Azure. In this post I want to take the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/11/2009
Silverlight / Expression UK Launch Videos
MikeT and I were both at the recent UK Launch of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 and, amongst other...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/11/2009
Getting Up and Running with Windows Azure
If you’re not sure what Windows Azure is, may I recommend Steve Marx excellent hand drawn video. The...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/05/2009
ASP.NET 4.0 Series Index Post
Just a quick post to provide hooks to the various posts in this series. I’ll add more as I expand on...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/05/2009
ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements
Another in my unpredictable series on ASP.NET 4.0, let’s take a look at one of the biggest areas of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast
Eric’s been busy extending the brand, developing new channels and generally beavering away (this new...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2009
Expression 3 Launched
Yesterday I was at the UK Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 launch event where we had the official launch...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2009
Windows 7 Application Compatibility
There’s a great post on the Windows 7 team blog by Yochay Kiriaty entitled “Is Your Application...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/23/2009
Windows 7 RTM
Yesterday saw the much-debated (in the blogosphere at least) milestone of RTM (release to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/23/2009
ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now
I recorded the Vista Squad session with ScottGu from last Friday and have now managed to transcode...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2009
ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls
Picking up where I left off some time back on ASP.NET 4.0, today we take a look at some of the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2009
Expression Design Resources
Following on from my post about the Expression family, I said I’d follow up with some more details...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/25/2009
Bing Background Images
I love the idea of using iconic British images for the Bing homepage. I thought the current one was...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/22/2009
Microsoft Expression 1..2..3
Blend, Encoder, Web, Design, Media, Studio – it’s easy to get confused by the plethora of Expression...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/22/2009
Web Platform Installer
I’ve realised that despite all the noise about it, I’ve pretty much managed to ignore the Web...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2009
Birmingham – An Intelligent City?
I’d seen this video (as I said to Mark, I find the start a bit creepy) before I saw Mark’s blog post...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2009
ASP.NET MVC Training Kit
Apologies if I’ve mentioned this before – I don’t recall doing so but that doesn’t count for much...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2009
Starting Out in Web, SharePoint or Mobile Dev? Why not Ramp Up?
RampUp is a community based learning programme created by a plethora of well respected subject...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/01/2009
Suteki Shop and ASP.NET MVC
At last year’s Remix:UK conference in Brighton, ScottGu mentioned a local company called Jump the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/29/2009
ASP.NET MVC Localisation
I mentioned in my Developer Day Scotland session that ASP.NET MVC enjoys the benefits of the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/29/2009
Integration via the Cloud
I sat in on a Windows Azure session given by my colleague David Gristwood recently. He talked a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/28/2009
ASP.NET MVC and iWantGreatCare.org
I recently dragged colleague Mark Bloodworth out to the lake at TVP to chat about ASP.NET MVC and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/27/2009
VS2010 Download Link (for MSDN Subscribers)
Download Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4.0 Technorati Tags: visual studio 2010,.net fx 4.0
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2009
A Few VS2010 Beta 1 Screenshots
As I blogged earlier, VS2010 will be available to MSDN subscribers later today (and everyone else...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Available Today to MSDN Subscribers
One of the many benefits of being an MSDN Subscriber is early (and sometimes exclusive) access to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2009
Remote Media Streaming on Windows 7
I’ve just been reading about a new feature in Windows 7 RC – Remote Media Streaming. This reminds me...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2009
Phil Winstanley and Dave Sussman Reflect on WebDD09
Technorati Tags: developer,community,webdd,asp.net,silverlight
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2009
Interested in Azure?
If you saw my Azure videos you’ll know that I went along to what was the first meeting of a new...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2009
Virtual PC Beta
As a follow up to my previous post, I thought I’d try and give you an idea of the Virtual PC Beta...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2009
Desktop Virtualisation
I went along to Liam Westley’s excellent talk on virtualisation at Developer Day Scotland where he...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2009
Bluffer’s Guide to Accelerators, Slices and Search Providers
Interested in entering our IE8 competition but not sure where to start? Looking for some...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/08/2009
ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements
Following on from my post on VS2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET I thought I’d spend a little time...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2009
An Introduction to the IE8 Developer Tools
As part of my ongoing roundup of all things IE8 in celebration of its final release, in this video I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/28/2009
Fame and Fortune await for those who play with IE8
Though I’d love to do this post in prose I fear it would create some woes At least for me if not for...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/28/2009
Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID
And following on from Dominick on DevWeek and WCF we also chat to Dominick about Identity, Geneva...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/24/2009
Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF
While attending this year’s DevWeek conference, MikeT, Eric and I tried to capture a few videos of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/24/2009
Cloud Computing and Windows Azure
A few weeks ago I went along to the inaugural UK Azure Net Usergroup meeting and with the help of...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/23/2009
Flip MinoHD
That’s a Flip MinoHD and a red Gorillapod in case you don’t recognise them. I made a little test...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2009
UK Azure NET Usergroup
A couple of weeks ago I went along to the first meeting of a new Windows Azure community in the UK –...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2009