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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
[UK] MSDN Roadshow Dates Announced
Get them while they're hot. Well, pencil them in your diary at least. Registration is not open yet...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006
MOSS 2007 - KPI webpart outside of a dashboard?
Some also asked me at last night's event whether it was possible to host the KPI webpart on pages...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006
SharePoint 2007 Licensing
Many thanks to all those who made the trip out to the Microsoft Campus in Reading last night to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006
Mine's white, no sugar
This is the sort of web app I wish I'd had the inspiration to create. While it doesn't really work...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2006
[Sample Code] TravelNews now available for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2
Last night I blogged about my TravelNews demo site and I've already had requests for a version that...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2006
[Sample Code] My TravelNews Mashup Site
I get so many requests for this code after I've done an ASP.NET AJAX session that I decided I had to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006
TechEd Developers - Almost like being there. Almost
My colleague Paul Foster recently took on a new role as an "Enthusiast Evangelist". Now TBH (don't...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006
Office RTM, .NET Fx 3.0 RTM. What next? (Vista I guess)
Yep, Office has released to manufacturing and .NET Fx 3.0 is available for download. These are both...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/08/2006
Blink and you'll miss a release of ASP.NET AJAX
Yep, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2 has now released. It's a tad embarrassing as I haven't yet moved to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2006
ASP.NET AJAX Nuggets Now Live
I recorded a few introductory ASP.NET AJAX Nuggets a couple of weeks ago and I'm pleased to see...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006
Vista Shell Features that didn't make the cut
Here's a great post that I found via Daniel's blog about Vista shell features that didn't make the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006
My Nabaztag Suspicions Confirmed
Since my post of last night, I've stumbled across the "Nabaztag Cruise Control plugin". From the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2006
Nabaztag
Okay, I'm curious about this thing. Something about it makes me think it's a very clever device with...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2006
Nurburgring Again
With reference to my trip to the Nurburgring back in June, and my comment about seeing a camper-van...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2006
Word 2007 Content Controls & Custom XML Parts
A while back I posted on a quick and dirty helper app I'd written to attach custom XML parts to a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2006
Website Debugging in Visual Studio on Vista
I've seen this question asked a few times now (and of course I ran into the issue myself a while...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2006
ASP.NET AJAX Beta Released
Today sees the release of the first ASP.NET AJAX beta after a series of ASP.NET Atlas CTP releases....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2006
What's new in MOSS 2007
The latest MSDN Flash Newsletter carries my (very potted) article on Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2006
I have my own linkid on ms.com
Maybe I should just retire now? https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5598307 Maybe I should have been...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2006
Atlas DragOverlayExtender Quirk
Well I suppose the title of this post should really read "ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2006
Another Live Writer Plug-In - Snipping Tool
Clearly inspired by my Code Formatting Plugin, Mike's gone off and written a snipping tool plugin...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006
Call for Speakers - DDD IV, Saturday 2nd December 2006
Microsoft Campus and DDD IVYes, believe it or not it's almost upon us again. Developer Developer...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006
Loading Images in the Ribbon
Martin has a nice post over here about adding images to items in the Ribbon. We were chatting about...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006
Office 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh and VSTO 2005 Second Edition Beta Available
Get them while they're hot. They're lovely. Only half a denar [caveat - not strictly true at current...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2006
InfoPath - How can I submit a form with validation errors?
This question has been put to me a couple of times so I thought I'd share my findings. It's not that...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006
Expression Web Designer becomes Expression Web - Get Beta 1 Now
As rebrandings go, it's unlikely to win "Most innovative product rebranding of the year" but...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006
Top 10 Microsoft Bloggers
I'd be pretty pleased with myself if I ever made it onto that list so I'll bet Eileen's feeling...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2006
Tag Clouds, Zoom Clouds, MO Clouds
Jonathan very kindly mailed me and pointed me at ZoomClouds which would have done exactly what I...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2006
Tag Clouds
Last week I think I started to suffer from "Blog widget envy". Everywhere I looked there were...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2006
Upcoming Developer events [UK]
Holiday season is over and that must mean it's time for the events season to kick off again!. We've...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2006
Source Code Format Plug-in, now with C++ Support
Due to popular demand I added C++ language support to my source code format plug-in for Live Writer....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2006
Live Writer Source Code Format Plug-in
I have to confess that I didn't plan to install Live Writer - I was quite happy with blogging from...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2006
Word 2007 Content Controls - The Quick and Dirty Helper App
In my last couple of posts (here and here), I've been talking about the goodness that is Word...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2006
Word 2007 Content Controls, the Custom XML Store and XML Mappings
In my last post I referenced an excellent blog post on modonovan’s blog which talks you through how...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2006
Word 2007 Content Controls
I really like the concept of content controls in Word 2007 for a couple of reasons; robustness and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/10/2006
Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos now Online
Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos Actually they’ve probably been there for a while and just...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006
Compact Framework - Setting the input mode to “numeric”
For certain fields in my application, I want to set the input mode (usually to numeric – eg for the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006
Determining the Application Directory in Compact Framework
My business mileage application serialises a variety of data (eg journeys entered, known journey...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006
Mobile Phone Throwing
While I often feel like throwing my mobile phone across the office for various reasons, it was only...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2006
Installed Office 2007? Got some feedback?
The feedback tool lets you tell us what you like (and don’t like) about Office 2007. You can provide...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2006
InfoPath saved my life (well, almost)
It saved me a bit of time at least. Back to my SmartPhone application for tracking business mileage....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/03/2006
Atlas July CTP Available
Wow, it seems like only a couple of days ago I installed the June CTP (but then I have been on...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2006
Office 2007 Development in Finance Markets – Resources Links
For those of you who joined us in Canary Wharf on Tuesday evening to see Ian, Paul and me talking...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/27/2006
Setting the tab order in a Compact Framework 1.0 application
Another one of my “learnings” from developing a CF 1.0 application (which I have to say is working a...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2006
You smell of cheese
A recurring conversation I have on MSN Messenger goes along the lines of: MikeO says: Hi -...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/13/2006
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Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/10/2006
Another MSDN Roadshow Date [UK]
I can’t see it on the MSDN website yet but if you missed out on the various Roadshow dates we’ve run...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2006