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Ronan Geraghty's Blog (Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft Ireland)
Microsoft no longer a 'laughingstock' of security
Considering our upcoming security event for developers, this is a very timely Computer World article...
Author: ronang Date: 09/21/2007
SQL Server 2008 overview video (built entirely in Silverlight!)
Check out https://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/ for a new video that provides a high level...
Author: ronang Date: 09/19/2007
Cork Event, Monday 24th September : Visual Studio 2008
Martha and I will be making our first trip to Cork on Monday 24th September for a talk on Visual...
Author: ronang Date: 09/19/2007
All Blacks Vista Gadget
This is pretty cool: https://www.allblacks.com/gadget/default.htm Remains to be seen whether Ireland...
Author: ronang Date: 09/17/2007
Always-visible Silverlight Ads in ASP.NET (with example)
This is a simple example of how to ensure that an (animated) ad created with Silverlight (in this...
Author: ronang Date: 09/14/2007
Microsoft Ireland Security Event For Developers
This has the makings of a great event, with yours truly closing out the day with a session on the...
Author: ronang Date: 09/13/2007
Team System : know what you want your process to be to maximise the benefit
I'm talking to a lot of companies about Team System at the moment, both existing users and potential...
Author: ronang Date: 09/12/2007
LINQ to Entities Beta 2 and CTP of Entity Framework Tools
So far for me LINQ to SQL has been perfectly adequate and has just worked without any intervention...
Author: ronang Date: 09/11/2007
Stress test your MOSS apps with the Sharepoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool
Interested in Sharepoint capacity planning? Check out the Sharepoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool...
Author: ronang Date: 09/11/2007
ISV resources page updated : Innovate On program
Just added details of the Innovate On program to the Microsoft Ireland ISV Resources page. Innovate...
Author: ronang Date: 09/06/2007
Experiences in Upgrading from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 beta 2
So I use VPCs quite a lot and today I decided that I would test drive the upgrade experience from...
Author: ronang Date: 09/05/2007
A Custom Search Engine for the Developer and Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland
Want to create a custom search engine? It's pretty easy! All you need to do is to create a Live...
Author: ronang Date: 09/04/2007
Calling all ISVs in Ireland and Northern Ireland - ISV Page for Resources / Training / FAQs etc.
There is such a role in Microsoft as "ISV Developer Evangelist", and while that's not my official...
Author: ronang Date: 09/03/2007
Team System 2008 : the sum is greater than the parts (alt: Use Code Metrics in VS 2008!)
There's a ton of great new features in VS 2008, for Web development, OBAs, data access, devices and...
Author: ronang Date: 08/31/2007
Adjust the Network Mix for your Load Tests with Visual Studio Test Edition
This is an interesting feature I came across as a result of a question in a meeting last week : the...
Author: ronang Date: 08/30/2007
Windows Vista SP1
Want to know what's going to be in Vista SP1? Have a read of the Windows Vista SP1 White Paper...The...
Author: ronang Date: 08/29/2007
Halo 3 (in HD!) on MSN
Wow. https://halo.msn.com/videosHD.aspx
Author: ronang Date: 08/29/2007
Want to learn LINQ? Learn some of the new language features first - it will pay off.
As you can probably tell from the title of my last few posts I've been doing some work with LINQ...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2007
Debugging LINQ
I recently recorded a screencast on Javascript debugging (haven't put it up yet, watch this space)...
Author: ronang Date: 08/27/2007
Instrument your AJAX apps using AJAXView to profile performance in the browser
I just came across AJAXView which is a dev tool from Microsoft Research aimed at giving developers...
Author: ronang Date: 08/27/2007
Virtual Labs (you play, we clean up)
Yesterday I wrote about why I tend to use VPCs at the moment for demos. In a similar vein, Microsoft...
Author: ronang Date: 08/24/2007
Infragistics controls with VS 2008
Recently I was asked how Infragistics controls would play with VS 2008 - the answer is very well, as...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Class Libraries on Application Diagrams and System Diagrams with VSTS Architecture Edition Power Tools
I'm doing a lot of demos at the moment and most of the time I'm using VPCs since I can tee things up...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Live Search Images - Great UI!
In my last post I blogged about Tafiti, a Silverlight interface to Live Search. Meanwhile,...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Tafiti - a new search experience with Silverlight and Live Search
Earlier Today Microsoft launched Tafiti (which means do "do research" in Swahili) which shows how...
Author: ronang Date: 08/21/2007
The CD is 25 years old today!
On August 17, 1982, Philips manufactured the world's first compact disc, so it's 25 today. For those...
Author: ronang Date: 08/17/2007
Open Source at Microsoft
Microsoft has announced a new Open Source At Microsoft site to put the spotlight on its strategy for...
Author: ronang Date: 08/17/2007
Take 5 - 5 time-saving features in VS 2008
Ok, in no particular order, here are 5 features in VS 2008 which are going to save me some time:...
Author: ronang Date: 08/14/2007
ASP.NET with IronPython, Silverlight DLR Console Prototype
Technorati Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Developer, DLR, Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby, IronPython,...
Author: ronang Date: 08/14/2007
DB Pro Power Tools - including T-SQL Analysis, dependency viewing and more refactoring options
In a previous post I covered Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. As of 11th...
Author: ronang Date: 08/13/2007
IDE Showdown, primary vs. secondary features, commercial vs. open source
I spent about 5 years working in Java, where I used NetBeans, followed by IntelliJ and ended up with...
Author: ronang Date: 08/10/2007
Final TFS 2008 Feature List
Brian Harry has posted what he believes to be the final feature list for TFS 2008. A few interesting...
Author: ronang Date: 08/09/2007
"Team Development with Team Foundation Server" Guide Released
Previously I highlighted the beta 1 of this guide, well now the final version has been released and...
Author: ronang Date: 08/06/2007
How Live Search / Virtual Earth got us to the party on time!
var map = null; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap('myMap'); map.LoadMap(new...
Author: ronang Date: 08/02/2007
Team Edition for Database Professionals Walkthrough
Team Edition for Database Professionals (or DB Pro for short) has two main goals: Manage changes to...
Author: ronang Date: 08/01/2007
VSTS Webcast Series
Check out Adam Gallant's weblog for a list of upcoming Team System webcasts starting on August...
Author: ronang Date: 08/01/2007
5 reasons to check out Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Its all about Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Quite an old video :-), but the gist...
Author: ronang Date: 07/26/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
You can download VS 2008 beta 2 and the .NET framework 3.5 beta 2 from here (you can also grab VS...
Author: ronang Date: 07/26/2007
5 Features I'm glad to see in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server
Apart from CI support which I wrote about in a previous post there's a whole bunch of new features...
Author: ronang Date: 07/13/2007
Silverlight Streaming
function CreateSilverlightApp0(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source:...
Author: ronang Date: 07/10/2007
TFS Migration / Integration / Extensibility
In my experience, people tend to like TFS when they see it and a typical next question is "How can I...
Author: ronang Date: 06/26/2007
Continuous Integration with Visual Studio 2008 (“Orcas”) Team Foundation Server
I first started using Continuous Integration (CI) in 2002 when my then company started eXtreme...
Author: ronang Date: 06/25/2007
VSTO - Visual Studio Tools for Office
I went to the VSTO: Roadmap to the Future talk by Mike Hernandez last night organised by the MTUG in...
Author: ronang Date: 06/21/2007
Photosynth
I took a look at Photosynth today from Microsoft Live Labs. It constructs 3-D models of objects like...
Author: ronang Date: 06/20/2007
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Guide - Beta 1
My first post on this blog! Hope that cross posting to https://blogs.msdn.com/ireland works :-) Take...
Author: ronang Date: 06/19/2007