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Vista and Office Developer Launch in UK - January 19th & 20th, 2007
My colleagues in the UK will be presenting at the forthcoming Vista and Office developer launch...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 01/04/2007
Performance and Windows Workflow Foundation
The topic of performance has come up a few times with people who have been evaluating WF, so its...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 11/27/2006
"Essential Windows Workflow Foundation" Book
When I was at TechEd Developer in Barcelona a few weeks ago, I sat in on a few Windows Workflow...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 11/20/2006
Tech·Ed: Developers - The Virtual Side
I'll be at TechEd: Developers in Barcelona all next week, and if you're there too, I hope you a...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 11/03/2006
A Quick Plug for TechEd Developers, Nov 2006, Barcelona
I just wanted to give a little plug for the upcoming TechEd Developer event in November in...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 09/27/2006
AND THE AWARD FOR THE LONGEST MICROSOFT PRODUCT NAME GOES TO . . .
Why do Microsoft product names keep getting longer? I have this hunch that there is a secret...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 09/21/2006
SO MANY OFFICE 2007 RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPERS OUT THERE
I've been working a fair bit with Office 2007, from a dev perspective, for the last six months, and...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 09/14/2006
FRee download - 7 Development Projects for Office 2007 and Sharepoint v3
I recently was sent a link to this free download from the Microsoft web site - a PDF book "7...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 08/23/2006
Getting started with Excel Services
I’ve recently started working with Excel Services, one of the new services in Microsoft Office...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 07/05/2006
Office Developer Conference 2006 - it's more than you think..
Thanks to everyone who attended the Microsoft Office Developer Conference 2006 – all 400 or so off...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 06/23/2006
Workflow Serialization - what you need to know about persistence
Jon Flanders’ recent blog on Workflow Serialization came about because of a question I raised on a...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 05/26/2006
Announcing the 2007 Microsoft Office System Developers Conference, 21/22 June 2006, London
The registration for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Developers Conference is now open. I’ll be...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 05/18/2006
MSDN “WinFX Overview” Session in UK, 10th May 2006
I’ve spend most of the last year working with the various technologies that make up WinFX – Windows...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 05/02/2006
Notes from the Office Developers Conference, Redmond
Whilst the public attention might have been on Mix 06 recently in Las Vegas, at the same time a...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/03/2006
Announcing UK event on Web Security with ASP.NET 2.0 and WSE 3.0 – March 8th, 2006
Security never gets the high profile it deserves, or indeed needs. Out there in the big world wide...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 02/21/2006
Getting up and going with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, aka "Indigo")
I have just been reading Aaron Skonnard's excellent new article on WCF entitled "Learn The ABCs Of...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 01/31/2006
Getting started with Windows Workflow Foundation
Ever since we launched Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) at the PDC in Los Angeles last September, I...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 01/09/2006
Update to "Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0"
My blog back in August 2005, entitled “The Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0 – My First MSDN...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 01/05/2006
Chalk & Talk at recent Visual Studio / SQL Server / BizTalk Server launch
I mentioned on my recent blog that I was involved in the Visual Studio / SQL Server / BizTalk Server...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 12/21/2005
Sorry I haven’t been blogging
Oops! I’ve been out and about on the road for so long now, visiting customers and presenting at the...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 12/21/2005
It’s Launch Time!
The Visual Studio / SQL Server / BizTalk Server launch is happening in a city near you! And by the...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 10/19/2005
The Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0 – My First MSDN Article
This week I had my first proper article published on MSDN – I’ve reviewed and contributed to other...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 08/31/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 and Web Parts
One of the coolest features of ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to create web site that can host “web...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 08/26/2005
There’s another Developer (Developer Developer) Day happening in the UK in October
Though I didn’t make it to the last Developer Developer Developer Day (I was away, but will try...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 08/22/2005
WSE 3.0 and Tech-Ed Europe 2005
I’ve been looking at the recently released Technology Preview of Web Services Enhancements (WSE)...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 06/22/2005
Pssssst! Developers! Want a new motor?
My colleagues here at Microsoft are running a competition that is open to all UK developers, for the...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 06/06/2005
Do you want to code this Saturday? (14th May 2005, Reading, UK)
Some of my colleagues at Microsoft are hosting a developer day this Saturday (yes, Saturday – this...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 05/08/2005
So, should you use web services in your own applications?
A very simple question - should you use web services in your own application? Most professional...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 03/23/2005
Some Interesting Downloads for BizTalk Server 2004
I have been doing a few bits a pieces with BizTalk Server recently (after several weeks doing other...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 03/04/2005
Web Services Books for Developers and Architects
Over the past six months or so I have been on the lookout for some good web services books I could...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 02/15/2005
My First “MSDN Flash” Article – XML Web Services
I have just had my first MSDN Flash newsletter article published – I had been threatening to do it...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 12/07/2004
Understanding Web Services – UK event, November 30th, London
Later this month I will be running a one day MSDN session around understanding Web Service – I hope...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 11/09/2004
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy when it first came out (I listened to the...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 10/31/2004
This year I will mostly be doing web services!
These words (in homage to the Fast Show) are by way of saying that I, for the bulk of Microsoft’s...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 09/27/2004
Security and developers (and a Microsoft Technical Briefing on 4th October in London)
Somehow I feel the mindset needed for security and for software development don’t naturally go...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 09/02/2004
Obfuscation
The issue of obfuscation and decompiling .NET code comes up on a fairly regular basis, so I thought...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 07/09/2004
21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software
I will be presenting a session at TechEd in Amsterdam next week on the subject of software...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 06/24/2004
Data Binding with ASP.NET
I am presenting the session on Building Data-Driven Websites with ASP.NET (a.k.a. Data Binding and...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 06/01/2004
Security and Windows XP Service Pack 2
The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) has had me thinking more about security. SP2...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 05/25/2004
Developing on Microsoft Windows Server 2003
I have been developing on Windows Server 2003, part of the Windows Server System, since its launch a...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/30/2004
TechEd Europe 2004
Even though summer seems a long way away, preparation is well underway for TechEd Europe, which...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/15/2004
MSDN Flash – how you can find out what we are doing
In yesterdays post about the forthcoming Microsoft UK Technical Roadshow, I realised, after I posted...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/06/2004
Microsoft UK Technical Roadshow – Spring 2004
I will presenting at a couple of the forthcoming UK Microsoft Technical Roadshows (we used to refer...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/05/2004
In Search of Stupidity – Over 20 years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
I have just finished reading Merrill Chapman’s book “In Search of Stupidity – Over...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 04/02/2004
Smart client and deployment
One of the regular software design discussions I find myself involved in is that of choosing between...
Author: David Gristwood Date: 03/12/2004