Ian Moulster's blog
A Microsoft employee translating Microsoft technology into plain English
A new roadtrip audio CD for Vista and Office 12 developers?
We're at the early planning stages for a new "roadtrip" audio CD (see this link for the current...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 11/10/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Express - Free product
In case you missed it: While there were plenty of announcements at the launch events about...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 11/09/2005
2,000 people help UK launch VS/SQL/BTS
It's happened: The main customer launch event for the UK took place yesterday, Nov 8th. It was a...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 11/09/2005
Getting up to speed quickly on Visual Studio 2005
So you've downloaded the final version of Visual Studio 2005 from MSDN subscriber downloads (or got...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 10/28/2005
RoadToWinFX.com
It's been a quiet blog month for me so far as we are hurtling towards launch and I'm getting dragged...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 10/20/2005
UK launch getting full quickly
UK launch is filling very fast, at the rate we're going I'm told we'll be full in a week. So if you...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/29/2005
Free software at UK launch
Hot on the heels of the last blog: Here's something that might make it even more useful for you to...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/27/2005
UK Launch of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005
As you probably know, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 will be launching worldwide in November...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/27/2005
FrontPage vs Quartz Web Designer: Clearing the air
A number of people have asked me some searching questions since Quartz Web Designer (QWD) was aired...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/20/2005
What's hot from day 2 at the PDC?
Ok, 10 more things to be aware of that were talked about today (again in no particular order, and...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/14/2005
What's hot from day 1 at the PDC?
Day 1 of the PDC is done (apart from a meal with the Press tonight) - what's the scoop on features...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/14/2005
Uncaging the leopard
Leopards shouldn’t be caged. And with a little help from Acrylic I’ve managed to set one free (well,...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 09/01/2005
WinFS beta 1 available now for MSDN subscribers
We have released beta 1 of WinFS, the new relational file system for Windows that I'm sure you'll...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/31/2005
A .NET CF search class
There's a clever little feature on smartphones that I've been keen to replicate in my own .NET CF...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/26/2005
Introducing w3Schools, plus here comes the PDC
As I'm a fairly simple sort of person I'm always on the lookout for resources that explain things in...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/24/2005
(fun / off topic) Just an illusion
If you haven't come across this before, it's really quite surprising. Stare at the crosshairs in the...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/19/2005
Acrylic now exports XAML - so why do you care?
If you’re watching a number of blogs you will already have seen this news: The August CTP of...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/18/2005
High level Vista features and benefits
We're making a fair amount of noise about Vista these days but it can still be fairly difficult to...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/16/2005
Download WinFX extensions to VS2005 (beta)
In case you missed it, you can now download the extensions to Visual Studio 2005 for developing...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/10/2005
Illuminating Indigo
Indigo, or more correctly the Windows Communication Foundation, isn’t the easiest technology to...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/09/2005
Ghosts
I’ve decided that there’s a market niche that isn’t being exploited: Blog ghost writing. The concept...
Author: Ian Moulster Date: 08/08/2005