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F# - a functional programming language, in more ways than one
[Another in my continuing series on the innovative Microsoft Research projects I had a chance to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/11/2006
Windows Presentation Foundation at the INDC: Resources for learning Avalon
I presented about the Windows Presentation Foundation at yesterday's INDC usergroup event in Dublin....
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/05/2006
Microsoft Research in Cambridge: Applied Games Group visit
I had the good fortune of spending Thursday and Friday last week at Microsoft Research in Cambridge....
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/02/2006
VB.NET Product Team Tour Slides and Resources
Many thanks again to the Paul Yuknewicz and Todd Apley from the VB.NET product team who presented at...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/25/2006
Ireland .Net Developers Conference - 3rd and 4th of May - Tentative Agenda
Next week, on the 3rd and 4th of May, four of our technical communities - the ICS, INDA, IrishDev,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/24/2006
3 Tips for keeping your ASP.NET Starter Kit site cross-browser and cross-platform compatible
In each version of Visual Studio 2005, including the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/21/2006
MSDN Flash Ireland - International Resources - 24 Apr 06
Web Resources [Mobile and Embedded Development] Microsoft Sudoku: Optimizing UMPC Applications for...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/21/2006
Websites over lunch at Trinity today (Event Followup)
[Post-Event Update: Event followup links below.] Together with Darrell McCrone, I'm going to be...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/20/2006
Getting on the Express Train: Mindstorms, Skype, Mediashare!
The obvious news: The Express Editions of Visual Studio (5 million downloads and counting) are now...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/19/2006
Club Web Site Starter Kit: Invalid object name 'dbo.Events' or 'dbo.Locations' on default.aspx?
I'm preparing an article with some tips and tricks for making sure that your sites built with the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/19/2006
There once was a city called Limerick...
What in the name of Munster could possibly, POSSIBLY cause the lovely Limerick to lose its esteemed...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/19/2006
Dominick Baier on ASP.NET Security: Slides and Demo Material
Last week's MSDN Days in Belfast and Dublin featured an excellent presentation on ASP.NET Security...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/18/2006
Food for Thought
The missus knows how to cook. As we speak, she has just strained the Coq au Vin and is thickening...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/18/2006
Food for thought
Yum: 1 May - Classic North American Burgers and Roasted Peppers with Goats Cheese and CousCous...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/17/2006
ASP.NET Atlas: April CTP and Control Toolkit released
Last Monday and Tuesday, using the March CTP, I demonstrated how quickly and easily developers can...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/13/2006
MSDN Flash Ireland - International Resources - 13 Apr 06
Web Resources [Default] April MSDN Magazine Get a handle on your code by preventing deadlocks,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/13/2006
Royale (not with cheese) - and Energy Blue
In my demos in Belfast and Dublin, I was running Windows XP on my laptop, but I decked XP out with a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/12/2006
Changing perceptions about VB.NET from a C# junkie;
I must confess, gentle reader, that while I've always insisted that the language-agnostic world of...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/12/2006
Belfast VB.NET Event Photos are up...
...here they are! It was a fun event.
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/10/2006
I drank the last of my favourite green tea ever
I took this photograph of the package of my favourite green tea ever (click to enlarge). It was a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/08/2006
Microsoft Ireland Web Developer Competition Winners for March
I'm delighted to announce our March winners of the Microsoft Ireland Web Developer competition!...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/04/2006
Microsoft Sudoku, with ink, for Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC
Once upon a time, I embraced those ubiquitous, head-wrecking puzzles called Sudokus, and built a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/04/2006
Beta Experience for Vista and Office
Remember the Visual Studio 2005 Beta Experience program, which offered developers early access to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/04/2006
Ireland Web Developer Competition, Month 1: Enter early and often!
To my readers who are residents of Ireland or Northern Ireland: March, the first month of our...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/29/2006
Last night's ''Business Benefits of RSS'' discussion in Cork
I was one of the presenters at last night's IT@Cork Business Benefits of RSS event. Tom Raftery has...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/28/2006
VB.NET Tour in Dublin and Belfast means more than VB!
If you're in Dublin or Belfast, don't forget that the VB.NET Product Team are paying a visit on...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/24/2006
Juxtaposition
Seen on a newsstand as I was leaving Las Vegas: Cover of Time: "Are Kids too Wired for their own...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/23/2006
Microsoft RSS Team on the Windows RSS Platform
Next Monday, I am going to be presenting in Cork on Microsoft's increasing integration of RSS into...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/22/2006
Waiting for Godot and/or Vista
I'm supposed to be an evangelist, not a cheerleader, so it's safe to say I was devastated to hear...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/22/2006
GDC06: XNA Framework == C# on the Xbox 360!!
News from the Game Developers Conference: C# on the Xbox 360! In a previous life, I had a very...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/21/2006
Mix06: Robert Ingebretsen on WPF for Designers
I just attended Robert Ingebretsen's excellent Mix06 presentation on Windows Presentation Foundation...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/21/2006
Mix06: Things to Play With
Check out Live Ideas and, if you're a developer, the developer resources for Live -...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/20/2006
Mix06 Keynote (live notes, photos)
Summary notes (posted as taken) (photos) Changing experience as web evolves and "website" and "app"...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/20/2006
Mix06 About to Start!
Welcome to Las Vegas, where Mix06 is about to kick off and Microsoft will announce just how big a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/20/2006
The Inimitable Irish Community
For the first half of this week, I took part in Microsoft's Connect conference, which brought...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/16/2006
Irish Blog award winners announced, posted, blogging about it
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Irish Blog Awards! The event took place in Dublin's...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/13/2006
Little Syncr Updated
Little Syncr, my little utility for synchronizing a photo collection between Windows and a Flickr...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/13/2006
Mix06 Next Week! Homework: Atlas demos and 7.2 minute conversations
Mix06 is happening next week -- and I'm going to be there!! :) Mix is being billed as a 72-hour...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/13/2006
ASP.NET 2: DetailsView Control containing a DropDownList in Edit Mode, bound to a DataSource
About a year ago I wrote up an explanation for how to change the Edit Mode for one of the fields in...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/09/2006
Michael Rys in Dublin: SQL Service Broker: slides, photos
My thanks to Michael Rys and all the attendees for their contributions to last night's excellent...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/09/2006
Last Call to Arms: Michael Rys, SQL Team: Dublin tonight, Cork Friday
One last quick reminder that Michael Rys is in Ireland this week. He's Program Manager for SQL...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/08/2006
Give me my free Express Edition stuff!
When you register any of the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions, you get all kinds of free stuff:...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/07/2006
Irish Blogging Awards
Damien Mulley, organizer of the Irish Blogging Awards, kindly offered me the opportunity to take...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/07/2006
Introducing Little Syncr
I use Flickr to host my photos online.I use Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Library to manage my...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/04/2006
Build an ASP.NET Website, Win an Xbox 360!
To my readers who are residents of Ireland or Northern Ireland: Are you developing ASP.NET web sites...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/02/2006