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Michael Rys from the SQL team in Ireland: Dublin 8 Mar; Cork 10 Mar
I'm delighted to inform you that Michael Rys is coming to Ireland next week. He's a Program Manager...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/02/2006
WinFX February CTP: Faster and More Stable Avalon!
If you're into WinFX, then you've heard by now that the February CTP (Community Tech Preview) is out...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/02/2006
ASP.NET, Atlas, Windows Forms and WPF - how do they fit together?
.NET offers so many choices for your presentation layer. Windows Forms is mature, reliable, tried...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/01/2006
Messenger Live Beta Transformed (By Feedback?)
The Live Messenger Beta asked me last night if I wanted to update to a new version. I'm glad I did!!...
Author: RobBurke Date: 03/01/2006
ScottGu summary: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Authentication and Security Resources
Here's a tremendous compendium of ASP.NET 2.0 info and resources linked from ScottGu's blog,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/24/2006
IrishDev / Irish Internet Association Web 2.0 Event (Last Night)
I really enjoyed last night's Web 2.0 discussion in Dublin, co-hosted by IrishDev.com and the Irish...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/22/2006
UCD Visual Studio 2005 Launch - Slides and Links
I gave a presentation yesterday to a packed room of students and faculty of the Univeristy College...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/22/2006
On Hawkins' "On Intelligence"
I've just finished reading Jeff Hawkins' book, On Intelligence, in which Hawkins develops his theory...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/20/2006
Sudoku Solver redux: Code posted, and a new server
I've had a couple of requests for the code to my Sudoku Solver to use as a test of a simple ASP.NET...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/16/2006
Multi-Touch Interaction Research
Oh, that is just gorgeous.
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/15/2006
Belfast: Thursday: Dave Northey - Extending MOM and SMS to monitor and manage non-Windows Environments
The Northern Ireland Microsoft Technologies User Group has a cunning acronym and a sharp new...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/15/2006
Jesper Johansson on Tufte's Presenting Quantitative Information Course
Clare recently mentioned that Jesper Johansson, an exceptional Microsoft Security Technology...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/15/2006
Ireland Architect Forum 2006: Software Factories: Morrison Hotel, Dublin: 1 March
If you're an Architect in Ireland - or perhaps a Devarchitect who sits somewhere between the worlds...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/15/2006
Neither dead nor resting: SQL Mobile Merge Replication joys, DataSet woes.
Apologies for the radio silence recently - it's been very hectic! I've been exploring a couple of...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/14/2006
Avalon's Attached Properties are a cool idea. Renaming Avalon to WPF, not as cool
Rob Relyea, in his great blog on all things Avalon/WPF, recently posted a piece on Attached...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/14/2006
Some interesting blog links from around the island this week
Kieran Lynam points out that Internet Explorer 7’s ctrl-F search is deeply dinosaured, and points me...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/06/2006
How can we improve the localized MSDN Flash Ireland?
In today's issue of the biweekly MSDN Flash Ireland, I took the opportunity to ask what our...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/03/2006
Flight Simulator 2004: The Physics, the Clouds, the Random Friday-afternoon Encounter
Totally random: I met a gentleman today who is part of a government body that investigates air...
Author: RobBurke Date: 02/03/2006
Great Hands-On Labs for WCF (Windows Communications Foundation ('Indigo') )
With the January CTP of WinFX out the door, and a Go Live license available for its WCF and WF...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/26/2006
Office System 2003 and the Connected Productive Enterprise - Friday breakfast seminar in Belfast
The Visual Studio Tools the Office System is going to make the development of bespoke Office...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/24/2006
INDA Limerick first meeting: Introduction to .NET and Visual Studio 2005
A developer named Rob, coding quick,Spoke of Dot Net, some Web Dev, and One Click*To a packed house...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/20/2006
MSDN Webcasts on 3D and 2D Game Development in Managed DirectX
I love Managed DirectX. I thought I was going to stop loving it as Windows Presentation Foundation...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/19/2006
Building the Data Access Layer: Some ASP.NET 2.0 tips, and some new Linqs about LINQ
Building a data layer can be one of the most time-consuming (read: monotonous and/or annoying)...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/19/2006
January CTP version of WinFX released, and includes a Go-Live license for WCF and WF!
Today's January CTP drop of WinFX includes a Go-Live License for Windows Communcation Foundation...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/18/2006
John Grace at INDA on .NET build tools -- More like that!
At last night's INDA Cork meeting, I was co-presenting with local expert John Grace, who spoke with...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/17/2006
WSE 3.0 talk at the INDA Cork Usergroup Meeting
Last night, I spoke about service-oriented development using Web Services and WSE 3.0 at the INDA...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/17/2006
Cool Visual Studio 2005 Custom Debugger Visualizers
I love Visual Studio 2005's Debugger Visualizers, which allow you, at debug-time, to visualize the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/13/2006
Mix 06
IE7WPFWindows Livemobile devicesWindows Media CenterWindows Vistadigital identitymash-upsXBox...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/12/2006
Martin Woodward on Team System and Team Foundation Server
Martin Woodward was one of our community speakers at the Visual Studio 2005 launch event in Belfast,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/11/2006
Irish .NET Usergroup Activities Next Week - Cork, Dublin, Limerick
January will see a number of .NET usergroup events in Ireland, some of which are listed here, on the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/10/2006
Dave, live from TechReady
Bill and Dave are both at an internal technical readiness event in Seattle called TechReady, and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/10/2006
Ajax to the Max
Through Avalonian Chris Sells comes a link to Ajax to the Max, in the form of https://www.bindows.net...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/08/2006
Welcome, Dave Northey, Microsoft Ireland's new IT Pro Evangelist!
I wanted to extend a very warm welcome to Dave Northey, the newest member of Microsoft Ireland's...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/06/2006
Live goes Live - More on the Windows Live Ideas
I spent a little more time this afternoon with the other Windows Live betas. These are some...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/05/2006
Live goes Live - Live.com and Live.com Gadgets
After watching Bill Gates' keynote at yesterday's CES, I was intrigued by Windows Live, and spent...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/05/2006
ASP.NET FAQ - maintain page scroll position after a page postback
I found the answer to an ASP.NET question that I've been asked literally about 10 times. How do you...
Author: RobBurke Date: 01/05/2006
Microsoft's Top 10 Challenges for 2006
Here's a thoughtful piece by Directions on Microsoft suggesting what we have to get right this year....
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/27/2005
A thought exercise for my European friends
Imagine this, if you will: NO PREMIERSHIP. FOR A YEAR. European society would collapse. I've just...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/24/2005
Great Windows Presentation Framework (Avalon) article on MSDN
Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells, authors of the book Programming Windows Presentation Framework, have...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/20/2005
'Tis the Season to be Coding! (More Sudokus, More X-Box 360 Shenanigans, and the WinFX December CTP!)
Cormac O'Brien pointed me to his brother's .NET Sudoku Solver that uses a rich Windows Forms...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/20/2005
The Gateses and Bono: Time Magazine's 'Persons of 2005'
Time Magazine has been naming its person of the year since 1927. This year, they've named the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/18/2005
Tablet PC + XBox 360 Controller == Rumbly Pub Shenanigans
Don Box posted some code that lets you communicate with a wired XBox 360 Controller that's plugged...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/14/2005
Interested in web hosting? This Friday in Dublin: it's the Shared Web Hosting Seminar
If you're interested in IIS and web hosting, you won't want to miss the Shared Web Hosting Seminar...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/13/2005
Sudoku Solver Web Service
Nick asked for it, and now you've got it: my Sudoku Solver that I cooked up with Visual Web...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/06/2005
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express on this month's PC Live magazine!
Christmas sure is coming! On my nightly walk home, I ricochet like a pinball down Grafton Street,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/06/2005
Tomorrow in Dublin: Indigo for the COM, COM+ and MSMQ Developer
Because it's never too late to plug a worthwhile event, I wanted to mention that Paul Fallon is...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/06/2005