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InfoCard: A New WinFX API
I'm surprised not to have seen more buzz in the developer community around InfoCard, which is easily...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/02/2005
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Avalon Beta 1 RC - Now on MSDN
The MSDN article I wrote on Avalon Beta 1 RC has finally gone live. You can download and read the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/01/2005
Why Do I Get an Error Complaining about UICulture?
There's a breaking change in the Beta 1 RC release of Avalon that many people have run across when...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/31/2005
Some Cool Avalon Apps
I just wanted to highlight a few really cool Avalon applications that have already been written (or...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/27/2005
Come and Work With Me!
OK – perhaps not an immediately attractive proposition, but how would you like to come and work in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/24/2005
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Avalon Beta 1 RC
Whether you’re new to Avalon with this Beta 1 RC release, or whether you’ve been working on an...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/24/2005
Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC Released to Web
Avalon is getting closer with every day, and Monday was an important milestone for us, with the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 05/24/2005
Grab Yourself a .NET Nugget
One of my last passing shots as I left the UK for Redmond was to put forward an idea for producing...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/02/2005
Serenity and the Art of Microsoft Serfdom
I've been taking a short timeout to look forward to the year ahead and just to let some thoughts...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/14/2005
Avalon Community Technology Preview Now Available to non-MSDN Subscribers
As a result of overwhelming customer feedback, we've now made the Avalon November CTP available to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/14/2005
Embedding Resources within an Avalon Application
I've been writing a game recently using Avalon, as part of which I wanted to load and display a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/12/2005
Thanksgiving
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US, a day of commemoration of the first Pilgrims giving thanks...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/24/2004
Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup
I'm very fond of the concept of Adobe Acrobat - being able to share a single PDF file that contains...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/24/2004
Avalon 3D Class Changes Between WinHEC and Nov CTP
In the second developer preview release of Longhorn, distributed in May at WinHEC (build 4074), the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/23/2004
Getting to Know Avalon - A Guided Tour of the SDK
For those of you who are starting to experiment with Avalon for the first time as a result of the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/22/2004
Calling Win32 APIs from the .NET Framework - The Easy Way
Although the .NET Framework contains a comprehensive catalog of classes that encapsulate much of the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/22/2004
Differentiating Avalon, XAML and Aero
One of the areas that I've seen cause a bit of confusion in the newsgroups and on blogs is the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/19/2004
And So It Starts Again... Avalon Community Technical Preview Released
The documentation is complete and the bits are signed off and uploaded to MSDN Subscriber Downloads....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/18/2004
Letter from America - Part II
One of the many things that continues to mystify me about American life is the garbage disposal...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/29/2004
All Quiet on the Longhorn Front?
So I've been in Redmond for a week now - and what a week! Seen lots of cool Longhorn technology...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/15/2004
Esoteric .NET Language Challenge
It's Friday afternoon, I'm bored with "conventional languages" such as C# and VB, so let's play a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/01/2004
All Aboard the Developer "Express"
I had a great time this week presenting to the London Database Developer Forum on the Express...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/01/2004
I'm Leaving Microsoft...
This job has been the most enjoyable I've had in my professional career so far, but after four years...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/23/2004
Three Weeks in Review
It's been a quiet month so far on my blog: mainly because I've been on a fortnight's holiday and my...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/22/2004
Monitoring Performance of SQL Server 2005 Objects
Ever since the SQLCLR talk at TechEd San Diego, I've been trying to find out some more information...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/31/2004
Building My First Longhorn Sidebar Tile
For various reasons, I've been spending a fair bit of time over the last week or two ramping up my...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/20/2004
Installing Whidbey Beta 1 and Yukon Beta 2 Together
This is probably blatantly obvious to most people, but I've seen some confusion on this topic over...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/20/2004
Administering and Managing .NET Framework Applications: Webcasts Online...
I've written before in my blog about my desire to see us produce better training and education for...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/04/2004
Migrating from Windows Forms 1.x to Windows Forms 2.0
This entry starts by looking at the new features in Windows Forms 2.0, and then proceeds to describe...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/20/2004
Integrating Corporate Data into Office with Information Bridge Framework
Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) is a new solution that provides a standardised way for...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/19/2004
MSBuild: The New Build System for Visual Studio 2005 and Longhorn
MSBuild is the new build system in Visual Studio 2005. It has been built from the ground up in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/19/2004
Building Advanced Reports with the Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services
The Excel add-in is one of two just released Business Intelligence solutions available for download:...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2004
Solving Business Problems with SQL Server 2005 Data Mining
Data Mining is about exploring your data, finding patterns and performing predictions. Where...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2004
Building Advanced Reporting Services Applications
Creating ReportsReporting Services is built on SQL Server 2000, and the metadata definitions are...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2004
Another Week, Another Conference
This week I'm in the US again, attending an internal conference for sales, marketing and technical...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/17/2004
Visual Studio 2005: Two Events at Microsoft UK
If you're interested in finding out more about Visual Studio 2005, we're running two developer...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/16/2004
TechEd Europe: Wrapup
I've had a couple of weeks' silence on the blog, for which I apologise. TechEd was such a full-on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 07/16/2004
TechEd Europe: Top Scoring Sessions for Today
Each year there's a few speakers who compete vigorously throughout the conference to get the best...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/29/2004
Visual Studio and SQL Server Express Editions Announced
This morning at TechEd Europe, we announced the introduction of "Express" editions of a number of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/29/2004
TechEd Europe: Keynote
We started planning today's keynote back in March. Keynotes are always problematic at conferences of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/29/2004
TechEd Europe: Pre-Conference Sessions
Over 4000 attendees have registered thus far, leaving just another 2000 to register before the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/28/2004
SQL Server: The 64-bit Sweet Spot
Scalability Experts have recently published a great white paper (PDF) that compares SQL Server 2000...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/28/2004
TechEd Europe T-1 Day!
[By the way, apologies for those who read my blog who have no interest in TechEd Europe, as 90% of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/27/2004