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Presentations: Balancing Slides and Code
At Microsoft UK we run at least one free developer event a week on average, catering for all levels...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/22/2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC1 Now Available
Following on from the discussion earlier in the month about Windows XP Service Pack 2 changes, we've...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/22/2004
Microsoft Folklore
Rick describes this great story from the annals of the Word team. Have you ever come across a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/09/2004
Details of Changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2
There's been alarm expressed in certain quarters following reports like this one suggesting that...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/08/2004
Worldwide Media Exchange
This is cool - don't know why I haven't come across it before... From the website: The World-Wide...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/04/2004
SPOT Watches
I've managed to get my hands on a SPOT watch, which is the latest geek toy doing the rounds in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/04/2004
How to Write a Compelling Mission Statement...
Thanks to Private Eye for pointing out this fantastic mission statement on the Lake Geneva Forum...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/02/2004
Life on Mars?
I've been following the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity with great interest since they arrived on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 03/02/2004
DevWeek 2004 - An Independent Keynote
I'm speaking at the largest independent Microsoft developer conference this week: European DevWeek...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/24/2004
Free .NET Code Coverage Tool
I'm not a heavy Visual FoxPro user - although it is installed on my development machine - but I've...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/23/2004
Using Terminal Services for Multi-User VS.NET
Not sure how long this has been around, but I just stumbled across this set of guidelines and tools...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/12/2004
.NET for IT Professionals
I delivered a three-session marathon at the Belux Developer & IT Pro conference on Tuesday,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/12/2004
MSDN Flash: Improving .NET Code Quality
Welcome back! My name is Tim Sneath, and I work in the Developer & Platform group in Microsoft...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/06/2004
The "All New" MSDN Flash Is Here
We finally launched an all new MSDN Flash newsletter in the UK today. This is the culmination of a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 02/03/2004
OneNote Birth and Adolescence
And whilst talking about smart client apps, this entry from new blogger Chris Pratley describes how...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2004
Free Books and Training for Smart Client ISVs
If you're a UK- or US-based ISV starting to build smart client applications with .NET, you might...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2004
UK .NET Bloggers
It would be great to build a community of British-based bloggers who are writing about .NET and...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/29/2004
UK .NET Bloggers
A list of .NET-related blogs written by UK authors. You can download this list in OPML format for...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/29/2004
TechEd Europe Call for Papers
One of the responsibilities I've recently taken on is that of planning the content for TechEd Europe...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/29/2004
Would You Swap Your Boss?
I don't get to watch much television these days (a combination of a young family, work and church),...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/28/2004
Yukon Engine: CLR Integration IV
After a brief break for Christmas and New Year, it's time to continue our overview of the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/26/2004
The Return of the King - Alternative Version
These guys have come up with a hilarious spoof of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. If you...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/19/2004
On the Move...
This is my new blog home (was https://blogs.gotdotnet.com/tims). Just waiting for the furniture to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/11/2004
.NET Framework Class Library Posters
I'm often asked why we don't make the glossy .NET Framework Class Library Posters (included in the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/07/2004
Another Excel Feature I Missed...
I've just found a really cool feature in Excel 2003 that I didn't know existed. To be fair, I don't...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/06/2004
Hands On With Longhorn
For me, the most valuable take-away from the PDC wasn't the free bag (it's starting to come to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/05/2004
Happy New Year 2004!
And so another year begins. The first week of January is of course the traditional time for all...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/02/2004
Yukon Engine: CLR Integration III
The story so far: Part I: Overview of CLR Integration Part II: Creating and Hosting Managed Code in...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/23/2003
Yukon Engine: CLR Integration II
In the last instalment, we discussed the support in Yukon for writing stored procedures,...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/18/2003
The Exception Back Stop
One of my Paris-based colleagues, Nigel Watling, regularly posts insightful nuggets of information...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/17/2003
Epiphany in Advent
I've had something of an epiphany about Windows Management Instrumentation today. I always used to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/16/2003
Yukon Engine: CLR Integration I
I thought it might be of interest to some to put a few notes up from the talk I gave on Yukon...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/16/2003
Write Console Apps with .NET
I've been really amused by how excited people are by the enhanced console support in Whidbey. At our...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/15/2003
Yukon Engine: Slides and Demos
Following on from Friday's talk on Yukon CLR integration and other engine enhancements, the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/15/2003
Reflections on the UK Developer Briefing
Last week was a quiet week on the blogging front, mainly because there was so much going on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/15/2003
XAML Patch for Visual Studio "Whidbey"
A patch has been made available for the Longhorn SDK and Visual Studio "Whidbey" releases...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/04/2003
Limiting Callers to a .NET Assembly
I've been asked the same question several times over the last couple of months, which suggests that...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/03/2003
Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server
This tool slipped out of Redmond with little fanfare, but it looks quite promising. It does for SQL...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/28/2003
.NET User Groups in the UK
<PublicServiceAnnouncement> It's been quite exciting over the last twelve months to see a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/27/2003
Using DTS and Analysis Services to Analyse Blog Logs
Following on from the entry I wrote about analysing blog logs, one or two people have asked me how I...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/24/2003
PDC Sessions Now Available Online
In case you've not seen them, the PDC sessions are now available online.
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/24/2003
ASP.NET Session State: Architectural and Performance Considerations
I recently came across a great post on one of the internal forums describing the strengths and...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/21/2003
Process Explorer 8.10
[Apologies for the lack of updates: we've been upgrading the GotDotNet blog server hardware....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/20/2003
Hear Benjamin Mitchell on WSE and Indigo
Short notice, I know, but I've just found out that Benjamin Mitchell is delivering an evening of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/12/2003
How Far Can You Go With XAML?
After fiddling around with XAML a little bit yesterday, an embryonic idea was floating around in my...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/11/2003
UK Developer Briefing
If you're based in the UK and couldn't get to the PDC, you might be interested in the next best...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/11/2003