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PsiSpace by Simon Middlemiss

Tales from the front line.

Hosting a TFS Build Controller on Windows Azure and connecting to Visual Studio Online

Moved...

Date: 02/11/2014

Skype for Windows Phone (beta) has shipped

The product I’ve been working on for the past 6 months has shipped to beta on the Windows Phone...

Date: 02/27/2012

Personal Kanban

We’ve been getting serious about using Kanban recently so I thought I’d try and take the concept...

Date: 04/23/2011

Eye On Earth update

So, we’ve just released an update to Eye On Earth that adds in Birdseye support, the new style Bing...

Date: 07/19/2010

AmbiguousMatchException : Why extending Silverlight through sub-classing might result in this error.

Earlier this week we spotted we had a problem with a Silverlight application that has been live for...

Date: 05/07/2010

Microsoft Consulting Services Solutions Development Blog

The practice I belong to in MCS, Solutions Development, has started its own blog at...

Date: 05/07/2010

Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC1 on XP SP3

I came across an interesting issue with VS2010 RC1 on XP SP3 the other day. I'm on a customer site...

Date: 03/02/2010

Access denied to TFSTemp during a TeamBuild TFS Get operation

If you ever see something like the below Done executing task "Get" -- FAILED.Done building target...

Date: 01/07/2010

Team Build and Azure

I’m a big fan of Team Build, it keeps the project rhythm going and without it there is no real way...

Date: 05/23/2009

Please sponsor me for a walk I didn't know I was doing!

So, My wife sent me an email about 6 weeks ago about the sponsored walk she’s doing next weekend to...

Date: 05/05/2009

Unify for Expression Blend 2

Since the Blend Add-In framework came to light I’ve written a couple of utilities that are useful...

Date: 12/05/2008

Publishing WCF web services for Silverlight.

As a self-confessed crayon wielder I tend not to get involved in the washing machine technology of...

Date: 11/19/2008

Using ASP.NET to help Fibromyalgia sufferers.

It's been a really long time since I did any ASP.NET development (about 2 years) and a lot really...

Date: 06/23/2008

Calling all UK Developers - We're hiring!

The group I work in, Delivery Developer, are, along with others, hiring.  We are looking for...

Date: 03/18/2008

Tommy the Tungsten Robot

Through a friend of mine I have learned that someone I used to know at university has released a...

Date: 03/10/2008

Don't install the latest BBC iPlayer update.

FYI I just started up the BBC iPlayer hoping to get the latest episode of Torchwood and it very...

Date: 01/31/2008

BETT 2008

So one of my New Year's resolutions was to blog more. This is something that is remarkably hard to...

Date: 01/30/2008

Diamond

A friend of mine from university, Dr Mark Basham  is a data acquisition scientist at the...

Date: 01/23/2008

T5M : A cool Silverlight 1.0 site

www.t5m.com I've been working on this site for the past 3 months and it went into beta last night....

Date: 12/01/2007

Check-in fails due to locked file when no files are locked on TFS

We've seen this issue a couple of times with the project I'm on currently. When I saw it the cause...

Date: 10/25/2007

Step in a little deeper

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it is releasing the source code for .NET Framework libraries...

Date: 10/03/2007

Back at Cowes

So it's the end of Skandia Cowes Week 2007, and the fact that I'm only blogging now means it's been...

Date: 08/11/2007

Living with a Tablet

I've had RSI for the better part of 3 years and have been trying to find a way of reducing the...

Date: 07/14/2007

Windows/SQL/VS 2OO8 Ship dates announced

Somasegar has just posted about the launch of the next generation of Microsoft server technologies....

Date: 07/13/2007

Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.

I spent the weekend struggling with that error. It occurs on the final page of the Windows Vista...

Date: 06/26/2007

Acropolis

Today a new technology framework was announced, codename 'Acropolis'. It's a UI framework for WPF...

Date: 06/04/2007

WPF Keynote Anthem

Take a look at this video. It's a collection of all of Tim Sneath's portfolio of great WPF...

Date: 04/30/2007

Q AND A

Here's some key sentences that I think sum up the QandA session. Michael Arrington asks : What about...

Date: 04/30/2007

How far can Silverlight go?

As usual Microsoft are going to be working closely with the community to figure out what exactly...

Date: 04/30/2007

Silverlight on Windows Mobile

So they just showed off Silverlight on the WM6.0 with streaming video!

Date: 04/30/2007

Iron Ruby

So something that will come as a relief to Ruby developers is that the .NET Framework on the browser...

Date: 04/30/2007

Dynamic Languages

So .NET supports loads of languages already. IronPython you'll have heard of, next on the list is...

Date: 04/30/2007

Pushing the Browser

So Beau Amber, CEO of Metaliq is talking about what he's been doing in Silverlight. He's gonna show...

Date: 04/30/2007

Top Banana Code

Oh and the code for the Top Banana app is available for download, I'll post the URL as and when...

Date: 04/30/2007

Cool Effects

So there's a flight booking web application that Scott is playing with. He's extending it with...

Date: 04/30/2007

Complete Compilation Support

The Visual Studio environment now compiles your clientside CLR code and syntax checks it, something...

Date: 04/30/2007

ASP.NET / SilverLight integration

Scott's now demoing ASP.NET and WebServices integration with SilverLight. Just Add a WebReference as...

Date: 04/30/2007

SilverLight Screencasts

Check this resource out from Tim Sneath

Date: 04/30/2007

SilverLight and Blend

So Scott is now showing off how Expression Blend integrates with SilverLight. He's taken Visual...

Date: 04/30/2007

Scott's Demo

So ScottGu is demoing Silverlight, he's running on a clean XP machine, no .NET framework, no media...

Date: 04/30/2007

.NET on the browser, some highlights

Full .NET cross browser, cross platform CLR 300 - 1000 x performance over JavaScript Build .NET AJAX...

Date: 04/30/2007

Expression Studio, Blend 2 & More

So this is really exciting, a CTP of Blend version 2.0 is available for download now. It targets...

Date: 04/30/2007

Adding to the MIX

Unfortunately I'm not in Vegas, but I have been keeping up with the keynotes and some of the other...

Date: 04/30/2007

Clearing the Application Cache

I've been having some issues of the past few days where, having successfully built our application,...

Date: 04/11/2007

DDD 5 : Call For Speakers

Developer developer developer is a community driven "un-conference" that is hosted at the Microsoft...

Date: 04/03/2007

Expression of feedback

Soma Segar announced earlier today that the Web and Blend tools from the Microsoft Expression Suite...

Date: 04/03/2007

An introduction

I am a 'new hire' at Microsoft UK. I started on the 26th March 2007 as a consultant in MCS...

Date: 04/02/2007