Ronan Geraghty's Blog
Ronan Geraghty's Blog (Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft Ireland)
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the...
Author: ronang Date: 11/26/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR - RTM
The VS Database edition team has just released the golden version of the Visual Studio Team System...
Author: ronang Date: 11/26/2008
Event : UX Options with Microsoft, 11th Dec 2008 (Dublin)
Event Invite: User Experience Options with Microsoft - a full-day seminar If you've been reading a...
Author: ronang Date: 11/18/2008
Partner Training on 1) WPF 2) Web Development with VS 2008 in Dec 2008
Just a quick heads up re. two partner training events (for partners in Ireland / Northern Ireland)...
Author: ronang Date: 11/17/2008
WPF Data-centric Applications Using the DataGrid and Ribbon Controls
Having just blogged about the availability of the above I should mention this session from PDC,...
Author: ronang Date: 11/13/2008
WPF & Silverlight : Sharing skills and code
I get asked about this quite a bit, so this is session from PDC is a ready-made answer :-) Over the...
Author: ronang Date: 11/13/2008
WPF DataGrid and Ribbon now available!
Some great WPF resources/previews were made available after the PDC keynote: · WPF Toolkit including...
Author: ronang Date: 11/13/2008
Free Microsoft software for Irish Start-ups
Check out this article in today's Irish Independent covering the recently announced BizSpark program...
Author: ronang Date: 11/13/2008
Azure Services Training Kit Available
The first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit is now available. The kit includes...
Author: ronang Date: 11/12/2008
Windows 7 Developer Guide Now Available
The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system announced recently at PDC enable the...
Author: ronang Date: 11/12/2008
Martin Woodward wins PDC ShowOff Competition
Check this video out from Northern Ireland MVP Martin Woodward which scooped top prize in PDC's...
Author: ronang Date: 11/05/2008
Eclipse Tools for Silverlight
Check out this open source project "Eclipse Tools for Silverlight" which allows you to use Eclipse...
Author: ronang Date: 10/14/2008
Windows 7 app compatibility testing for ISVs at PDC
PDC 2008 is coming up in just a few weeks and you don’t want to miss it because that will be the...
Author: ronang Date: 10/07/2008
Ireland / Northern Ireland: WPF training course for partners (8th-10th Dec 2008)
Just a quick FYI for Microsoft partners in Ireland / Northern Ireland who are interested in WPF...
Author: ronang Date: 10/06/2008
ISV SaaS Readiness Program
I came across The ISV SaaS Readiness Self Assessment tool earlier today, which is designed...
Author: ronang Date: 10/03/2008
ISV On-Demand Training
I spent a lot of time working in ISVs before joining Microsoft and getting a budget for training can...
Author: ronang Date: 10/03/2008
WPF for Line-Of-Business (LOB) Applications
(Note: If in Ireland/Northern Ireland and you are are interested in learning more about WPF, would...
Author: ronang Date: 09/15/2008
What .NET download do you need? Personalised results :-)
Here's your personalised result courtesy of smallestdotnet by Scott Hanselman: Quite clever!
Author: ronang Date: 09/03/2008
Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal, SQL Server Ireland User Group Thursday Sept 4th 2008
There are still some seats available for this event in Sandyford, being run by the SQL Server...
Author: ronang Date: 09/02/2008
Microsoft Ireland Podcast: Partnering with Microsoft
For this episode I sit down with Ciara Murphy to answer some of the most frequently asked questions...
Author: ronang Date: 09/02/2008
Ireland/Northern Ireland : are you using an IE 8 feature?
So my last few posts outlined how easy it was to create a webslice and an accelerator and also to...
Author: ronang Date: 09/02/2008
An easy way to ensure your site supports IE 8
You may know that one of the goals of IE 8 is to be the most standards-compliant version of the...
Author: ronang Date: 09/02/2008
How to write a "Find on MSDN" Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8 (with working sample)
MSDN is one of the sites I use most frequently, so I thought it would be a good candidate for my...
Author: ronang Date: 09/02/2008
Check out my blog's Webslice (alt: how to add a Webslice to your blog)
So having just installed IE8 beta 2 today I thought I'd have a go at creating a Webslice for my...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2008
My blog - now with added Popfly
Just dropped Adam Nathan's recent news Popfly gadget onto my blog, and it's extremely easy to use it...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2008
Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?
Then why not join Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts for a LIVE virtual roundtable to...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2008
Javascript profiling in IE 8 beta 2
Great feature, new in beta 2 :-) Performance of the javascript engine has been a major focus for IE...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2008
Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 now available
IE 8 beta 2 launched today in English, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. 21 languages in...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2008
Recent Posts
Author: ronang Date: 08/27/2008
High Altitude Deep Zoom - Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 3000m
I just spent a couple of weeks in Switzerland and one of the highlights was a (two-stage) cable car...
Author: ronang Date: 08/22/2008
Firefox 3 and Silverlight
I've been doing some work with Silverlight over the last couple of weeks and ran into this question...
Author: ronang Date: 07/10/2008
Composite Application Guidance for WPF now available
Patterns & Practices have just released guidance to help you more easily build enterprise-level...
Author: ronang Date: 07/04/2008
New ASP.NET SQL Injection Defense Tools
If you're doing ASP.NET development then you need to check these tools out. As per this security...
Author: ronang Date: 06/26/2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 publicly available this week
Hot off the press from TechEd US, Silverlight Beta 2 will be available this week. Check out below...
Author: ronang Date: 06/04/2008
Teach yourself how to develop on Sharepoint
This is a great site for developers who want to get up to speed with developing for Sharepoint. You...
Author: ronang Date: 06/03/2008
Microsoft SLPS Case Study featuring Softedge Systems (Ireland-based ISV)
I recently blogged about SLPS and am delighted to highlight a case study featuring a local ISV -...
Author: ronang Date: 06/03/2008
Difficulty accessing MSDN downloads
It has been brought to our attention that some Partners have recently experienced difficulties in...
Author: ronang Date: 06/03/2008
PDC 2008 goes live
The PDC 2008 site is live as of today - PDC will provide an indepth understanding of Microsoft’s...
Author: ronang Date: 05/28/2008
Enterprise Library 4.0 Released
Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to...
Author: ronang Date: 05/19/2008
Developing ISV Applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
If you need to learn about Architecture, Deployment and Operations essentials of Dynamics CRM then I...
Author: ronang Date: 05/09/2008
Popfly Game Creator
Popfly Game Creator is now in Alpha ... all you need to do is log in and you can start creating...
Author: ronang Date: 05/07/2008
Protect your .NET code with SLPS
Want to protect your .NET code from reverse engineering? Obfuscation is better than nothing, but it...
Author: ronang Date: 05/02/2008
Bird's eye view on Live Maps : Dublin, Cork, Galway and others...
Check out Windows Live Maps where you can now zoom in to Birds' eye views of · Dublin · Carlow ·...
Author: ronang Date: 05/02/2008
CSI:NY using Photosynth
If you watch any of the flavours of CSI you'll probably get a kick out of this article which...
Author: ronang Date: 05/01/2008
Free Unified Communications (development) Training for ISVs
Microsoft Western Europe are running some free training in May and June on developing with the UC...
Author: ronang Date: 04/29/2008