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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Betas, C#, Entity Framework, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | 1 Comment »

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements ...

Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Silverlight, microsoft | 2 Comments »

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what's new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, ...

Outlook 2010 Features & Screenshots

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Office, microsoft | No Comments »

I have been using Outlook 2010 now since the start of the technical preview, which I was lucky enough to manage to be a part of, and I love it! So, for those of you not currently able to try ...

SOLVED: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Cannot Create The Window

Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in microsoft, visual studio | 8 Comments »

I am currently in the Microsoft Office 2010 tech preview and I must say that I am loving it! :)  What I did not love though was after installing Office 2010, my Visual Studio 2010 Beta stopped working, simply displaying the ...

Entity Framework v2 Articles

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Entity Framework, ado.net, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | No Comments »

There has been a lot of information being passed around recently about the changes being introduced in the second major release of Microsoft's Entity Framework, so I thought it might be a good idea to get a list of articles ...

Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, microsoft, visual studio | 1 Comment »

The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of ...

Windows 7 RTM – Expanding Windows Files Hangs at 21% – WAIT!

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Windows 7, microsoft | 9 Comments »

A while back I posted a message about the Windows 7 Release Candidate install appearing to hang whilst expanding windows files. Well, I just wanted to let you know that this also appear to be happening on Windows 7 RTM / ...

Upgrading Windows 7 RC to RTM / Final

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Windows 7, microsoft | No Comments »

For those of you who have been using Windows 7 RC and are now wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 RTM / Final, you will no doubt be faced with the message that you cannot upgrade from the RC to ...

Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to tackle Google

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in SEO, microsoft | No Comments »

Well, it's been a long time coming, but it has finally happened.....Microsoft and Yahoo have teamed up in the search and web advertising arena. After several take-over offers from Microsoft were refused by Yahoo over the last year, the final deal that has ...

Microsoft bouncing back? …. Windows 7, Bing, Windows Mobile 7

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Internet Explorer, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, microsoft | 5 Comments »

Microsoft have gone through the ringer in recent times.  They have had the relative failure of Windows Vista (which I have to say I thought was ok), the rise of the IPhone and other Windows Mobile competitors, the dominance of ...