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Expression Web 3 Released

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, web design | 2 Comments »

Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst ...

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Uk Lunch Event in July

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Silverlight, microsoft | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, "Expression Web 3 Released" here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight ...

MSDN & Public Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Downloads Finally Here!

Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in Betas, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | No Comments »

UPDATE: The public version of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 can be found here. Today sees the waiting over for many people, myself included, for the release of Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. According to Mike Ormond the beta will be ...

Entity Framework Improvements in .Net 4.0 – Summary & Links

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, Entity Fraemwork, ado.net, microsoft | 1 Comment »

I have used the entity framework in a few projects using .Net 3.5, but we were promised that there was much more to come in the next version which is shipping with .Net 4.0 and with quite a few announcements ...

Watch TechEd Keynote Live (10am PST – 6pm GMT)

Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, microsoft | No Comments »

Just to let you know that, like me, you can watch the keynote at TechEd live at 6pm GMT (10am PST). Excitement seems to be building as to the possible arrival of Visual Studio 2010 beta! You can catch it all here ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta This Week?

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, C#, microsoft, visual studio | No Comments »

So, I have my Windows 7 RC up and running and I am now itching to get hold of a beta of Visual Studio 2010. I held off downloading the Virtual PC CTP ion order to wait for an installable version, ...

Windows 7 RC Install – Expanding Windows Files Stuck at 21% – WAIT!

Friday, May 1st, 2009 Posted in Windows 7, microsoft, msdn | 137 Comments »

UPDATE: This also occurs with the RTM / Final version of Windows 7 Just thought I would post a quick note about the Windows 7 RC install that I have just carried out. It appears that several people are noticing an issue ...

Internet Explorer 8 RTM Download Today

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Internet Explorer, microsoft, web design | No Comments »

Well, it looks like the wait is over and that today Microsoft will finally release Internet Explorer 8 RTM for download from its web site. The expected time for this being available is 4pm GMT in order to conincide with the ...

“Windows Web Gallery” Announced

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in .Net, CSS, WordPress, microsoft, web design | No Comments »

Microsoft have just spoken about the new Windows Web Gallery at Mix09 Basically the Windows Web Gallery is a single web site that makes community apps available based on both ASP.Net and PHP.  The site is still in its early days, but ...

Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 Download Available!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Internet Explorer, microsoft | No Comments »

Microsoft have now released the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. You can get the new version from the IE8 web site. Mike Ormond has said that he had a seamless install with the IE8 RC 1, but does give the good ...