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How to build your own Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:11 AM by James Senior
It was only today that I was discussing with Andrew Driver - the expert on Management in our team - about the virtues of System Center Operations Manager and how as a software developer you can build you own management packs so that the IT department Read More...
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Developer Developer Developer Day 5.0

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:43 PM by James Senior
Last time, this event rocked and I would definitely recommend attending if you want to see and hear some impressive speakers talk about cool technology. The agenda is already published here and you can register for the event here . From the looks of it Read More...
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Family.Show app shows of WPF, source code is available

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:05 PM by James Senior
Saving the best to last :-) The Vertigo crew were commissioned by Microsoft to create an app in WPF that showed off some of the technology. What they came up with was a an app that helps build and visualise family trees. Apparently genealogy is the fastest Read More...
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Silverlight - release your style

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:52 PM by James Senior
Light up the Web Silverlight (codename WPF/E) is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash (estimated to be running rich web based experiences on 95% of the world’s PCs and Macs). The goal is to provide the most natural and seamless method with which to design Read More...
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Develop your own apps for Home Server

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 1:15 PM by James Senior
The beta software development kit (SDK) for Windows Home Server was released last week and should make for interesting applications being built atop the server platform for system protection, media sharing, home security and home automation. The SDK consists Read More...
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Office Live Web Services - make it want you want

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:25 AM by James Senior
Extending Office Live has recently been made easier through the introduction of this web service which provides specific API access to core parts of the platform. There are also many Sharepoint Services APIs to play with via web services but some of these Read More...
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Small Software Developer? Daunted by MS technology adoption?

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:27 PM by James Senior
I admit it, keeping track of all the latest technologies coming out of Microsoft is a challenge in itself - I should know! :-) For developers it's an even more daunting challenge because their knowledge is out of date in short amount of time. For our Read More...
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Aspen Mountain in WPF

Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:34 PM by James Senior
More news from the Designer Utopia Event , Beau Ambur from Metaliq showed off their Aspen snowboarding WPF application to the technical crowd. Again he highlighted the great way that the Expression tools integrate seamlessly with Visual Studio, finally Read More...
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Mobile 5.0 Development

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:23 PM by James Senior
Interesting Mobile 5.0 APIs are being released - you'll get them in ROM and hence do not have to be deployed to the target by your setup programs. To code against them, you need to download the free Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK which installs the six libraries Read More...
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WinFX Screencast

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:13 PM by James Senior
I've been talking a lot about the power of WinFX (aka .NET 3.0) for some time now and I'm seeing more and more examples coming to market that take advantage of the platform. This screencast shows off an ficticious application that's part of our demo toolkit Read More...
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UK Vista Early Adopter Lab

Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:54 PM by James Senior
Here's some event information for ISVs in the UK who are building apps on the Vista platform. It's a day workshop for people who want to understand more about the Certified for Windows Vista programme - definitely worth a look if you are readying your Read More...
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Screencast: Next Generation Applications on Vista

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:27 PM by James Senior
Software vendors are already busy developing their range of next generation applications based upon beta versions of Vista so that they are ready to launch them at the same time as Vista. So what new stuff will you see with Vista based applications? Well Read More...
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Software Developers Innovate on Office 2007 System

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 4:56 PM by James Senior
Are your apps ready to take advantage of the Office 2007 System? If not then you need to get started, because the last thing you want is to be left behind. We've put together a website so that you can better understand the opportunity and leverage the Read More...
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UK Vista & Office 2007 Events

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:35 PM by James Senior
Envisioning Session (Vista & Office 2007) Date: 1 st November Audience: Senior BDM / TDM Purpose: talk about opportunities technology brings to partners. Registration URL: Nov 1: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313066&Culture=en-GB Read More...
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Vista Development Webcasts

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:18 AM by James Senior
Designing Application Installations for User Account Control with Windows Installer 4.0 in Windows Vista Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 10:00 A.M. Pacific time. (6pm GMT) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5629810 An In-Depth Look at Mobility Features in Read More...
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