Hi! I'm Alfred Biehler, working with Microsoft UK alongside Claire in Microsoft's Developer platform group. My focus is on all our UK developers, and I've been given the opportunity to attend the MIX conference at Las Vegas. My expectations of the event was high, and I'm not disappointed! For starters: You can join in this amazing event ...

As reported on Scott Guthrie's (General Manager of the Microsoft .NET Developer Platform Division) blog, Microsoft has released a Hot-Fix Roll-up for Visual Studio 2008.   These hot-fixes address the following issues: HTML Source view performance Source editor freezes for a few seconds when typing in a page with a custom ...

Dan Waters has posted a series of introduction level webcasts on his blog. The content includes: Introduction Getting Started Setting up the Create Serial port communication in VC# Express Teaching the robot to sing More on serial port stuff Setting up and utilizing Bluetooth Driving the robot in a square Intro to VPL and MS Robotics ...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...

The Inspiration Tour is underway and our presenters Ed Dunhill and Ben Coley have so far presented at Manchester Metropolitan University and Staffordshire University. Check out their blogs to read comments from the students and to access links to some great accompanying resources. Next they are off to Bradford, Hull, Essex and Aberystwyth, oh ...

 We’re very excited in the Academic team, we’re just about to launch the “Inspiration Tour” and we can’t wait to go out and meet you all. Ed Dunhill           Ed and Ben will be out on the road during the next six months, so why not take a look at our Inspiration Tour web page to find out ...

We've been blogging about Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation ever since this blog started, a little over a year ago.   I'm happy to report that, these three technologies, which, along with Windows Cardspace, form the core of the .Net Framework 3.0, have officially been ...

Do you want to learn how to quickly convert your .NET Applications/Components to Service Oriented Solutions?  If so, then that's perfect, because I want to show you how easy it will be with the .NET 3.0 Framework and Windows Communication Foundation.  Register and attend my web cast and I promise very little PowerPoint (just for a bit of ...

I've just finished updating all of the Windows Communications Foundation Workshops to the Release Candidate 1 build.  There's been a lot of changes from the Beta 2 builds, so if you've had a chance to work the labs within the workshop you might want to take another look. :)    Here's a list of the 6 parts Part 1: Introduction to ...

Edward Jezierski just announced it here. ''The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Workflow Foundation, etc).'' This is the fourth Software Factory the ...