Mike Ormond's Blog
Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.
Debugging .NET Framework Source Code
I had my head down yesterday recording a few screencasts and missed this announcement - the .NET...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/17/2008
"How did we fix computers pre-Google?"
Another reference to Tim Anderson as his sign-off in this post, "How did we fix computers...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/17/2008
Burton Group on Office Open XML
I'm not so involved with Office Open XML these days - I passed the baton to Martin a while back -...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/16/2008
New Lenovo T61p
I've just got a shiny new Lenovo T61p to replace my Dell D820 but it hasn't been an entirely smooth...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/16/2008
MSDN Event: Microsoft’s Web Platform. IIS7 and ASP.NET 3.5
Thanks to everyone who attended this event on Tuesday night. I hope you had a good time and learned...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2008
Managing Browser History in AJAX Applications
I published a couple of MSDN Screencasts before Christmas on the new browser history support coming...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2008
New Windows Live Quick Apps Added
I see there have been some new additions to the Windows Live Quick Apps family - great if you want...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2007
Microsoft Buys Multimap
Interesting news given my interest in Virtual Earth, Live Search Maps and Spatial Data. It'll be...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2007
Call me a lightweight if you must...
Apologies to those who signed up for coffee and Silverlight in Oxford tonight but having struggled...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2007
It's Sunny but it's Freezing
Brrrrr
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/12/2007
Expression Blend 2 December Preview Available
Hands-up I missed this one. Now have it installed. Has the following new features: Visual Studio...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2007
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Released
As I mentioned at the ASP.NET 3.5 session in London last week, the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions were due...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/10/2007
I Miss Thread Compressor
With my Exchange mailbox reaching breaking point I was despondently scrolling up and down my "Folder...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/10/2007
SQL Server 2008 - Transparent Data Encryption
Andrew's turning into a really useful guy. He also has a great post on TDE here. :-) Technorati...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2007
SQL Server 2008 Backup Compression
As I was romping through Page and Row compression last night (while at the same time losing my voice...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2007
Silverlight Webcasts
Just noticed that we're running a series of Silverlight webcasts for both designers and developers....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
Combining Static and Dynamic Items in an ASP.NET ListControl
Say, for example, you have a DropDownList which contains a list of town names you pull from a DB and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2007
ASP.NET Demos
There were lots of people interested in the demos for An introduction to the Microsoft Web Platform...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2007
ASP.NET Book Recommendations
After our event last week An introduction to the Microsoft Web Platform (and how to do it for zip,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2007
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions and Silverlight 2.0
There's Mike and I in Birmingham on Wednesday talking about Silverlight 1.1 and ASP.NET 3.5 and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2007
Projector Recommendations
Any suggestions for a good, reasonably priced, portable projector? We have a need to buy these to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2007
Kicking Myself Over Visual Studio 2008 RTM
So you can now (as of yesterday actually assuming you can get on the server) get hold of VS2008 RTM...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2007
Silverlight Physics Engine
Maybe it's just me but I've always been fascinated by physics (well, mechanics specifically) and...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/08/2007
More Silverlight Streaming Fun & Games
Thanks to everyone who attended our "Developing on the Windows Live Platform" session last night in...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007
It's Good to be Back
Yeah, right. Long days with nothing to do but laze in the sun and order cocktails or drive around...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2007
Intermission
I'm going to be away for a bit as I get married on Saturday - the culmination of a lot of planning...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/04/2007
Last Night's MSDN Event on VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 for the Web Developer
Thanks to everyone for coming along and (as Daniel pointed out) missing the football (I noticed that...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/03/2007
Silverlight Demos
I've uploaded the Silverlight Demos that MikeT and I used at the MSDN event in Reading on Tuesday....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2007
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Avast, there! So it be. Ahaaar! Technorati Tags: pirates , silliness
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007
NxtGen UG Cambridge Last Night
A big thank you to everyone at the NxtGenUG meeting last night for making it such an enjoyable...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007
Silverlight Streaming in a blog post
I had a slight problem with the Silverlight Streaming video app in my previous post - sometimes you...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2007
Silverlight Streaming Test
function CreateSilverlight(){ Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({ source:...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2007
Slides and Demos from ScottGu's Mix:UK Sessions
Scott's posted the slides and demos and a note to say you're free to re-use these wholesale. It was...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2007
Facebook, a force for good?
Well, a force for anything you like it seems according to an article in the Observer yesterday....
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced
That's a big milestone for us. Scott (as usual) has all the news in his post here. There are also...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2007
More Nuggets - Building a Vista Gadget
I've made a few nuggets about building the Technorati gadget. I'm just about to publish these to the...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
As it's Friday...
...and I've recently figured out how to embed Soapbox videos in posts, this just makes me laugh...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2007
Content Controls & Repeating Data Nuggets Published on MSDN
Now published on the MSDN Nuggets site so you can enjoy them in their original high res format with...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2007
Live Search Maps Gadget
The "real" gadget I've created has now been published on Windows Live Gallery (quite a lengthy...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2007
Make our Gadget do Something Useful
I've added some functionality to the gadget we've been building in part 1 and part 2 but I think...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2007
Content Controls and Repeating Data - Nugget Part 3
Link to video on Soapbox (from here you can watch full screen) Technorati Tags: office , open xml
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2007
Content Controls and Repeating Data - Nugget Part 2
Link to video on Soapbox (from here you can watch full screen) Technorati Tags: office , open xml
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2007
Content Controls and Repeating Data - Nugget Part 1
Okay, slight problem publishing to the MSDN nuggets site currently so instead of waiting around,...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2007
New Nuggets - Content Controls and Repeating Data (or Can I Make a Table?)
I blogged back here about what is required to handle repeating data with dynamic documents (ie Word...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2007
Mix:UK, Hurry or You'll Miss It
There really are a very limited number of tickets for Mix:UK remaining. I know because I'm having to...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2007
So You Want to Build a Vista Sidebar Gadget?
I've spent a bit of time building a SideBar gadget recently and had a lot of fun doing it. I thought...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2007
Tafiti
I'm a bit late with this news but if you haven't seen it already it's worth checking out...
Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/23/2007