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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.

[UK] MSDN Roadshow Dates Announced

Get them while they're hot. Well, pencil them in your diary at least. Registration is not open yet...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006

MOSS 2007 - KPI webpart outside of a dashboard?

Some also asked me at last night's event whether it was possible to host the KPI webpart on pages...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006

SharePoint 2007 Licensing

Many thanks to all those who made the trip out to the Microsoft Campus in Reading last night to...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006

Mine's white, no sugar

This is the sort of web app I wish I'd had the inspiration to create. While it doesn't really work...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2006

[Sample Code] TravelNews now available for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2

Last night I blogged about my TravelNews demo site and I've already had requests for a version that...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2006

[Sample Code] My TravelNews Mashup Site

I get so many requests for this code after I've done an ASP.NET AJAX session that I decided I had to...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006

TechEd Developers - Almost like being there. Almost

My colleague Paul Foster recently took on a new role as an "Enthusiast Evangelist". Now TBH (don't...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006

Office RTM, .NET Fx 3.0 RTM. What next? (Vista I guess)

Yep, Office has released to manufacturing and .NET Fx 3.0 is available for download. These are both...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/08/2006

Yep, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2 has now released. It's a tad embarrassing as I haven't yet moved to...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2006

ASP.NET AJAX Nuggets Now Live

I recorded a few introductory ASP.NET AJAX Nuggets a couple of weeks ago and I'm pleased to see...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006

Vista Shell Features that didn't make the cut

Here's a great post that I found via Daniel's blog about Vista shell features that didn't make the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006

My Nabaztag Suspicions Confirmed

Since my post of last night, I've stumbled across the "Nabaztag Cruise Control plugin". From the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2006

Nabaztag

Okay, I'm curious about this thing. Something about it makes me think it's a very clever device with...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2006

Nurburgring Again

With reference to my trip to the Nurburgring back in June, and my comment about seeing a camper-van...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2006

Word 2007 Content Controls & Custom XML Parts

A while back I posted on a quick and dirty helper app I'd written to attach custom XML parts to a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2006

Website Debugging in Visual Studio on Vista

I've seen this question asked a few times now (and of course I ran into the issue myself a while...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2006

ASP.NET AJAX Beta Released

Today sees the release of the first ASP.NET AJAX beta after a series of ASP.NET Atlas CTP releases....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2006

What's new in MOSS 2007

The latest MSDN Flash Newsletter carries my (very potted) article on Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2006

I have my own linkid on ms.com

Maybe I should just retire now? https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5598307 Maybe I should have been...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2006

Atlas DragOverlayExtender Quirk

Well I suppose the title of this post should really read "ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2006

Another Live Writer Plug-In - Snipping Tool

Clearly inspired by my Code Formatting Plugin, Mike's gone off and written a snipping tool plugin...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006

Call for Speakers - DDD IV, Saturday 2nd December 2006

Microsoft Campus and DDD IVYes, believe it or not it's almost upon us again. Developer Developer...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006

Loading Images in the Ribbon

Martin has a nice post over here about adding images to items in the Ribbon. We were chatting about...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2006

Office 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh and VSTO 2005 Second Edition Beta Available

Get them while they're hot. They're lovely. Only half a denar [caveat - not strictly true at current...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2006

InfoPath - How can I submit a form with validation errors?

This question has been put to me a couple of times so I thought I'd share my findings. It's not that...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006

Expression Web Designer becomes Expression Web - Get Beta 1 Now

As rebrandings go, it's unlikely to win "Most innovative product rebranding of the year" but...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006

Top 10 Microsoft Bloggers

I'd be pretty pleased with myself if I ever made it onto that list so I'll bet Eileen's feeling...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2006

Tag Clouds, Zoom Clouds, MO Clouds

Jonathan very kindly mailed me and pointed me at ZoomClouds which would have done exactly what I...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2006

Tag Clouds

Last week I think I started to suffer from "Blog widget envy". Everywhere I looked there were...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2006

Upcoming Developer events [UK]

Holiday season is over and that must mean it's time for the events season to kick off again!. We've...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2006

Source Code Format Plug-in, now with C++ Support

Due to popular demand I added C++ language support to my source code format plug-in for Live Writer....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2006

Live Writer Source Code Format Plug-in

I have to confess that I didn't plan to install Live Writer - I was quite happy with blogging from...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2006

Word 2007 Content Controls - The Quick and Dirty Helper App

In my last couple of posts (here and here), I've been talking about the goodness that is Word...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2006

Word 2007 Content Controls, the Custom XML Store and XML Mappings

In my last post I referenced an excellent blog post on modonovan’s blog which talks you through how...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2006

Word 2007 Content Controls

I really like the concept of content controls in Word 2007 for a couple of reasons; robustness and...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/10/2006

Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos now Online

Microsoft Office System DevCon Videos Actually they’ve probably been there for a while and just...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006

Compact Framework - Setting the input mode to “numeric”

For certain fields in my application, I want to set the input mode (usually to numeric – eg for the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006

Determining the Application Directory in Compact Framework

My business mileage application serialises a variety of data (eg journeys entered, known journey...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2006

Mobile Phone Throwing

While I often feel like throwing my mobile phone across the office for various reasons, it was only...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2006

Installed Office 2007? Got some feedback?

The feedback tool lets you tell us what you like (and don’t like) about Office 2007. You can provide...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2006

InfoPath saved my life (well, almost)

It saved me a bit of time at least. Back to my SmartPhone application for tracking business mileage....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/03/2006

Atlas July CTP Available

Wow, it seems like only a couple of days ago I installed the June CTP (but then I have been on...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2006

For those of you who joined us in Canary Wharf on Tuesday evening to see Ian, Paul and me talking...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/27/2006

Setting the tab order in a Compact Framework 1.0 application

Another one of my “learnings” from developing a CF 1.0 application (which I have to say is working a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2006

You smell of cheese

A recurring conversation I have on MSN Messenger goes along the lines of: MikeO says: Hi -...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/13/2006

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Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/10/2006

Another MSDN Roadshow Date [UK]

I can’t see it on the MSDN website yet but if you missed out on the various Roadshow dates we’ve run...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2006

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