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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.

Getting started with the SmartPhone emulator

Okay, so let’s pickup one of those “learnings” from my last post. How do I get started with the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2006

Atlas June CTP Available

You can download it here. Make sure you uninstall previous versions (through Control Panel -> Add...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2006

MileageTracker

Everyone at work has been ribbing me over a little mobile application I’ve been developing. I don’t...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2006

Blogpost Magic Word

Someone asked about my “blogpost” magic word (in SlickRun – see earlier post). This magic word...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2006

VSTO vs Cypress

Cypress is a fully supported free add-on to Visual Studio to allow you to build Office 2007...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2006

Word Content Controls

I’m delivering a session later this week at the UK Office Developer Conference on “Microsoft Office...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2006

SlickRun

We expect to get questions at events when we’ve finished a presentation but it’s surprising how many...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2006

Atlas and ASP.Net Application Services

One of the demos I show at the Roadshow is how easy it is to hook up Atlas controls to ASP.NET...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2006

Atlas AutoCompleteExtender Control

I got a question at a recent MSDN Roadshow regarding using the Atlas AutoCompleteExtender with a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2006

MSDN Wiki

Also noticed the new MSDN Wiki site referenced on Soma’s blog. A chance for everyone to add to the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2006

WinFX has a new name; .NET Framework 3.0

Makes a lot of sense to me and the reasoning behind this is a theme we’ve been trying to stress at...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2006

Blogging from Word 2007

As you’ll have gathered from a test post earlier, I now know how to blog from Word 2007 and it’s...

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

Hotel Food Update

Okay, subsequent to my rant about hotel food (and burgers in particular) I’ve stayed at two hotels...

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

Default button on a web form

At yesterday’s MSDN Roadshow event in Manchester (if you were there, apologies again for the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2006

ASP.NET Nuggets

Many of you will probably be aware that the team I’m a part of generates a stream of short technical...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2006

Test Blog Post from Word 2007

I am at the DDD3 day today and Martin has just showed me how to blog from inside Word.

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2006

Is anything easier than falling out of the habit of posting to your blog?

Jeez - I can't believe how long it is since I wrote anything. The MSDN Roadshow has completely...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/19/2006

Visual Studio Tools for Office Blog

And of course, how could I forget Andrew Whitechapel's Blog...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2006

Custom Task Pane in Outlook 2007?

I was asked at last night's event if it will be possible to work with the actions / task pane in...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2006

Last night's MSDN TechTalk: "Developer Introduction to Office 12"

A big thank you to everyone that turned up last night to hear me talk about the 2007 Microsoft...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2006

Talking of PowerPoint...

I've been blown away by just how good PowerPoint 2007 is. Since I got back from the Office System...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/29/2006

What's new in Visual Studio 2005?

Marcus and I each did a session yesterday in conjuntion with one of our partners, QBS Software....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/29/2006

Why am I here?

In Seattle that is... Microsoft Office System Developers Conference

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2006

Jetlag Fuzziness

Less than a week ago I spent 24 happy hours on a 747/400 in the care of Air New Zealand (who did a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2006

New Zealand - A brief synopsis

Two weeks in New Zealand and I feel I'm suitably qualified to sum up their people, culture and...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/16/2006

Signing off for a couple of weeks...

Okay, that's it. I'm packing my bags and heading out of here for a couple of weeks. I just hope I...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2006

WinForms 2.0 WebBrowser Control and PowerPoint

I recently got asked the question why, if you use the WebBrowser control in a WinForms app to...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2006

The Monty Hall Problem

I'm sure many of you will be familiar with the Monty Hall Problem, especially those of you who've...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/21/2006

[UK] Upcoming TechTalk on "Web Security with ASP.NET 2.0 and WSE 3.0" - 8th March, Reading

This is a great opportunity to hear about some of the new security features in ASP.NET 2.0 and WSE...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/14/2006

Update - UK MSDN Nugget Videos Live Gadget

My MSDN Nugget Finder Gadget for Live.com (see this entry) now works in both Firefox and IE. I'd not...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2006

Win a trip to Mix06!

If you've not heard about it already, Mix 06 is a new conference focussed on web technologies that...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/03/2006

How we laughed....

Last weekend some I went along to The Bearcat Comdey Club in St Margarets (TW1) with some friends....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2006

New Microsoft Expression Product CTPs available

Today we announced new CTPs (Community Technology Previews) of Expression Interactive Designer...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2006

PDC 05 Sessions Website (in case, like me, you missed it)

While I was searching around for the script debugging session from PDC (see the end of this post) it...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2006

Script Debugging with Visual Studio

First off, let me say that you have lots of different options when it comes to script debugging....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2006

My Gadget Doesn't Work!

In my earlier post about creating gadgets, I mentioned Visual Studio debugging and what to do if...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2006

Strange things people do...

I'm in a little bit of a rush to get to the MSN office in London as I'm attending a user group...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/12/2006

UK MSDN Nugget Videos - an easier way to find your way around

I hadn't realised that MikeT has already blogged on our attempts to make it easier for people to...

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

Upcoming UK MSDN Events

Click here to find out about all upcoming events Here's a selection of a events in the pipeline for...

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

Building a Live.com Gadget (contd)

I can't believe I'm writing this in FrontPage but there you go (not because I don't like FP but it's...

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

Building a Live.com Gadget

For those of you that missed the announcement (shame on you!), Microsoft announced Windows Live and...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2006

Xbox 360 - What a waste of time!

[Firstly let me wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2006. My blog has been very slow...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2006

On the way to PDC

Writing this on the flight to Los Angeles contemplating how I managed to be quite so disorganised....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2005

ASP.NET 2.0 Nugget Series

I've now updated the clickable links for Nugget #2. Rather than posting a new blog entry every time...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2005

General ASP.NET 2.0 Links ASP.NET MSDN Developer Centre Download Visual Web Developer 2005 Express...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2005

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper II - Saturday 22nd October in Reading, UK

The first one was such a roaring success that Craig, Benjamin et al just couldn't wait to organise...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2005

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