As I mentioned on my blog, a beta release of Cypress (or more correctly VSTO 2005 SE) is available for download Here.  It was of course a mere coincidence that we have just posted the show on Building Applications that Integrate with Office.

In the most recent ARCast, Ron Jacobs chats with Jay Paulus from the Office 2007 team about some of the cool new features in Office 2007.  One of the features that grabbed me were the Excel Services.  Not only can you host an Excel spreadsheet on a server for multiple people to access, there is […]

As we progress towards the looming end of yet another year it is time to get excited.  While the end of the year is usually a festive season regardless, this year with the imminent launch of Vista and Office 2007 we, as developers, have another reason to celebrate.  In this show I catch up with fellow […]

Following Dave L’s blog about providing useful resources for the community I thought I would add some resources and comments that I think should help:
Firstly in the show Athena mentions the Microsoft Australia site that lists the user groups. I hadn’t been to the site for a while so I was pleasantly surprised when I […]

Last night I was chatting with Rob Farley about user groups and he raised an interesting point:  Where do SQL Server user groups fit - are they IT Pro or they Developer groups?
This touches on an interesting discussion that really questions the traditional role of a DBA.  IMHO there are a number of roles that fit […]

After a few glitches here and there, the first show is all recorded and where possible the bumps have been removed. I this show I spend some time talking with Athena Pawlowski (dotNET solutions) and Adam Cogan (SSW) about User Groups. Having helped run the Perth .NET Community of Practice for a number of years […]

What better way to announce a new host for The Microsoft Developer Show than to use the defacto standard for testing any new technology - writing Hello World!  As you might guess this post has a number of purposes:
Firstly, it of courses tests that all the technology is working and that we can of couse […]