The first of two podcasts this week is with Joel Pobar, formerly with the CLR team at Microsoft.  In this show we look at what really makes the .NET Framework tick and the direction of languages, compilers, machine learning and other intersting topics.
And the show goes a little bit like this….[Listen to the Podcast]
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Cross over to take a look at Search .NET

If you were ever curious as to the process and tools that are used to make this show happen then read on here

I have to apologise for all the listeners out there of The Microsoft Developer Show.  Being a beta tester of Vista I ran into some unexpected technical issues last week that prevented the show being recorded.  Luckily my guests were very accommodating and I am hoping to have a couple of shows up this week […]

Over the weekend I was doing some background reading on various bits of the new .NET Framework v3 and thought it might be worth sharing these references.  If you have any other great reasource, please feel free to add them in the comments section:

Windows SDK

Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Cardspace
Windows Workflow Foundation

.NET Framework v3 Community

Windows […]

Following the recent podcast with Dave Lemphers I thought that I would point developers to a great set of resources that Mitch Wheat blogged about a week or so ago.
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The Visual Studio section is also providing a series of free e-learning courses centred around .NET 3.0 (Collection 5134 : Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET […]

This week Dave Lemphers was in New Zealand so it was a perfect opportunity to sit down and have a chat about life as a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft.  The general theme for the show was around the continual learning cycle that all developers have to engage with just to keep up with what is […]

Following last week’s show which discussed Certification, Rob decided to blog on the good and the bad of building your CV.  I would highly recommend taking a read of this post.

One of the most interesting discussions I had at TechEd this year was with Rob Farley about Certification and the MVP program.  Last week, in recognition of the work he has done in the SQL Server community and feedback around the beta exam program, Rob was made a Microsoft MVP.  I managed to corner Rob and […]

I’m not a big fan of reposting content that other people have already stated numerous times, but Daniel Moth has some exceptional posts that are worthy of some mention:

Retargetable (=256)
Share Code (#if FULL_FRAME)
Deploy to My Computer
Resx compatibility for Smart Device projects
Another use of partial types
Not a strict subset
Sharing Cursor.WaitCursor and InputPanel in VS2005
Dotnet changes
Speaking at MEDC […]

One of the topics that was covered in the show with Jeff Arnett is how you can aid cross platform development by using dual, or parallel, projects.  The premise is that for every desktop project, you have a parallel device project.  The projects reside in the same directory and use the same code files, which […]

This year we have not only seen a whole variety of Windows Mobile 5 devices hit the market, we have also seen the first UMPC devices being released. With the launch of Vista just around the corner (are you “ready for a new day“?) we will see operating system convergence such that Tablet PCs, […]