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The perils of OOF auto-replies

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:32:40 +0000

Combine them with mailto: enabled services like Posterous and you get tweets, comments, posts and RSS entries that you didn’t really want (and neither did anybody else). In other words, sorry about that last post / tweet etc.

I wonder if I can add Posterous to an auto-reply blacklist…

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Automatic reply: Posterous | Re: The New Arrival

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:53:40 +0000

Thanks for your mail. Unfortunately I’m now out of the office until Friday 6th November with no access to voicemail or email.

I will respond to your message as soon as I can on my return.

Mike

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The New Arrival

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:52:34 +0000

My beautiful baby daughter born yesterday. I can’t even begin to describe the experience but I did find myself spontaneously crying in Tescos earlier. Try to get a grip of yourself man.

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Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:39 +0100

It’s been a while since I did much serious blogging about Office applications but I see that Gray Knowlton has a post on his blog today from Michael Kiselman which outlines our efforts with respect to Office 2010 compat. In particular some of the tools, guidance and programs we’ll be offering as part of this initiative to ensure maximum application compatibility with Office 2010. Ie making the transition as painless as possible.

· Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program

· More about Office 2010

· Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 Site (including video highlights of the conference)

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Family Guy does social commentary via Windows 7

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:28 +0100

“Yeah, that only works when I do it.”

Stewie on Twitter

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People do seem to like this new Windows 7 thing

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:43:24 +0100

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/social/

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Spot the odd one out

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:30:26 +0100

From the new MSDN homepage. While there’s an argument that says we’re all a bit odd, it strikes me that MikeT’s caricature looks a lot like MikeT. Ditto for Eric and myself. Paul, on the other hand, looks nothing like this. Do we have an imposter in our midst?

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Visual Studio Myth Busting

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:21:00 +0100

Eric (with the help of the rest of the team) has pulled together a great little app that sets out many of the improvements between Visual Studio 2005 -> 2008 -> 2010 as well as capturing many of the myths we regularly hear that somehow make their way into folklore. Eric has a full write-up here. The application itself can be found here.

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Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta 2 Available for Download

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:58:29 +0100

Download Link for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta 2

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Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:53:42 +0100

As a big advocate of Silverlight Streaming I’m sad to see it’s going to be discontinued. There will be an alternative Windows Azure based service available but it won’t be a direct replacement.

The main purpose of this post is to highlight that if you *do* have content on Silverlight Streaming currently and you want to keep it, the link above has all the information you need. There is no firm date yet for when Silverlight Streaming will be taken down but it will be taken down.

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Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Available Today for MSDN Subscribers

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:29:56 +0100

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Available Today for MSDN Subscribers:

General availability is 21st October. Visit the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta site for more information, downloads, forums and to submit feedback.

There have been …

Great rundown of the new VS2010 SKUs and Features...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:55:08 +0100

…at ars technica

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AJAX Control Toolkit

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:38:41 +0100

Just spotted this post by Bertrand with information on a couple of new controls – the SeaDragon and AsyncFileUpload – and links to the list of bug fixes in this latest release. As always, you can see a live demo of the all the AJAX Toolkit controls.

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Looking for a book on ASP.NET MVC?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:48:16 +0100

David Hayden has a great rundown which might help you decide which best suits your needs.

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Jeremy Keith just made me smile

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:15:39 +0100

With his paranoid Brighton chalkboard

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Preview 6 of ASP.NET AJAX Library available now

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:04:39 +0100

Highlights

Better Imperative Code Syntax

Client Script Loader – automatically load the required scripts

jQuery Integration

Microsoft AJAX Minifier

Links

Link to the release

Blogpost from Bertrand Le Roy

Blogpost from ScottGu

Channel 9 video with James Senior and Stephen Walther

ASP.NET home page

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More on ASP.NET Web Forms Routing from ScottGu

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:49:14 +0100

I talked about using ASP.NET Routing for Web Forms in .NET 3.5 SP1 here and a little about what we’ve done in .NET 4.0 here. ScottGu takes things a step further with a lot more detail about routing Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.0.

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Windows Azure Migration from USA-Northwest

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:52:29 +0100

Windows Azure Migration from USA-Northwest:

If you’re on the Azure CTP (and specifically one of the early participants, eg a PDC attendee) then there’s a good chance you’ll have received an email like this one:

I do have a…

New to Silverlight?

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:04:44 +0100

If you’re new to Silverlight and want to learn more or you’re just curious about the capabilities and how to get started, Tim Heuer has recently updated his Getting Started with Silverlight Development series.

If you just want to get a look at what Silverlight can do, Adam Kinney has published a list of his favourite showcase apps. Most of my favourites are in there – and one or two I hadn’t seen before.

Of course you can find lots of other resources on the Silverlight.net community site.

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Expression Encoder 3 - Free and on Web Platform Installer

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:54:06 +0100

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) now has an option to install the free version of Expression Encoder. For more details, see James Clarke’s post.

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