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2010 67

  1. FREE Visual Basic Upgrade Companion tool for VB6 to .NET
  2. Q&A: Where can I get architectural guidance on building applications for the Windows Azure Platform?
  3. New SQL Azure Development Accelerator Core promotional offer announced
  4. Details of 5GB and 50GB SQL Azure databases have now been released, along with new price points
  5. Internet Explorer 9 Preview 2 link + webcasts for developers
  6. Q&A: How do I cancel my Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special? (or any Subscription)
  7. Windows Azure Platform eBook Update #2 – 100 pages of goodness
  8. SQL Azure Roadmap gets a little clearer – announcements from Tech Ed
  9. Q&A: Will my favourite ORM Foo work with SQL Azure?
  10. Announcing gmStudio V9.85 for VB6/ASP/COM re-engineering
  11. Great User Group if based near Gloucester + Links from Entity Framework 4.0 session
  12. 45minute video on introduction to Windows Azure and running Ruby on Rails in the cloud
  13. Slides and links for Looking at the Clouds through Dirty Windows :-)
  14. Call for authors for new eBook on the Windows Azure Platform
  15. The best Windows 7 virtual desktop tool by far… Dexpot
  16. Register now for the FREE UK Windows Azure Self-paced Interactive Learning Course starting May 10th
  17. Open Source on .NET evening at UK Tech Days April 14th #uktechdays
  18. Microsoft Generation 4 Datacenter using ITPACs
  19. FREE Windows Azure evening in London on April 15th including FREE access to Windows Azure
  20. Rob Blackwell on interoperability and Azure
  21. Slides and links for Entity Framework 4 and Azure from Devweek 2010
  22. Poll on Entity Framework 4 – one year on
  23. Recent resources on Entity Framework 4
  24. Installing all the bits to demo Entity Framework 4 on the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
  25. Getting PhP and Ruby working on Windows Azure and SQL Azure
  26. Guest Post: What's IronRuby, and how do I put it on Rails?
  27. Links from .NET Developer Network session on Azure
  28. Jesse Liberty Silverlight Tour of the UK and Ireland in April
  29. Q&A: How do I find out the status of the Windows Azure Platform services?
  30. Visual Studio 2010 Conversion Wizard and Azure solutions – do not change target to .NET 4
  31. In person events Feb through April 2010
  32. FREE Microsoft UK Tech Days April 12th to 16th in London, including Windows Phone 7
  33. GuestPost: Introduction to Mocking
  34. Is Visual Studio 2010 RC crashing on you? Then install the patch
  35. SyncToBlog #9 Cloud Links that caught my eye last week
  36. Getting Windows Azure development working with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
  37. Vote for future Entity Framework and Data Services Features
  38. Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century
  39. MSDN Flash Podcast 020 – David Gristwood and AWS talk Azure
  40. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available
  41. Try Windows Azure in February and Win for the UK!
  42. Q&A: Do I get charged compute hours for every role in my Windows Azure Hosted Service?
  43. Being Agile with Visual Studio 2010 training from Ivar Jacobson International March 18th
  44. Part 3: What are your plans for using the Windows Azure Platform?
  45. Real World Azure Projects – Factonomy
  46. Free UK Azure Training Workshops in Reading and Edinburgh in February
  47. Q&A: I have a new business idea. How can I implement it cheaply using the Windows Azure Platform?
  48. Seven things that may surprise you about the Windows Azure Platform
  49. Q&A: What are the UK prices for the Windows Azure Platform
  50. You have 10 votes. Why not use them! www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com
  51. Results of Cloud Computing Survey – Part 1: Is Cloud relevant?
  52. New Windows Azure Platform online community in the UK
  53. QandA: How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows Azure compute hours?
  54. QandA: When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure?
  55. Windows Azure Platform, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine Explained
  56. Maybe see you at London CloudCamp on the 21st January 2010
  57. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 book available and it is from a UK author
  58. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Launch Date is Monday 12th April
  59. MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Paul Foster discusses Windows Mobile Widgets
  60. Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Windows Azure Platform
  61. Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special
  62. Windows Azure Accelerated Training Workshop March 30th in London
  63. Cloud Computing and Windows Azure Platform Survey – just 9 optional questions!
  64. My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09
  65. New User Group in the North East of England – 20th Jan Silverlight and Hyper-V
  66. How developers learn survey results – interesting
  67. Change of focus in 2010 to the Windows Azure Platform

2009 57

  1. Happy New Year and a thank you for making 2009 great fun
  2. SyncToBlog #8 Visual Basic 6 migration links
  3. SyncToBlog #7 Windows Azure Platform links
  4. Windows Azure benefits for MSDN Premium Subscribers can be used for live applications. Sign up from January 4th
  5. Multi-tenanted applications on Windows Azure and SQL Azure – added to my todo list for 2010
  6. What is Microsoft “Dallas”?
  7. MSDN Flash Podcast 018 – Michael Foord discusses IronPython
  8. MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Hadi Hariri talks Behavior Driven Development
  9. A great find – Software Engineering Radio. And are we 2 years behind the Java community? Or longer?
  10. Visual Studio 2010 Beta period extension is good news
  11. My most popular blog posts of 2009
  12. MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Phil Leggetter talks Real Time Web with Silverlight
  13. FREE MSDN Flash eBook of the best 13 technical articles of 2009
  14. Entity Framework 4.0 Resources gets a December 2009 Update
  15. Migration to .NET of 950,000 lines of Visual Basic code
  16. UK MSDN Podcast finds a new home – info on subscription details, ITunes, Google Reader etc
  17. MSDN Flash Podcast 015 – SQL Azure at TechEd Europe
  18. MSDN Flash Podcast 014 – Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe
  19. MSDN Flash Podcast 013 – Code Contracts at TechEd Europe
  20. Decorate your room with development posters, cheat sheets and more
  21. Feeling very Christmassy today – decorated the team logo
  22. Windows 7 resources for developers – in one place
  23. ClickOnce and Security
  24. Introducing code obfuscation
  25. Code Access Security in action – calling Unmanaged Code
  26. Authenticode and ActiveX controls
  27. Cryptography
  28. Authentication and Authorisation
  29. Visual Basic .NET and Security – a few posts are required
  30. Virtualization and Visual Basic 6.0 applications
  31. In VB6 we had the API Viewer, In VB .NET you get the P/Invoke Interop Assistant
  32. Enhancing your VB6 Application with Interop
  33. Adding to the My namespace in VB .NET
  34. That old friend Binary Compatibility – and a FREE eBook on COM Interop
  35. VB6 Migration tools are not as expensive as you might think
  36. Aberdeen Group report on Migrating from VB6 to .NET
  37. Visual Basic 6.0 Migration – due diligence is a good thing
  38. About to start a weeks holiday – final post, try a VB6 migration tool for free
  39. A random but interesting bunch of Visual Basic .NET reads
  40. I need to let this sink in… but interesting stuff. try/catch and filters
  41. UK Visual Basic 6.0 Migration Case Studies – 800K LOC moved to C#
  42. Visual Basic books in the UK were top sellers in the lead into Christmas
  43. Composite Application guidance for WPF and Silverlight gets a lick of Visual Basic paint
  44. Support statement for Visual Basic 6.0 updated for Windows 7
  45. blogs.msdn.com/ericnel has moved to IUpdateable
  46. Results of Visual Basic Survey (UK)
  47. Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard vs 3rd Party Migration Tools
  48. Screencasts on the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0
  49. A mocking framework especially designed for Visual Basic .NET
  50. New article on extending VB6.0 applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0
  51. Secure your Visual Basic 6.0 investment with Microsoft .NET
  52. VB6 Interop and TlbImp vs AddRef
  53. Heads up – The VB6 upgrade guide was written before we released the Interop Forms Toolkit
  54. VS2008 Upgrade Wizard vs VS2005 Upgrade Wizard vs Code Advisor
  55. Estimating effort to migrate your application from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET
  56. Survey on the usage of Visual Basic 6.0 in UK companies
  57. A new year and a new policy from MSDN Magazine

2008 72

  1. The perfect Christmas present for your kids? A new release of Small Basic
  2. Tracking down a bug in VB6 that only shows in the compiled EXE and not from inside the IDE - Use OutputDebugString
  3. Anybody for some free (and clever!) Visual Basic 2008 training?
  4. Feedback appreciated on draft screencast on VB6 and the options to move to .NET
  5. Co-Evolution for VB.NET and C# - and a new article on language futures in VS2010
  6. Comparing CodeArchitects VB Migration Partner with our Free Upgrade Wizard
  7. I nearly forgot to mention GIGO!
  8. Upgrading VB6 applications – a moment to reflect :-)
  9. VB6 Database code?
  10. ASP to ASP.NET
  11. Functional Equivalence vs Application Advancement (and Vertical vs Horizontal)
  12. Announcing https://www.unemployedunderscores.com/
  13. Microsoft releases yet another programming language - Introducing Small Basic
  14. Estimating the effort to move to .NET
  15. Interview with Richard Warnett of Financial Objects on their decision to go with Visual Basic .NET
  16. Rewrite vs Migrate vs Reuse vs Replace
  17. Moving from VB6 to VB.NET – time for a poll…
  18. WPF Performance issues? Then maybe this tool can help…
  19. VB links on Entity Framework, Data Services and WPF
  20. My low tech polls: show of hands at the UK MSDN events
  21. Do you have Silverlight Beta 2 code? Then you really need to test with RC0.
  22. Long strings in Visual Basic 2008
  23. The Silverlight team have made all code downloads available in VB and C#
  24. Another reason for using LINQ to Relational – avoiding SQL Injection attacks
  25. Moving between Visual Basic and C# syntax
  26. Q&A: Using both C# and Visual Basic .NET in the same Web Application
  27. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 announced – and the return of UML
  28. A very good showing of VB developers
  29. A few rough edges in our shiny new Data stack
  30. Another new find for me – MyVBProf.com
  31. Is this a good VB ASP.NET 3.5 book – or not?
  32. New find – Visual Basic 2005 development blog
  33. Believe it or not – I’m off on holiday again
  34. Visual Basic and .NET Framework Versions
  35. See you all in a weeks time
  36. Updated the list of events I will be attending/delivering sessions
  37. SQL Server 2008 is finished – break out the bubbly
  38. Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - #1 in the UK
  39. Class Visual Basic Column in Visual Studio Magazine
  40. Visual Basic vs C# LINQ syntax
  41. C# and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
  42. var != Dim – or why Visual Basic is the right choice for working with Microsoft Office
  43. Visual Basic Language Design Meeting on Channel 9
  44. 200 LINQ Samples in Visual Basic
  45. UK MSDN events now scheduled
  46. What a C# coder should know before moving to VB
  47. Great WPF application written in Visual Basic
  48. Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET
  49. Visual Basic samples for WPF book - Applications = Code + Markup
  50. Ged Mead on Windows Presentation Foundation
  51. Visual Basic vs C# - early adopters favour C#?
  52. Visual Basic Line Continuation Character (and more on VB10)
  53. 40% off Visual Basic .NET and C# Books ... (UK)
  54. My first MSDN Flash is live - July 9th 2008
  55. Intellisense - VB 2005 vs VB2008 + a great example of mixing VB with XML
  56. Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  57. Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and the future of VB
  58. And now...the end is near...
  59. Eric will be appearing in person...
  60. Eric will be appearing...
  61. Refactoring in Visual Basic
  62. Proposed VB sessions for my new role - comments welcome
  63. Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters
  64. UK jobs using Visual Basic?
  65. A week on .... making progress
  66. An advert for Goto100...
  67. Interview with William Morgan of Logica UK
  68. Interview with Artinsoft CEO Roberto Leiton Garro
  69. Visual Basic 6 migration to .NET
  70. Visual Basic popularity - with a twist :-)
  71. A few words about me
  72. Welcome to Goto100 - a C# free zone for UK developers!