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WPF has simply the most powerful templating and visual engine that is available at the moment for designing your UI. A requirement came up in a project that required a watermarked textbox for displaying some contextual help. With WPF this becomes...
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Merry Christmas to everyone at Vista Squad. Thanks to all that made 2008 a fantastic year for us as a user group. We have a great lineup for next year which will all be published shortly so stay tuned for a cracker 2009!...
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I would just like to take this opportunity to say hi to everyone at Vista Squad and wish you well for Christmas and the New Year. Thanks go to you all its been a great seeing everyone and chatting at the meetings, I look forward to seeing all of you in...
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A chance to see the best in XNA and Windows Mobile all in one. We have two stellar speakers lined up for January's meeting. Paulo Barone has kindly volunteered to present on XNA game studio followed by Jason Langridge demonstrating the latest in Windows...
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Michael Lonnon has just provided us with the latest MSDN half-day Roadshow events that are taking place in February 2009. Its a sneak peak before the official announcement goes out on Wednesday, so head on over to sign up now. Find out about all...
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Jeremy Pack's presentation at this month's Vista Squad is now available for your viewing pleasure. Hyper-V by Jeremy Pack By Vista Squad View in HD Download 360p Version Visit Vista Squad's ExposureRoom Videos Page...
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Jason Zander has kindly made his slides from his presentation at this month's meetup. This goes well with the video we posted earlier. Keep your eyes peeled as I'm busy uploading the video from Jeremy Pack's talk as I write this. Slides download...
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Ian Smith has kindly edited and produced a video for the talk given by Matt Carter and Jason Zander. Much appreciated! Visual Studio 2010 By Vista Squad View in HD Download 360p Version Visit Vista Squad's ExposureRoom Videos Page...
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Following on from Gavin’s blog, and looking towards 2009. I believe that Vista Squad is uniquely placed within the user group community due to the fact that we combine both Developers and IT Pros within one group. We have certainly had a great year and...
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Jeremy kindly sent over his slides from the Hyper-V talk he gave at our last presentation. Thanks again for a great talk! Slides download...
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Thought I'd put together a post of some good Silverlight blogs for your reading pleasure. Awesome Silverlight SDK Blog Scott Guthrie Laurence Moroney Silverlight Cream Tim Heuer Jesse Liberty...
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It's fast approaching that time of year where we at Vista Squad start to discuss the future direction of Vista Squad and top of the "to-do" list is to start putting together a list of topics that we'd like to find speakers for. We already have a great...
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Wasn't last night a great session? A fantastic insight into Visual Studio 2010 followed by a great presentation on the benefits and pitfalls of Microsoft Hyper-V, What a great way to sign off 2008! Just a quick reminder that there is no session in December....
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As promised, I've uploaded my code and slides from last night's talk at Nxtgen Cambridge. Many thanks to Chris Hay for allowing me to spout my MVVM pattern talk at the guys. I hope it was enjoyable and you managed to learn something from the...
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I’ve just come back from an excellent and well rounded evening, Microsoft After Hours the Sequel hosted at Microsoft’s London Site, were Viral Tarpara http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara , Jamie Burgess http://blogs.technet.com/carpediem and Paul Foster...
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Seeing a lot of this lately. Not great....
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Just a reminder to all you WPF and Silverlight developers out there that I'm presenting at Nxtgen Cambridge on the MVVM pattern. We will look at how to design a WPF application and spend quite a lot of time deep in code. I have one more space in the car...
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If you’re into the latest information on Windows 7 I would highly recommended that you check out the Win HEC website www.microsoft.com/whdc/WinHEC The on demand videos are great, packed full of interesting tech on the latest development’s and Microsoft...
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Well I guess this next meeting of Vistasquad is proving to be popular, with 17 new user's all signed up to our website within the last 24 hours. So welcome to you newbie’s, hope you have signed up for the 19th November event, come on don’t by shy, we...
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This is the 3 rd event that Microsoft have run in their “After Hours” vein, for which I attended both of the previous sessions and would highly recommended going to. There very entertaining and informative, giving a lighter side to the technologies that...
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I just watched the keynote speech from the PDC 2008, were Ray Ozzie introduces Windows Azure. Again WOW! This seems such an amazing time to be involved in computing whether being a Developer or even an IT Pro. There seems to be so much happening at an...
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Exciting times at Vista Squad these days - This month we've got a treat for the developers among us! Last month we gave you robots, this month Microsoft Corp's Jason Zander (General Manager of the Visual Studio Developer Division) will be popping in to...
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At the Vista Squad event that happens on the 15th of October I'll be co-presenting on UAC with Aaron Parker . He'll be doing the majority of the talk and I'll be presenting on why devs (or at least just me) develop in admin mode. Hopefully...
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Yes, finally we’ll have an RTM product to build with. I cannot wait to finally have a stable API and something we can push to customers. More info at the press release with news that the RTM will be available to download on the 14th. No news...
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