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Guy Smith Ferrier

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• How Much Does Swag Weigh ?

  Posted: 19 Nov 2008 at 14:50 by guysmithferrier

  In the last three weeks I have been to PDC and TechEd Europe and at both events I collected swag for the user group. I deliberately took as little as possible on both outbound trips so I could carry back as much junk swag as my weight allowance would let me. On the PDC outbound trip my bag was 17kg

• TechEd Europe 2008: A Brief Moment Of Excitement

  Posted: 13 Nov 2008 at 11:43 by guysmithferrier

  Yesterday I presented Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight (non-TechEd branded slides here) at TechEd Europe 2008 in Barcelona. I was quite pleased with it and felt it went fairly well. I went straight from the session to the Ask The Experts stand to answer questions about my subject. So I missed

• PublicResourceCodeGenerator Fixed

  Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 10:54 by guysmithferrier

  A while ago I blogged about the solution to creating strongly typed resource classes for Silverlight so that the classes had a public constructor to allow them to be loaded by the Silverlight XAML loader. Apologies to the people who downloaded the PublicResourceCodeGenerator and discovered that it w

• Liam And Guy Do Virtualization

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 12:50 by guysmithferrier

  Following on from Liam Westley's excellent presentation on "Virtualisation for developers" at The .NET Developer Network in October 2008 Liam and I are teaming up to do our first double act at The Next Generation User Group in Birmingham on 12th February 2009. The evening consists of t

• DotNetDevNet: What's New In C# 4 ?

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 12:06 by guysmithferrier

  Next month is the The .NET Developer Network's Christmas meeting on Tuesday 2nd December 2008 and I'm giving two presentations. The first is hot off the press:- What's New In C# 4 ? At PDC 2008 Microsoft unveiled C# 4 and all of the new features within. So now we start the roller-coaster of c

• PDC 2008: Tuesday's Keynote

  Posted: 29 Oct 2008 at 22:31 by guysmithferrier

  Tuesday's PDC keynote is all about Windows 7 and to a lesser extent Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky introduced Windows 7 and Julie Larson-Green provided various demos. The new UI features in Windows 7 were loved by the enthusiastic US audience but t

• PDC 2008: Monday's Keynote

  Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 21:10 by guysmithferrier

  Monday morning at PDC 2008 brings the opening keynote with Ray Ozzie and friends. You can watch the keynote from http://www.microsoftpdc.com. The first 20 minutes is fairly miss-able as Ray talks about cloud computing and how and why we got here. After this Ray announces Microsoft Azure (http://www.

• DDD7 Registration Is Open

  Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 13:26 by guysmithferrier

  Stop reading this post and register for DDD7 now. Go to http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032393874&Culture=en-GB. DDD7 is a free one day event arranged by the community for the community on Saturday 22nd November 2008 at Microsoft UK in Reading. You can see the agenda

• NxtGen Coventry: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications

  Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 13:24 by guysmithferrier

  I?m hoping it will be third time lucky for me as I return to the Coventry chapter of The Next Generation User Group on Monday 8th December 2008 for another outing of the Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications talk. Here?s the abstract again:-The .NET Framework has supported internationa

• DDD7 Registration Is Open

  Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 12:26 by guysmithferrier

  Stop reading this post and register for DDD7 now. Go to http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032393874&Culture=en-GB. DDD7 is a free one day event arranged by the community for the community on Saturday 22nd November 2008 at Microsoft UK in Reading. You can see the agenda

• NxtGen Coventry: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications

  Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 12:24 by guysmithferrier

  I?m hoping it will be third time lucky for me as I return to the Coventry chapter of The Next Generation User Group on Monday 8th December 2008 for another outing of the Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications talk. Here?s the abstract again:-The .NET Framework has supported internationa

• TechEd Europe 2008: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications

  Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 16:08 by guysmithferrier

  I?m delighted to say that I will be speaking at TechEd Europe again this year and would you believe it I?m speaking on internationalization. No, it?s true. This time it?s the internationalization slant on WPF and Silverlight in:-WIN304: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications The .NE

• TechEd Europe 2008: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications

  Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 15:08 by guysmithferrier

  I?m delighted to say that I will be speaking at TechEd Europe again this year and would you believe it I?m speaking on internationalization. No, it?s true. This time it?s the internationalization slant on WPF and Silverlight in:-WIN304: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications The .NE

• Silverlight 2 Released

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 16:08 by guysmithferrier

  They said they?d do it before the end of the year and they did. Silverlight 2.0 was released on Tuesday 14th October 2008. To develop for Silverlight 2.0 you will need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express. You can get full details of what?s in this release here.

• Silverlight 2 Released

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 15:08 by guysmithferrier

  They said they?d do it before the end of the year and they did. Silverlight 2.0 was released on Tuesday 14th October 2008. To develop for Silverlight 2.0 you will need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express. You can get full details of what?s in this release here.

• DotNetDevNet: Oren Eini On Monday 13th October 2008

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 12:52 by guysmithferrier

  Great news! Oren Eini, author of Rhino Mocks and contributor to the Castle Project and NHibernate, is coming to the UK and will be taking time out to come down to Bristol for The .NET Developer Network. Oren will be presenting two subjects:-"Producing Production Quality Software" - Working

• DotNetDevNet: Oren Eini On Monday 13th October 2008

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 11:52 by guysmithferrier

  Great news! Oren Eini, author of Rhino Mocks and contributor to the Castle Project and NHibernate, is coming to the UK and will be taking time out to come down to Bristol for The .NET Developer Network. Oren will be presenting two subjects:- "Producing Production Quality Software" - Workin

• Slides For Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight

  Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 16:42 by guysmithferrier

  I have posted unbranded slides on my Resources page for the Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight presentation first shown at ReMix UK 08 a couple of weeks ago.

• Slides For Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight

  Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 15:42 by guysmithferrier

  I have posted unbranded slides on my Resources page for the Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight presentation first shown at ReMix UK 08 a couple of weeks ago.

• Silverlight And Strongly Typed Resource Classes

  Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 09:10 by GuySmithFerrier

  If you have tried to localize Silverlight applications using .resx files you will probably have noticed that strongly typed resource classes don't work straight out of the box. This post describes how you can overcome this. New in Visual Studio 2008 is the PublicResXFileCode