The new Windows Vista exam (71-620) is in beta (October 31-November 13 2006).
The preparation guide can be found here : Windows Vista exam 71-620
Not sure if I have time to complete this while it is in Beta and i’m not sure if it is free or not – if anyone knows, please let me know.
The registration for DDD4 has opened.
02 December 2006 09:30 – 02 December 2006 17:00 GMT, London
Welcome Time: 08:45
Microsoft Ltd
Chicago 1&2, Memphis & Everest
Building 3
Microsoft Campus Thames Valley Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG
United Kingdom
Sign up link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032315483&Culture=en-GB
Strongly recommend that you attend – it will be a great day! Remember – it’s Free!
Also a Geek dinner afterwards if your interested,
Sign up link:
http://www.thehughpage.com/DDD4GeekDinner
Windows Media Player 11 final has been released and is available for download from Microsoft’s website.
Visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx
Jamie Cansdale has just released TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM. TD.NET is a great application to integrate all the main xUnit frameworks (such as MbUnit and NUnit) into Visual Studio 2005.
http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2006/10/30/TestDriven.NET-2.0.aspx
Definitely worth a download if you use TDD.
Voting for DDD4 has now finished and they recieved 211 sets of votes. Registration opens early November. Watch this space or visit http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/default.asp
Looks like the Virtual Side website is getting ready for TechEd Europe. For everyone who can’t attend, Microsoft have created a site which will contain on demand videos and interviews.
The site can be found at:
http://www.mseventseurope.com/Teched/06/Pre/Live/DefaultDev.aspx
It looks like Richard and Dave from NxtGenUG have a video already on the site. Keep an eye out for more from them while their at TechEd.
I forgot to post this, but on Tuesday Apple released an updated MacBook Pro featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo. I really want one of these babies…sure Vista RTM would look be great on it.
Base model is £1,349.01 (with Student Discount = £1,240.80) with free shipping.
Just need to find some money now 🙁
This is the first opportunity I have had to blog about the first MSP event I attended on the weekend. The event was organised so all the MSPs this year can get to know everyone, discuss various activities for the next year and get free stuff.
On the Sunday evening, the Academic team took everyone out for a meal. This was a great night, good food, good wine, good conversation and all free! I was on the same table as Matt Duffin, who is a intern at MS UK, so that was excellent to find out what he is getting up to.
On the Monday, we were on campus for a full day of presentations. Started early at 8.30 with Breakfast, then straight into presentations about how to be a good MSP. We then had more food, a discussion around .Net 3.0 and Vista, more food, then onto XNA and ASP.net/Atlas, yet more food (noticing a trend yet?) and a final talk about Office 2007. All really good talks.
Got some excellent freebies as well. Vista RC1 dvd, 256mb USB Pen, Cup, T-Shirt, Full MSDN subscription for this or next year and best of all I was given a free copy of the Application = Code + Markup book!!! Really looking forward to giving that a read.
Big thanks for Stuart Leddy and Matt Duffin and the rest of the academic team for a great weekend. Can’t wait for the next one. Shame I didn’t get chance to speak to some of the people from Microsoft more (like Mike Taulty, or Mark Johnston)
Just need to organise some events on campus now. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to send them to me.
I don’t usually post these, but I couldn’t resist with this one.
(Click to read as otherwise it messes with the layout when full size)
Microsoft just announced a new competition where you could win a trip to Mix07 and $2500 – all you have to do is submit a IE7 Addon.
Not a lot of information at the moment, not sure if UK developers are allowed to enter. I’ll update the site when the rules uploaded. I’ll enter if they are allowed as could be interesting to see how you can create addons.
IE7 Add-ons can be found here : http://www.ieaddons.com/
More information at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/addoncontest/
UPDATE: “we’re going to run a contest and open it up to the entire world (see rules and regulations).” I missed this first time round – sorry… Good luck everyone!