Ronan Geraghty's Blog
Ronan Geraghty's Blog (Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft Ireland)
Inch deep, mile wide...
One of the reasons I applied for this job was to broaden my horizons a bit...Well be careful what...
Author: ronang Date: 04/29/2008
Combining Information Rights Management with Watermarking via an Outlook 2007 add-in
VSTO 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008 makes it incredibly easy to extend the office ribbon, and write...
Author: ronang Date: 04/29/2008
Diagnostics / Failed request tracing in IIS 7
Dave recently uploaded his launch demo videos, and the IIS 7 one is particularly interesting if...
Author: ronang Date: 04/23/2008
SQL Server 2008 for ISV Developers - Classroom Training May 15th 2008
I mentioned this previously, and now the date has been finalised - it's 15th May 2008, in Microsoft...
Author: ronang Date: 04/18/2008
.NET 3.5 SP1 - .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (ASP.NET MVC, Data Services, Silverlight controls etc.)
You can now download the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit which covers the technologies in the...
Author: ronang Date: 04/16/2008
Video - benefits of multi-targeting in VS 2008
Zoran Jovanovic, Technical Lead with Dell in Ireland was one of our local VS 2008 launch heroes....
Author: ronang Date: 04/10/2008
Video - Dell Global Build Automation Team on migration to TFS 2008
Frederic Meyer, Team Lead with Dell's Global Build Automation Team was one of our local VS 2008...
Author: ronang Date: 04/10/2008
Video - DeCare Systems Ireland talk about testing Java and .NET with VS 2008 Test Edition
Peter Buckley, Test Team Lead with DeCare Systems Ireland was one of our local VS 2008 launch...
Author: ronang Date: 04/10/2008
VS 2008 / SSIS packages
I recently received a question about opening SQL 2005 SSIS packages in VS 2008. So the situation is...
Author: ronang Date: 04/10/2008
Free classroom training on SQL Server 2008 (Ireland / Northern Ireland)
Are you an ISV developer in Ireland / Northern Ireland? I'm arranging a free 1 day course on the...
Author: ronang Date: 04/02/2008
Cool IMTC ad
Check out this ad for the IMTC (courtesy of GAMTUG). Pretty impressive!
Author: ronang Date: 03/26/2008
Dublin VS 2008 launch - screencast of my LINQ demo
If you missed the Dublin launch of Visual Studio 2008 in Tripod on March 11th, or if you just want a...
Author: ronang Date: 03/21/2008
Virtual Earth Javascript Intellisense Helper
If you're looking at creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications then you should...
Author: ronang Date: 03/13/2008
SQL Server Data Services - register for the beta program
At MIX last week Microsoft introduced Microsoft ®SQL Server™ Data Services (SSDS), a Web-facing...
Author: ronang Date: 03/13/2008
Innovate On portal - resources for ISVs in Ireland / Northern Ireland
If you work for an ISV in Ireland / Northern Ireland then you definitely should check out...
Author: ronang Date: 03/13/2008
Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint
Just a link post really, but check out https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/cc303301.aspx for...
Author: ronang Date: 03/13/2008
Office Live Workspace now available in Ireland
If you have a Windows Live ID with an Irish address, you can now register at...
Author: ronang Date: 03/05/2008
Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map (a WPF app)
Way better than a poster, this is a handy application that helps developers to drill down to each...
Author: ronang Date: 02/25/2008
CTP of VS 2008 support for SQL Server 2008
If you were at the Dublin community launch event on Feb 13th you saw an ASP.NET / VE / SQL Server...
Author: ronang Date: 02/22/2008
Zune Game Development with XNA Games Studio 3.0
Found this pretty interesting...I look forward to giving it a go, even with my lack complete lack of...
Author: ronang Date: 02/22/2008
Interoperability with Microsoft products
Want your software to interoperate with Microsoft products such as Windows Vista, Windows Server...
Author: ronang Date: 02/21/2008
Community Launch Tour 2008 Video
As per my last post, Dave, Bob and I will be hitting the road for the Community Launch this week....
Author: ronang Date: 01/28/2008
MTUG Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008
Over the next few weeks Dave Northey, Bob Duffy and I will all be travelling to Belfast, Cork,...
Author: ronang Date: 01/22/2008
Free Microsoft Press E-Book (Introducing Microsoft LINQ)
Preview the first chapter from any of these Microsoft Press Visual Studio 2008 titles here, and then...
Author: ronang Date: 01/21/2008
GET [snip]System/Web/UI/Page.cs
So I just set up debugging of the .NET framework source code as per the instructions on Shawn...
Author: ronang Date: 01/18/2008
Visual Studio 2008 certification, anyone?
Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification team to find out what is...
Author: ronang Date: 01/18/2008
The Lone Server - The last Windows Server 2003 left at Microsoft.com
Check out the video on this page about the life of the last Windows Server 2003 left at...
Author: ronang Date: 01/16/2008
Visual Studio 2008 on my Zune
So Santa brought me an 80GB Zune. Clare says that putting the videos from the Visual Studio 2008...
Author: ronang Date: 01/03/2008
Windows Mobile Developer Briefing 2008
If you're interested in Windows Mobile development, then you might want to theck out the Windows...
Author: ronang Date: 12/20/2007
Free 1 day training event for ISVs on VS 2008 in Microsoft Ireland
For those ISVs in Ireland who are using or planning to use Visual Studio 2008, we're running a free...
Author: ronang Date: 12/03/2007
ISVs in Ireland - want to showcase your Office Business Applications (OBAs)?
OBACentral may be of interest to those of you in Ireland who are developing OBAs - i.e....
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit – Now Available to Download
All you ever wanted to know about Visual Studio 2008, in a box :-). Well, downloadable anyway. The...
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Case Studies on Microsoft.com
So Visual Studio 2008 has tons of new features which can let you be more productive, produce quality...
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings now on channel 9
I like self-training, and a it doesn't get much easier than watching a video! The below videos are...
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual lab
Want to see some of the new features for Web Development in VS 2008? Here's an easy way : The...
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
SQL Server 2008 November CTP now available
SQL Server 2008 November CTP is now available here. This CTP introduces new functionality across all...
Author: ronang Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'd
It's done, officially announced today, so if you have an MSDN subscription you can download the...
Author: ronang Date: 11/19/2007
VS2008 news from Barcelona
Great to be in Barcelona this week for Tech Ed 2007, which kicked off today with the announcement...
Author: ronang Date: 11/05/2007
ISVs - interested in Windows Server 2008 Software Certification?
Application testing to achieve Certified for Windows Server 2008 or Works with Windows Server 2008...
Author: ronang Date: 11/02/2007
Action required: VS 2008 VPCs will expire on Nov 1st 2007
VS 2008 VPCs will expire (prematurely) on Nov 1st 2007. This is much earlier than expected/intended....
Author: ronang Date: 10/26/2007
Hands-on LINQ learning material now available
The good follks at InnerWorkings (https://www.innerworkings.com/) have just released 3 hours of...
Author: ronang Date: 10/25/2007
MSDN Mag Nov 2007 - focus on Security
Given our recent security event where I talked about the Security Development Lifecycle I thought it...
Author: ronang Date: 10/16/2007
Unified Communications
Not normally in my repertoire but I did a Unified Communications demo last week at a conference, and...
Author: ronang Date: 10/16/2007
When to choose...WPF? Winforms? Silverlight? XBAPs?
Are you clear on when to use say WPF instead of Winforms? Or, just as importantly, when to use...
Author: ronang Date: 10/15/2007
Want to see the .NET Framework source code? It's being released!
Microsoft today announced that coinciding with the final release of Visual Studio 2008 we will...
Author: ronang Date: 10/03/2007
TFS Best Practices Analyzer
Brian Harry announced the release of the Sept 2007 TFS Power Tools which contains the TFS Best...
Author: ronang Date: 10/01/2007
Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance
Want to know how Microsoft handles branching and merging? Then take a look at this great guide for...
Author: ronang Date: 09/28/2007
Early adopter information for ISVs in Ireland (VS 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and more)
We in the Developer & Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland are about to kick off our early...
Author: ronang Date: 09/26/2007