DDD5

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Javascript intellisense

The Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition has Javascript intellisense support just like Orcas.

I have been writing more Javascript recently, and this could really save a lot of time. And, it's free.

DotNetDevNet Bristol

I attended the first DotNetDevNet meeting in Bristol on Monday.

It was a brilliant event, organised by Guy Smith-Ferrier, with Mike Taulty as the inaugural speaker.

Guy explained the aims of the group. This is a free group, which is remarkable really, given the quality of speakers Guy has already lined up for the first three meetings.

Mike Taulty was entertaining and informative. I liked his approach to presenting LINQ, explaining some of the mysterious features that have been appearing in .NET recently and showing how, although they may not be things you have wanted to use, the LINQ team needed them. I found it was a struggle to keep up at times, it had been a long day... but fortunately Mike Taulty's blog has plenty of posts on LINQ and other topics to catch up on.

He also mentioned the Road Show Resources.

LINQ for SQL was very impressive. At first, I had what turned out to be inappropriate flashbacks to SQL select statements hardcoded in VB3, but then realised that this is very different. LINQ seems to offer a lot of power, and does an amazing job of figuring out the right way to behave whatever you do.

I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Alex Homer is another excellent speaker.

Hansleman on Silverlight

Scott Hanselman has a podcast on Silverlight.

Strangeloop

Strangeloop.net... not ready yet, check back later. Some kind of clever optimisation, using routers...

Geocoding

Rooftop geocoding allows you to locate properties correctly. A lot of current map applications seem to locate by postcode.

The Region

The Region is a web site run by Microsoft Regional Directors. It has posts from people like Richard Campbell and Scott Hanselman.

Silverlight

Tim Sneath announces Microsoft Silverlight, previously known as WPF/E.

Another way to sell shareware

ByteCommerce offers another way to sell shareware. They keep the payment for every twentieth item sold.

MicroISV in 25 steps

Leon Bambrick has reached step three of his microISV series, designing your website.

Where's Wally

You can find out on the BBC's Walrus Tracking map. Over the next two months the map will be updated to show the location of ten tagged animals.

It's a shame they didn't use Virtual Earth or Google maps.

UI design

Fun with check-boxes.

I don't like check boxes. Too complicated.

Run As Radio

Run As Radio is a new weekly podcast from Richard Campbell.

It doesn't seem to be available on iTunes yet, but maybe that will change.

DDD5

The proposed sessions for DDD5 are looking good.

Speech in Vista

An article on speech recognition in Windows Vista.

It seems there are new voices available, including "the Windows Vista Chinese synthesizer, Lili".

XML Tools

There are some useful XML utilities here.

Xml Notepad 2007 and XML Diff and Patch...

Windows Workflow starter kit

Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit is an example Workflow application

Search .NET

Dan Appelman has created a .NET specific search site using Google's custom search. It limits the search to selected web sites that Dan recognises as having good .NET related content.

$5 app

More on the $5 app idea.

Of course, there is more profit to be made from a £5 app.

Selling software

ShareIt.com - Selling software online