I was delighted to find out this week that my session on Personal Area Networking was selected for Tech-Ed Developers this year. The session will cover a range of networking topics including of course Bluetooth. There will be a selection of demos which will support audience participation. It looks like...

I've begun uploading the content from the Networking session at Tech Ed. The rest of the example code will follow shortly. All the resources from the session can be found here:- http://inthehand.com/files/folders/resources/entry4195.aspx

The schedule for Tech Ed is now set. Now, I can't compete with Daniel on quantity , but hopefully can equal him on quality. However this requires help from you - I am hosting an interactive session and so you can help steer the direction of the session (within the scope of networking and Windows...

In November Microsoft will be hosting the twin conferences of Tech Ed Developers and Tech Ed IT Forum in Barcelona. Tech Ed Developers runs the week of 5th to 9th and covers 14 different tracks, one of which is Mobile & Embedded. This will cover the latest versions of all of Microsoft's Mobile...

Following on from the developer contest I mentioned a while ago , Motorola are running a series of developer summits later this year. They will be covering development across their range of platforms and devices, including Windows Mobile. They will have a UK event in London on the 9th of November, which...

At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the "2008 Global Launch Wave". This will include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server). The occasion will be marked on 27th February 2008 in Los Angeles - Mark you diaries...

We've finished all the writing for the book , and it's now winging it's way to the printers. This week I finished converting all my sample code to Visual Basic so that we'll have two versions of all the sample code in the book. I have to thank all of the people behind the book, the team at MS Press and...

Is Pastie McCode the next Barry Scott ? Well probably not, but if you are a UK business who is interested in getting up to speed with Vista and Office 2007 then you may want to find out more. http://ukvistaofficelaunchtour.spaces.live.com/

I've posted a Beta build of 32feet.NET to the Files section of the site. Please read the file description for a high-level list of changes. This release is the first to be built against .NET v2.0 and will resolve issues encountered with using the v1.x library from a .NET v2.0 VB project. It also consolidates...