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2008 is going to be a busy year! - Events
11 January 08 09:13 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I've just blogged details about the up and coming Belfast Community Launch for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, as well as some details about the official Microsoft Launch in Belfast later in the year and details about...

Filed under: Events, Community, Visual Studio IDE / Addins, Office 2007, Vista, IT Pro, SQL Server, Developer

Uninstalling Applications that do not appear in the Add / Remove Program
10 July 07 10:43 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I recently instaled an appliaction (Laptop version of CRM Client which installed an instance of MS SQL Server 2005 express on to my machine which I wanted complete rid of, after uninstalling the application I was dismayed to find that the SQL express...

Filed under: SQL, Vista

Slaine's Multiple XBox Live Gamercard Gadget
24 April 07 06:23 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

I've created another Vista Sidebar gadget, this time to track all your XBox friends using there Gamercards There are a few gadgets already out there but they did meet my requirements, so I quickly put one together, using the same principles I used...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets, Xbox 360

Slaine's World of Warcraft Realm Status Vista Gadget
18 April 07 02:08 | Simon Phillips | 2 comment(s)

Last October I started my first Vista Sidebar gadget, and got a bit stuck in getting the alpha transparencies in the popup to work correctly see My first Vista Sidebar gadget . Due to getting a couple of emails from people to see how I was getting along...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets

"Orcas" March CTP Released
01 March 07 05:30 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

Well that's my weekend blown... The next version of Visual Studio has been released as a Community Technology Preview (CTP). There are two ways that you can download the CTP, the individual componants or as a Virtual PC image . My personal choice would...

Filed under: Visual Studio IDE / Addins, Office 2007, .Net, ASP.Net, Vista

Windows Vista Talks - Links
26 October 06 08:13 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Thanks again to Dave for coming up and talking about Vista last Tuesday. He's listed the web sites that he mentioned. Link to Dave Northey's Blog : Windows Vista Talks

Filed under: NIMTUG, Events, Vista

My first Vista Sidebar gadget
24 October 06 08:49 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

A while ago I did build a Konfabulator Widget (now Yahoo Gadgets) for World of Warcraft ( Slaine's WoW Realm Status Widget ). This widget went off to the Blizzard - Realm Status pages and returned the status of your favourite server. With playing around...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets

Laptop Graphic Drivers on Vista RC2
23 October 06 09:46 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I've got a Dell Latitude D820 @ work and I was a little disapointed with the Windows Aero performance once I installed Vista RC1 and RC2. According to my Windows Experience Index I was only getting a 2.1 which was the score I was getting for the graphics...

Filed under: Vista

Windows Mobile Device Center
20 October 06 02:26 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

In upgrading to Vista I noticed that ActiveSync isn't supported in Vista. It looks like ActiveSync is going to be replaced with the Windows Mobile Device Center it's not part of the current Beta 2 RC 1 or RC2 however you can download the latest beta 3...

Filed under: Vista, Windows Mobile

Everything you wanted to know about vista but were afraid to ASK!
20 October 06 12:04 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Just a reminder, next TUESDAY (not monday) is NIMTUG's next meeting. We've got Dave Northey from Microsoft coming up from Dublin to give us a "Techy Tour of Vista". You can register for the event here I've got my Laptop all Vista'd up with RC2...

Filed under: Events, Vista