Wow - another great line up at Vista Squad this month! On the roster this time round is none other than Jason Zander... "Who?" I hear you ask... only the General Manager of Visual Studio Developer Division! He'll be popping in to talk to and answer questions from the community about Visual Studio 'Rosario', .Net 4.0 and the 2010 roadmap. After last week's anouncements at the PDC this promises to be a great insight for all .Net developers. On top of that we have HP's Jeremy Pack, ... [Read more]

Hey Everyone, Yet more proof of our dedication to bringing you the coolest presentations the Microsoft technology stack has to offer, this month we have ROBOTS! Who can possibly say no to that! Paul Foster from the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio team will be along to share with us his "Software. Services. Robots" presentation, this will be followed by "UAC or not to UAC", a joint presentation by Aaron Parker and Dot Net Solutions' very own Ray Booysen. Details: ... [Read more]

The next Vista Squad meeting is confirmed :) All your favourite superheroes will be in attendance. Watch out for VS.TV launch!!!! Date: 24th October 2007 Time: 6pm onwards Location: Microsoft London (Cardinal Place) 100 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL Agenda: 6pm: Arrive 6.25pm: Introduction 6:30pm – 7:30pm Stephen Lamb: IT Pro Session 7:30pm – 8:00pm Break ... [Read more]

The next Vista Squad meeting is confirmed! All your favourite superheroes will be in attendance. In addition we have two guest heroes sharing their superpowers on WPF and Vista's BitLocker feature. Date: 24th May 2007 Time: 5.30pm onwards Location: Microsoft UK HQ, TVP, Reading, Building 3 Room: Memphis Agenda: 6.15pm - 6.30pm Introduction 6.30pm - 7.20pm BitLocker presented by Stephen Lamb 7.20pm - 7.30pm BitLocker Q&A 7.30pm - 8.30pm Food and Networking 8.30pm - 9.20 ... [Read more]

I am very proud to be part of the team that is launching a Vista and .Net 3.0 usergroup for the UK today. We've been planning this for a few months and I'm very happy to say its finally coming to fruition. Based in Berkshire, we're going to be running it out of Reading as Microsoft have kindly allowed us use of one of their rooms to hold the meetups. They have been very helpful and have stepped away from the running of the usergroup (a very good thing in my opinion) which allows us to run t ... [Read more]