Alt.Net UK 'In the North' Registration is now open
You can now register at http://www.altdotnetuknorth.info/
New URL for Agile Yorkshire (nee XPClub)
agileyorkshire.org is the new home for the Agile Yorkshire user group. If you follow the link you will see that next months subject is Test Doubles: An Introduction To Unit Test Patterns. Unfortunately I won’t able able to make this session as I will be out of the country, but sounds interesting.
Excellent selection of speakers at the May Progressive .NET Tutorials
You may have seen on a few blogs that Skills Matter are organising the Progressive .NET Tutorials, a 3 day event in May. I have to say that the selection of speakers is excellent including Hammett, Ayende Rahien, David Laribee, Gojko Adzic, Ian Cooper, Mike Hadlow, Scott Belware and Sebastien Lambla; on subjects such as NHibernate, Castle, Monorail, Agile Testing, Web Testing, DSL’s in C#, OpenRasta, Windsor WCF, MEF (Microsoft’s Managed Extensions Framework) and more… ...
Update on Alt.Net 'In the North' Conference
There is a bit more information on the the Alt.Net conference now at http://www.altdotnetuknorth.info/ Registration will open next week at noon on Tuesday the 24th February.
If Alt.Net is not to your taste.....
On the same day as the Alt.Net event I am organising there is a community event at TVP ‘WebDD'09 - With all the latest stuff from MIX 09’. We are spoilt, there is so much choice in the community events at this time of year
Announcing the Alt.Net.UK 'in the North' Conference
I am please to be able to announce that there will be an Alt.net Open Space Conference in Bradford on the 17/18th April this year. I had mentioned my intension of organising such an event at the last London conference, but it has taken a bit longer than expected to get sorted due to problems with getting the venue. The event will be hosted by Black Marble at their office in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and there will be space for 50 attendees. The format will be the same as previous UK Alt.net conferences. ...
Buzzword bingo in the cloud
At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts. Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint
SQLBits IV registration is open
You can now register for SQLBits IV in Manchester on the 28th March, hurry if you want to attend as these free conferences do tend to full up quick
My session has been selected for SQLBits IV
Thanks to everyone who voted for my session ‘Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System’, it was successful in the selection process and so will be on the agenda at SQLBits IV on 28th March 2009 in Manchester Hope to see you there.
Missing .NET framework installing a VSTO application
I have been getting the error “The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer.” (event id 4096 in Event log) when trying to install a VSTO application from both a ClickOnce deployment and a local copy. This is interesting as the .NET framework is installed (on my 64bit Windows 7 PC) and the VSTO application was developed on the self same machine (and works in Visual Studio 2008). ...