.NET and J2EE Interoperability article

Amer Chaudhry has a good high level view of .NET / J2EE interopability:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-platform/J2EENet_interoperability.aspx
It will tell you all you need to know to get a background in this area if you have never looked at J2EE before.  
I’ve also covered this topic inside my company recently, and am considering writing something about it on this blog in 2008. [...]

WPF Part 2 – Using a Grid Control

UPDATE: 04/24/2009
After a year this still gets a few views! I’ve updated the code to make it look better.
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UPDATE: 12/21/2007
Hello Channel9 ppl
I have no idea why this article has got into a debate about web design!
Anyway, this is not about a complete user interface. I might address complex user interfaces later, but frankly [...]

Get into WPF – Part 1

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create a nice WCF Services demo, and everyone loved it?
Well, that is the problem.. I wanted a spartan interface because I wanted to show off the services and NOT the UI.
Nevertheless after to showing to a few people, I realised that the ‘plain’ Windows Forms client actually put people [...]

Visual Studio 2008 Project Compatibility

UPDATE: 16th December: I felt it fair to update the post with my findings
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At my company we have a great DSL based tool for generating WCF Services.
However, because of various reasons, the tool will only run under Visual Studio 2005 and not the all new and great Visual Studio 2008.
That is a pity, because I wanted to [...]

The State of Visual Studio Team System

This article from November 20th has a nice critique on how Team Foundation Server and Team System are going on the advent of the VS2008 launch:
http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid8_gci1282412,00.html
Microsoft has made a great start with Team Foundation Server, and it has every-ones attention in the Microsoft space.
The question is really how much momentum they can keep behind it. The lack of [...]

Performance Point 2007 Learning Resources

Microsoft Performance Point 2007 looks pretty cool, but it is also rather new. Here are some resources to get into it:
Microsoft Training : http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/resources/training.aspx
Kevin White : http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinwhite/default.aspx
Nick Barclay: http://nickbarclay.blogspot.com/
UPDATE Feb 2nd:
 There are some downloadable books on the MS site:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161069.aspx

Purrcast

A great idea for a Podcast… the sound of cats purring
 http://purrcast.com/
The Blog has a biography of every cat it features.