Exciting news: About ten days ago, I left my job at DevExpress, in order to start providing training and consulting services. And guess what — my main focus is… DevExpress! So this is new. If you are interested, have a look at my new site: www.oliversturm.com [LINK REMOVED].
For my consulting business, I am now also associated with Thinktecture, a really great company in Germany. Wow. It feels like there’s so much to say, but I’m done already. :-)
The first dates are now out for my new DevExpress training classes. You can find all the information here:
Business Apps with DXperience WinForms
Business Apps with DevExpress XAF
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I hope you see you in June!
My friend John Martin asked me whether I could post this on my blog — I was a bit hesitant, but then I thought it will be interesting to a lot of people, and hopefully a few from the UK are reading my blog! John says he’s been asked a number of times to offer a WCF class in the UK, and now he can finally announce one: The WCF Master Class with Michele Leroux Bustamante, May 10-14 2010 at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, UK. For all the …
On April 13th, during Microsoft’s inaugural UK TechDays event, I’ll be speaking for the Edge UG at the main Fulham Broadway venue. This is part of what Microsoft call the Fringe events, community hosted events that complement the main Developer and IT Pro days. I will be speaking about functional programming on the .NET platform, using both the C# and the F# languages. Here’s the abstract for this talk:
F# is a new language in Visual Studio 2010, a hy …
Last week I was down in London and spoke at DevWeek 2010. As usual, it was a great conference! Thanks to everybody who attended my talks! I promised to put up my slides and samples — my apologies, it didn’t work out earlier. Here’s everything you need:
I just twittered a few minutes ago, saying “Seems like VS 2010 can still not show the same file twice in panels next to one another. Am I missing something?”. I’m still interested in the answer, if there is one, but meanwhile I thought I’d blog about something I’ve found interesting for a long time: the way our heads seem to work differently when it comes to applications of the words “horizontally” and “vertically”. You see, in Visual Studio (and that has been the same thing with MDI windows be …
I have a solution with several projects that I currently work on in VS 2008. I would like to use VS 2010 for it instead, to benefit from new debugger features etc… but it should remain on the .NET 3.5 platform, and I would also like to keep things compatible so the solution can be opened and built in VS 2008 later on, if necessary. I’m sure I haven’t looked at everything yet, and perhaps there will be issues down the line. But it certainly seems that this is pretty simple. Of course, right wh …
I just blogged about this problem I was having with Gallio/MbUnit. I don’t regard the issue as fixed, but I’ve certainly worked around it. I found that the delay happened when the tool Gallio.Utility.exe was being run during the startup process of Icarus. I noticed that the same thing happened when I tried to run other included tools like the control panel, and it also happened when using TestDriven to run an MbUnit test from VS. I had the impression that the tool was being run multiple times …