Chris Walker from ControlThink has created a very nice tutorial on how to use the Z-Wave home automation kit.  There is a prior article if you need to dim your lights in your home entertainment system.

Chris Walker ControlThink LC Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: $50-$100 Software: Z-Wave PC SDK Hardware: Z-Wave PC SDK Download: C# Download VB Download December 20, 2006 Controlling your lights with a remote is pretty cool, but doing it from your PC opens up a…

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day, captured here in its fourth iteration, is a one day event all about developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. The day is put together by the community for the community: there are no Microsoft speakers…

Fancy being an Xbox 360 games developer?A new era of garage computer games development begins with the launch of XNA Games Studio Express. Games for Windows and Xbox 360 can now be built by anyone. The power of the XNA framework and the tools provided is amazing! I attended the UK launch event…

This 30 minute talk explains how you can customize the business logic in Dynamics AX 4.0, in a way that makes future code upgrades easier. The talk also covers the layer technology of Dynamics AX, and will create a small customization using an approach with…

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005.  You can find the downloads for each of the Visual Studio Express products here.

David Sanders, a Microsoft MVP and the CEO of Culminis, speaks with John Weston about building IT community, how you can start a successful user group and what user groups can do to help the IT Pro world.  They also get a chance to discuss what they think of Office 2007 and tips to help you…

From the first idea to the final wrap, there's more to Microsoft webcasts than pointing and clicking.  Go behind the scenes to see the passion and drama that go into the making of these webcast blockbusters.  It's magic time. Got what it takes to star in a real Microsoft webcast?…

In the past year I finally purchased a Smart Phone. Now I have to say that on my previous mobile phones you could access the web but the screen was so small that I never really wanted to do it. But my new phone is a Palm Treo 700W which runs Windows Mobile 5 and is actually quite useful. I use…

In this video, Dr. Peter Ernst of CoCreate (a Microsoft Partner in Germany) demonstrates how their One Space Designer product is tightly integrated with Sharepoint to enable bi-directional communication between a CAD application and Sharepoint workspaces. A custom panel within One Space Designer…