Liam Westley

Thanks to Fran Hoey and all the people from Chester Devs. It was a hard drive up and back but the enthusiasm of the audience, with some great questions…

Have you wondered where the graphics equaliser in the Windows 8 version of Windows Media Player has moved? It’s certainly not on the menu option you’d…

UPDATE: I believe (I have not tested this scenario yet) you can use your existing Windows 8 partition to create a recovery USB drive that can be used to…

Thanks to all the people who helped organise the cracking conference that is DDD North 3, returning to Sunderland, and the great facilities at the…

Many thanks to the team in Cambridge for an awesome first conference DDD East Anglia. I definitely appreciate how each of the different areas have their…

Many thanks to Andy Westgarth and his team for organising a fantastic conference at the rather elegant Bradford University School of Management. Also, a…

As I wasn’t voted in with my nominated sessions I presented a 20/20 talk on the new async functionality coming with the .Net Framework. This was based on…

Here in the UK we recently had a long weekend due to a public holiday. So what better time to sit back in a comfy chair with the laptop and read the…

If you are interested in software development including a heap of great open source frameworks, then get over to the DDD9 web site and vote for some…

Thanks to everyone who voted me onto the DDD SouthWest agenda, and a big thanks to all who attended the session and took the time to give feedback to rank…

Thanks to everyone who voted me onto the DDD8 agenda. It’s always an honour to have a topic voted into a conference by an audience of fellow developers,…

UPDATE 10 May 2010 : I finally discovered where the Remote Desktop team documented this process last December and thought it might be useful;…

UPDATE: 5th January 2012 If the client machine does not have SQL Server Configuration Manager, then head over to this MSDN article,

After reading Tim Anderson’s blog article (here) on his installation of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 I glibly added a comment that R2 now includes PowerShell…

UPDATE – 12th November 2013 - Windows 8 instructions

Thanks to Alex and Matt for organising another top DevEvening user group in Woking and for everyone who attended my talk on Hyper-V for Developers.…

Just a clarification of my comment on a recent release of VirtualBox supporting 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts. This is NOT a solution for a system which…

I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 social science documentary strand Thinking Allowed earlier in the week (from my backlog of DAB radio recordings) and…

I've finally moved my main development environment on my desktop to Vista, and had the issue that I still do quite a bit of work for one client in Visual…

Apologies for the delay but you can now access all the materials from my DDD3 Presentation, 'How to start your own Software Development company for £5000'…

The free C# ZIP library (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Download.aspx) is great for reading and creating ZIP files. However, I came…

My PowerPoint presentation from the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! from 22 October 2005 is now available for downloading at

October 22nd sees the second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day. Real developers providing presentations to other developers, related to.NET technologies and…