The 9^th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming will be taking place in Limerick 10^th-14^th June 2008 you can get all the details on their web site http://www.lero.ie/xp2008/home.html

Looking at technologies such as Silverlight 2 and ASP.Net MVC framework the MIX essentials event due to take place in Dublin on 23rd May 2008 at the National College of Ireland my be of interest to some of you. You can get more details and register for free at http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/mix08/register.html

Here's a very useful site for anyone looking to learn more about Visual Studio Team System http://teamsystemrocks.com/tutorials/

The Irish Microsoft Technology Conference will be taking place on 3rd and 4th April in Dublin at the Cineworld Cinema Complex on Parnell St. It looks like it could be an interesting event tas here are over 40 sessions organised and it's be billed as a mini TechEd.

You can get more details form the web site http://imtc.firstport.ie

It's being organised by Irish Dev  they have loads of other events scheduled this year in a range of technologies, you can check these out here.

This is a really cool new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows you to debug into framework code, all you have to do is follow a few simple steps.

1. Start Visual Studio and select Tools -> Options

2. In the options dialog select Debugging -> General

3. There are two settings you need to change in here. Firstly ensure the “Enable Just My Code (Managed only)” tick box is NOT selected.

4. Secondly ensure that the “Enable source server support” IS selected.

5. Still in the options dialog box select Debugging -> Symbols, here you need to tell Visual Studio where it can find the pdb files and where it should store these on your computer.



6. Click the new location button and specify the URL http://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols as the symbol location and select a location on your computer where the pdb files will be cached by clicking the "Browse" button.

Now you can debug into the .NET framework code as you need. You can watch a video on how to do this by Daniel Moth on Channel9, or checkout Shawn Burke’s Blog.