The Orders subsystem in Commerce Server 2007 offers some really powerful new APIs which can make your life easier. Some of the various operations and scenarios enabled by these APIs are: Searching for Baskets and Orders Deleting Baskets (probably...

In stark contrast to my outlook on human relationships, when it comes to devices, I'm a use 'em, abuse 'em, and lose 'em kinda guy. I buy devices rarely, use them intensely for a short period of time, and then go back to my hohum, relatively...

A little while ago I showed you how to gather information about how much traffic a virtual network had experienced in total.  However it is also possible to get information about the traffic that has specifically occurred in the last minute. ...

I recently mentioned on this blog that the Ecma TC45 committee had released Working Draft 1.3 of the Office Open XML Document Interchange Specification. Today, I'd like to give a little more information about what's covered and how it's organized....

There really is no migration from beta to RC for our adapters.  It's as easily as uninstalling beta and installing the RC version of the Commerce Server 2007 Biztalk Adapters.  However, there is one addition that I would like to point out. ...

The results are in for the Sixth Annual eWeek Excellence Awards and Team System wins the Application Development category!  eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly" and a Ziff Davis Media publication, announced today the winners in its...

I noticed a subtle change on the SMH Tech site, at the bottom of most stories How Web 2.0! I found an explanation - Makeover for the tech pages I wonder why the editors didn't lock into some local aussie services? [ Currently Playing : We Are The...

If i said that I wasn't happy WinHEC is over i'd be lying.  But not by much - I had a very good time this year.  I had a number of very interesting discussions with people - about how to use UMDF for their projects, about general kernel-mode...

How to leverage the new .NET classes provided in the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Trace namespace to start and stop profiler traces and receive events in real time from SQL Server 2005...

Today’s sample shows how to create a web crawler in the background. This crawler starts with a web page, looks for all links on that page, and follows all those links. The links are filtered to my blog, but generalizing the code to search the entire web...

As I said in a previous post, I’m really behind on blogging.  Back in the March / April timeframe, I was interviewed by Pat Phillips, the Editor-in-Chief for Microsoft’s MainFunction, a website targeted at high school computer science professors....

GregH asked me an interesting question at WinHEC today - one for which I didn't immediately know the answer.  He was wondering whether the new DMA DDIs (Get|PutScatterGatherList) would return a single SG entry for each page, or whether they would...

I posted an item this morning indicating that the server that I use to host my troubleshooting tools has been down for the past couple of days.  I'm happy to report that it is back up and running now, so you will be able to download any of the troubleshooting...

I have so much blogging to get caught up on, but such is the life of the release PM, as I claim to have been for the past month.  I hope the releases on CodePlex make up for the lack of entries =) Several weeks ago, I got an awesome opportunity...

Let’s see what this looks like on Community Server…...

A few weeks ago I did an online (LiveMeeting) talk about the Toolkit.  It finally got pushed out onto the download servers, so you can watch it here as a streaming video (WMV).  Note the first few minutes the screen will be blank (you'll...

My post on Windows CE x Windows Mobile differences generated a lot of interesting comments, more than I had anticipated :-). Thanks to all of you who have posted your comments/questions to the blog, private messages, as well as all discussing on web forums....

I saw this article up on betanews this afternoon saying that just 24 hours after going live, there were already 200,000 downloads of Beta 2. I thought that was pretty impressive and asked a few folks about it. It turns out that we're actually now...

Ya está disponible el Teacher Starter Kit (solo en inglés por el momento) que puedes utilizar como base para crear un sistema de control de estudiantes, cursos, asignaciones y notas usando los productos Express. Este Starter Kit puede ser descargado...

Para aquellos desarrolladores que estaban esperando las versiones en español de los productos Express (VB, C#, C++, WebDev, J#, SQL) ya pueden descargarlos del siguiente link: www.microsoft.com/spanish/msdn/vstudio/Express/default.mspx Recuerden...

When you are building high-availability, high-traffic systems, it’s all about redundancy. This afternoon, I met with Matt M, in our Ops department. The Ops group is responsible for making sure that our software gets deployed properly, and for maintaining...

If you don't mind my thick Italian accent, tomorrow I have yet another webcast on Infocard! Abstract As e-commerce moves from a transactional to a customer-centric process, winning and maintaining the trust of your customers becomes more important than...

I had the day off today, though I did end up going to a meeting or two with some SQL Server folks (they set the meeting up before I was told we were getting the day, and I didn't want to make them suffer for the tardy notice!). In between meetings, I...

We received the following e-mail from khurram: "I am using VSTS Workgroup Edition, and want to enforce certain policies to Work Items in Project eg - Project Administrator can update "any" work item- Only "Assigned" person can mark the work item "Resolved"-...

I am very excited that we shipped B2!!  Wahoo!  Not only am I excited because I've been working on the product a long time but also because we made so much great performance improvements in WPF in B2 that everyone gets to see! Yes, there are...