A new book in the Secure Software Development Series, this time from Dominick Baier is now available from Microsoft Press. I reviewed a good number of the draft chapters, and got an early copy last week. What I love about this book is it’s complete. It...

AppDomains In doing some recent prototype work, the fact that WPF does not support multiple AppDomains came up. For most people, this is not an issue, but for certain scenarios, it causes some design challenges. The most common scenario for multiple AppDomains...

Just nu så finns det en betaversion av den första uppdateringen för Visual Studio 2005 tillgänglig för dig som är intresserad av att testa tidigt och ta möjligheten att ge konstkruktiv kritik och förslag på förbättringar. När Windows Vista lanseras så...

I was reading this months issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal, and I ran into the column " Illusions of Safety " by Pete Becker. Pete writes about enhancements to the C language, and I usually really enjoy his columns. This month was an exception. Pete basically...

Last week we kicked of the Small Business Desktop Sales Forums. These sales forums are offered EXCLUSIVELY for Microsoft Small Business Specialists to learn all about the Small Business Desktop Advantage offer for your Small Business customers as well...

I have had “lots” of questions over the last months as to when the ETA is for these adapters . RTM is Late October / Early November 2006 (word on the street) with media available in December....

Petzold strikes again. I just got my hands on Charles Petzold's new book, Applications = Code + Markup (MSPress). So far, it does a great job of explaining how to use Windows Presentation Foundation (code name Avalon). The book is divided into 2 parts,...

Many of you might have heard about Mozilla being invited to come to Redmond to spend some times with various teams around Microsoft. The overarching goal of Mozilla's visit is to ensure that Mozilla's users have a great experience when running Firefox...

Vista / .NET Framework 3.0 の新しいテクノロジでやっぱり注目されているのが WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) です。 Windows Form のテクノロジに、DirectX の表現力が備わり、さらにそれらを実装するためのXAMLが追加されており、非常に高い表現力をもったプレゼンテーションテクノロジです。私も仕事がらあちこちでいろいろデモをご紹介していますが、（今日も行ってきました。楽しいディスカッションができて満足）WPFの使い方で迷われるケースも結構あります。...

You can debug ngen (aka prejitted) code from VS2005 and also have the VS2005 IDE launch ngenned code. In practice, images are rarely ngenned as debuggable. And usually when under a debugger, assemblies are loaded with debuggable code-gen flags (In VS,...

Larry Magid did an article on speech recognition last weekend on CBS News. In the article he talked about his experience with both Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) version 9, as well as Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) included in the upcoming Windows...

Visual Studio Team System Chat Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team blog is a collaborative effort. Bloggers on this site include developers, PMs, testers, writers, managers, marketing, partners, MVPs, and more. It is the best place to follow the ebbs and flows associated with making our...

出版社にも本の中での誤記等について問い合わせが来ているようです。（申し訳ない！） ■P.147 に「 Ping ファイルを簡単に ... 」との記述がありますが、 PNG ファイルの誤りですよね。 【誤記】 間違いですね。 PNG です。 ■ P.168 の Form1_MouseMove プロシージャ内の Dim pen As New Pen(Color.Blue, 6) の記述が、 P.171 では、 Dim pen As New Pen(col, r) になっていますが、その説明がありません。...

I know, it sounds simple enough, right? Actually, it is; however, there are many people who still don’t use this feature or just how easy it really is to do. As such, I thought I would post about an online tutorial you can go through to learn the basics...

In an interesting blog posting on Windows Vista discussing the answer to the question, is Windows Vista just eye candy, or is a world class OS that everyone wants and needs, the author has this to say about Speech: ... it’s very easy to learn, and works...

This is one feature that I use extensively and it helps me a lot in quickly firing up the tools that I use frequently. We got desktop shortcuts, start menu shortcuts for programs, but how about making use of “Run” dialog shortcuts? That is exactly what...

I get asked for a list of blogs I read but also my teams' blog links quite often and despite Instant Search in Vista and Office I can never quite lay my hands on that list quickly enough. They're all listed here in my blogroll but I also thought it would...

Have you ever thought to yourself "I'd love to be able to quickly find the raw patterns & practices guidance on [insert your topic here] without having to sift through the verbose documentation and content at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices?"...

Members of the Team Data team will be available during today's VSTS Chat at 10am PDT to talk about the new features in CTP5. This is a great opportunity to show up and ask questions if you have been test driving CTP5 or are thinking about it. The customers...

Patrick noticed this article in Information Week a few days ago: ATI, which is being acquired by AMD in a $5.4 billion deal, is designing a version of its graphic chip that can connect to AMD's popular Opteron processor via Coherent Hypertransport, AMD's...

I just came across another product based on the DSL Tools. It's called ActiveWriter and it's an entity designer for classes that are persisted using the ActiveRecord pattern on top of nHibernate ....

It's not just verbs and nouns....

On October 2nd, Thys responded to the article about Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta's support of Basic and Digest authentication with the following request: "Great start, but how to configure the ISAPI filter?" Very good question! To help answer that,...

I am always surprised to find out how many people DON'T KNOW about the MSDN Virtual Labs . With Virtual Labs, you can "Quickly evaluate or learn how to build great applications for Windows and the Web through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can...