As Jason mentioned in his last post , several factors led Microsoft to invest in records management functionality for the 2007 release of Office. One factor was feedback we received from customers about our Information Rights Management features. But...
Join the chat on April 19th, 2006 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific time.
Our team, Team System Developer and Tester Tools (Unit Testing, Web Testing, Load Testing, Profiling, Code Analysis (FxCop and PREFast) and Code Coverage) is having a MSDN chat on...
At work and at home, I constantly listen to radio from Israel (Galgalatz, if you are interested). Everytime I open any media file though, the radio stops and I need to restart it. Annoying. This utility comes to solve that....
We're kicking off the new quarter with three new sessions. Check it out:
Session #1: Make it Simple – Language Enhancements in the .NET Framework 2.0
Simplify your coding and increase your productivity with key language enhancements in C# and Visual...
The latest WCF product documentation is now posted on the WCF portalhttp://windowscommunication.net, and will be updated every two weeks.
See Documentation Updates here: http://windowscommunication.net/default.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=45
Direct Download...
Service Pack 1 of the .Net Compact Framework version 2 (Beta available in a few days on MSDN) includes a new utility called the .Net Compact Framework Remote Performance Monitor (RPM). The RPM helps you diagnose performance problems in your application...
If you looked at the XML file posted in my previous post, you may have noticed an interesting tidbit inside the definition for the "c_tire_blurred_key" model information. This is the <Visibility> tag which seems to contain some sim-related paramerers....
Mark Groves, one the of PMs on the Visual Studio Team System for Software Architects (VSTESA) team I've been working with to identify integration points (both long term and short term) between VSTESA and our Threat Analysis & Modeling tool, has...
Last week Scoble came by my office and I showed him some of the WPF/E demos we presented at Mix ’06 and a prototype of our CLR integration. We chatted for about 45 minutes and his trusty camera was running the whole time. The video should...
One feature that isn't availible in the source for the XmlSiteMapProvider we released is the ability to update when the web.sitemap file has been updated. The reason we couldn't provide this is that the mechanism we use inside XmlSiteMapProvider...
You may know that Dr. Dobb's Journal is launching a new portal site where experts in the industry blog about schtuff. What you probably don't know - unless you've been nosing around since they went live last week - is that they've asked *me* to be their...
Have you ever worked on a problem and kept working on it and working on it until you knew you'd created a solution to the problem that was completely defensible and utterly wrong? Don't worry, it happens to a lot of smart people. You think and think and...
The first beta (Preview I) of OlyMars Refresh v1.5 is now available to beta participants.
Beta participants, if you are interested in testing this beta , just browse to the new OlyMars Refresh Portal located at:
http://www.olymars.net
From this portal,...
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/14/contact.domain.name.ap/
“To help people manage all their contact information online, the Internet's key oversight agency is considering a ".tel" domain name. If approved, the domain could be available...
Can you believe it's been one year already? When Brian Keller and Co launched the Coding4Fun website on MSDN, I'm not sure they knew what kind of response they would get. It turned out that the response was overwhelming, with over 50,000 unique...
It's especially embarrassing when your frustration overflows and you let others know what you really think. Just check out this MSN Search for StupidIEMarginHack. I mean 1,500 answers? (Amusingly, it's 27,000 records found on Google.)...
The entire book "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers" is now available online.
Here's the link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/introto2005/
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Technorati's David Sifry reports the blogosphere is continuing its growth rate - doubling every six months. We've now hit 75,000 new blogs a day....
As a relatively new blogger, I am still learning what are good topics to blog. One of the metric I used to see how I do is the data http://blogs.msdn.com provides about how many people read my post (Aggregated and normal).
Krzysztof and I had a nice...
An interesting customer question came to my attention a few weeks ago. The customer had created a managed service, and was installing it with a custom name that was provided at install time by the user. I’ve seen several customer applications...
If there are multiple foo.dll loaded (from different paths), LoadLibrary(“foo.dll”) will return the first foo.dll was loaded.
This is documented in MSDN:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/loadlibrary.asp“If...
Well, I’m off to the next Ecma TC45 face to face meeting where we’ll continue to make progress in the Open XML format standardization effort. This time we’re meeting out in London. Adam Farquhar of the British Library is the Vice-Chair of TC45, and he’s...
While we’re talking about diffing … now I needed to be able to diff two local directories with a few requirements …
1) determine left/right only items
2) determine the optimal recursive...
After a far-too-long hiatus, we have finally gotten back on track with the Mobile Devcasters Show. Episode 5 is now available for download at the Mobile Devcasters web site –
"In this episode, Thom and Don play a little "catch-up", discussing...
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