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2021-08-06

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Some more love for Windows Live

Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of more...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/21/2009

A Little love for Windows Live – How easily Kylie uploads and shares photos

I am planning to post a series of blog-posts on the ease of use and friendliness of using...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/20/2009

Windows Azure bringing Cloud computing to the mainstream

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform and it brings several ideas and concepts in...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/19/2009

Windows Live Essentials – free download

I was chatting with some of my friends and I learnt that they did not know of the free goodies from...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/14/2009

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Author: gpillai Date: 02/12/2009

Cool new nifty feature in Live Search

There is a cool and nifty feature in Live Search. For those who want to know quickly the stock price...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/12/2009

Live Services – Training material videos now available

Finally we are publicly releasing the internal Live Services Training power point decks and videos...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/11/2009

Once consent has been granted to a Web Site, how does one manage the consent or revoke it. After all...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/05/2009

Walkthrough of using the Web Platform Installer

With the release of Web Platform Installer it is very easy to install various software components...

Author: gpillai Date: 01/20/2009

Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 Released

This is a significant announcement and a much needed product to smoothen integrated deployment of...

Author: gpillai Date: 01/20/2009

Cool Isn’t it? – I Shipped a Management Pack Mug

Finally here it comes after all the work. A cool mug from the Systems Center Operations' Manager...

Author: gpillai Date: 01/18/2009

SCOM Management Pack for Team Foundation Server 2008 has been posted.

As promised in an earlier blog post of mine a System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) based...

Author: gpillai Date: 11/28/2008

Live Services Jumpstart 2009 – Los Angeles, Dec 1st and 2nd

There is an upcoming Live Services Jumpstart training coming up in LA. For full details about venue...

Author: gpillai Date: 11/18/2008

A question that often comes up for Web sites that want to integrate with Windows Live-ID is, is it...

Author: gpillai Date: 11/11/2008

Patterns and Practices (p&p) – Slew of releases

This p&p team has released a slew of new releases listed below. It is a banner week for them and...

Author: gpillai Date: 10/30/2008

Azure Services Platform

Microsoft announced at PDC a Platform which enables users to upload and access applications, use...

Author: gpillai Date: 10/28/2008

Live Mesh Technology

There is some cool new technology called Live Mesh. The technology enables a user to have a very...

Author: gpillai Date: 10/24/2008

Very cool feature from Microsoft Outlook Connector

Folks, I downloaded the Windows Live bundle from https://home.live.com and liked the outlook...

Author: gpillai Date: 10/09/2008

Management Pack for Team Foundation Server (TFS)

There is a Management Pack (MP) for TFS currently in beta. This is referred to in Brian Harry's blog...

Author: gpillai Date: 07/10/2008

SilverLight 2 Beta 2 announced to the world

At TechEd The SilverLight 2 Beta 2 was announced. This brings together a number of feature...

Author: gpillai Date: 06/04/2008

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR CTP14

At TechEd the CTP14 GDR was announced to the world for the VSTS 2008 Database Edition of the...

Author: gpillai Date: 06/04/2008

Offline viewing of TFS Process Guidance Documents

This is an often asked question and though the answer is very easy, I thought I will post it so that...

Author: gpillai Date: 04/22/2008

Hyper-V - Windows Virtualization

Technorati Tags: Hyper-V Virtualization Virtual Server Core 64 bit 64bit snapshot RSAT Intel-VT...

Author: gpillai Date: 03/26/2008

How to categorize VSTS tests in the Reports?

Technorati Tags: VSTS Tests 2008 Reports Filter Is there a way to prioritize test cases in order to...

Author: gpillai Date: 02/08/2008

Web Test - Some Differences in VS2008 and VS2005

A lot of functionality has been added in Web Tests in VS - 2008 Edition. Below is highlighted the...

Author: gpillai Date: 01/30/2008

Viewing all Work Item Fields of a Team Foundation Server (TFS)

A question came up - Is it possible to view all fields of the various types of Work Items ( which...

Author: gpillai Date: 12/26/2007

Offline Viewing of TFS Process Guidance documentation

A question came up during a discussion and it was: Do I need to be connected to TFS to view and read...

Author: gpillai Date: 12/22/2007

VSTS 2008 TFS Power Tools Released

A new set of Power Tools for TFS 2008 has been released. This is a good one that I have been waiting...

Author: gpillai Date: 12/21/2007

MSBuild team seeking feedback on priority of features

The MSBuild Team is seeking feedback on prioritizing the list of features to be included in MSBuild....

Author: gpillai Date: 12/10/2007

Creating Fake or Dummy builds in TFS 2008

In TFS 2005, we were able to easily create a fake or dummy Team build definition using the Team...

Author: gpillai Date: 12/09/2007