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TFS Operations Guidance

The Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server is now available on MSDN. Really great stuff...

Author: magicred Date: 10/02/2007

How-To: Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) and Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2

Spent a few minutes banging my head against the wall before I found this link How-To: Smart Client...

Author: magicred Date: 09/26/2007

Repository Factory...the artist formerly known as Data Access Guidance Package

The Data Access Guidance Package originally included in the Web Service Software Factory has a new...

Author: magicred Date: 09/25/2007

New Search with SilverLight

Been out of the loop for a while...workin' for a livin'. In the never ending search (pun intended)...

Author: magicred Date: 09/13/2007

Wikipedia to the rescue

Just in case you need an obscure reference to a previous Microsoft product codename, or would like...

Author: magicred Date: 08/22/2007

Down to 0 bars!

I've been using Windows Mobile Live Search on my WM5 cellphone (no WM6 yet for me :() paired with a...

Author: magicred Date: 07/12/2007

Microsoft Security Grunt makes Worst Jobs in Science 2007

I was reading this at home and it reminded me of a very informative and entertaining presentation I...

Author: magicred Date: 06/27/2007

Expression Blend is also a developers tool

Online demo (XBAP), lab manual, and complete source project for building an Outlook 2007 UI Clone...

Author: magicred Date: 06/19/2007

Targeted advertising: "Cylons. Why debugging matters."

Not sure how effective it is, but the targeted advertising gets a smile from me. Link to Primordial...

Author: magicred Date: 06/19/2007

Windows Server Virtualization Calculators

For those of you considering Virtualization in your solutions, Windows Server Virtualization...

Author: magicred Date: 06/15/2007

CLR Add-In model in .NET 3.5

While doing some spelunking to support application extensibility I ran across a new feature that is...

Author: magicred Date: 06/15/2007

Do we need another browser?

After a couple days off working on lingering household projects, I see that Apple has released a...

Author: magicred Date: 06/12/2007

Microsoft Surface...more for my wishlist

They announced Microsoft Surface. MS Research has shown videos and demos of early versions of this...

Author: magicred Date: 06/12/2007

ZAP! WHAM! KAPOW!

Finally getting through the MIX sessions Webcasts. I particularly liked Nathan Dunlap and Robby...

Author: magicred Date: 05/30/2007

Indexing for LINQ.

Ran across this on Rocky's blog: Introducing i4o - indexes for objects. If you haven't already...

Author: magicred Date: 05/03/2007

Package This

Just saw became aware of the Package This project on CodePlex: Package This is a GUI tool written in...

Author: magicred Date: 04/26/2007

MS Fuel cell charger?

Fuel cell for electronics. (From .net DEvHammer)...not to be the cynic, but how much are these going...

Author: magicred Date: 04/17/2007

Silverlight

I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't know this is what WPF/e has officially become and it took me more...

Author: magicred Date: 04/17/2007

Expanding VHDs

I ran out of room in my VHD image (for VirtualPC 2007) I've been using while building a new image...

Author: magicred Date: 04/02/2007

WCF, WF performance papers

Just noticed a new performance whitepaper for WCF was put up on MSDN. If you're using WF, the...

Author: magicred Date: 04/02/2007

I've been using Live Search for Mobile on my SmartPhone for a couple weeks now and I have to say it...

Author: magicred Date: 03/28/2007

When the shakin' never stops

My Cingular 3125 Smartphone had a seizure this morning! I had 3 concurrent appointments (mostly Live...

Author: magicred Date: 02/14/2007

Updated MS Hardware drivers for Vista

If you haven't already updated your Microsoft Hardware device drivers to the Vista versions, go do...

Author: magicred Date: 02/14/2007

Whole lotta nothin' on WM6

Very excited about the launch of Windows Mobile 6. Last week I saw some of the new features, which...

Author: magicred Date: 02/13/2007

Raising the technical bar at home

I'm at an internal MS training conference with an international attendance base. The conference is...

Author: magicred Date: 02/08/2007

Laptop Temptations

I saw this via Scott Watermasysk.....very tempting indeed. Link to Rob Conery Ramblings - My New...

Author: magicred Date: 02/08/2007

Airplane seating info for RoadWarriors

SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities. Check this site when booking flights...

Author: magicred Date: 02/01/2007

Computer scientist missing off California coast - CNN.com

Link to Computer scientist missing off California coast - CNN.com Very alarming....hoping it is all...

Author: magicred Date: 02/01/2007

ASP.Net Ajax - Atlas - is out

Check it out at https://ajax.asp.net. Personally, there are to many A's in the naming here...

Author: magicred Date: 01/23/2007

Sodoku-Haters

Maybe even worse than Sahil, I can't stand Sodoku. It's not like I really spend much time working on...

Author: magicred Date: 01/08/2007

The stories I've been told

I enjoy reading Seth Godin's blog, so I thought I would summarize a particularly annoying set of...

Author: magicred Date: 01/03/2007

Life with Office 2007

I've been spending a significant amount of time in my "day job" writing documents using Word 2007....

Author: magicred Date: 12/05/2006

CSS Control Adapters Released

ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters v1.0 have been released. I've you haven't used these yet...

Author: magicred Date: 12/01/2006

Explaining MS samples

In the category of, "things you wondered but never knew who to ask"...The Old New Thing blog...

Author: magicred Date: 11/29/2006

Bill Gates interviewed by PBS's Charlie Rose

Bill Gates was interviewed by Charlie Rose (PBS talk-show host) at Stanford. Watch the interview on...

Author: magicred Date: 11/29/2006

Special Interest vs Public Interest and ODF

While I read /. on a semi-regular basis, my "affiliation" has a natural bias towards my employer ;)...

Author: magicred Date: 11/29/2006

When SVCHOST does you wrong...

Over the weekend, maybe late last week sometime, my old(er) HP laptop started giving me a:...

Author: magicred Date: 11/21/2006

It's time

Jim Allchin says It's Time - for Vista that is (RTM baby!!!). If you see someone from the Windows...

Author: magicred Date: 11/08/2006

Password TextBox tidbits

Been away for a while....thought I'd post some stuff I learned while I was away from blogging. I had...

Author: magicred Date: 11/07/2006

.NET 3.0 is ready

.NET 3.0 released.

Author: magicred Date: 11/07/2006

Vista RC1

Well I'm up and running on Vista RC1 (build 5600)...and I have to say it is a marked improvement...

Author: magicred Date: 09/20/2006

Looking forward to Vista RC1

I've been looking forward to updating my installation to Vista RC1 (build 5600). I've been running...

Author: magicred Date: 09/11/2006

CSS Control Adapters Update

ASP.NET Control Adapters Beta2 has been released. Read this article on ScottGu's blog for a run...

Author: magicred Date: 09/11/2006

Hardware Compensation

I spent some time with a customer recently to help them design a failover for their failover. Let me...

Author: magicred Date: 09/05/2006

Why I'm not worried...or at least less worried

One of my feeds had a posting "Linux's iPod Generation Gap", on Slashdot. The gist being that Linux...

Author: magicred Date: 08/17/2006

Windows Live Writer...

testing this out... Cool!.... but, where's the Ink support?!

Author: magicred Date: 08/16/2006

Glass for Windows Forms

Catching up on some reading and I ran across this post about implementing Vista Glass/Aero in your...

Author: magicred Date: 08/09/2006

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