Software & Services - Bret Grinslade
Making the world a better place, one application at a time.
Troubleshooting Application Insights
The preview for Application Insights is going well. We are signing up new customers and learning a...
Date: 03/02/2014
Application Insights Preview
Yesterday, Brian Harry and the Visual Studio team announced the availability of Visual Studio Online...
Date: 11/14/2013
Azure Web Sites update
Wow... I really do love Azure Web Sites. The integration with the new version of visual studio and...
Date: 11/06/2013
Why Use Yammer?
Yammer is actually pretty cool. I have started to use it today. It is kind of like Facebook for an...
Date: 11/28/2012
Pilot Thinking (part 1)
This Marketing Pilot announcement got me thinking about something pretty simple yet very important...
Date: 11/19/2012
So what is a funnel (part 2)
Okay, so you may not be super impressed. However, appreciating the funnel and how the flow of...
Date: 11/19/2012
Funnel's are for other people (part 3)
Really funnel's really are for all devleopers (or for all developers that have humans or other...
Date: 11/19/2012
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft is continuing to build up the capability in Dynamics CRM. While you hear a lot about Sale...
Date: 11/16/2012
Azure Web Sites
Trying out a cool new capability in Azure. It is in preview, and is a great direction IMO....
Date: 10/12/2012
Vista and Windows XP Upgrade to Windows 7
I am definitely not an expert on Windows 7. I have been using the beta and it is working well for...
Date: 03/12/2009
Silverlight - A big step for development
Wow! What a difference a good UI framework and programming model can make in development. We have...
Date: 11/03/2008
adCenter Analytics Update
Just wanted to give folks a quick update on adCenter Analytics. We have been doing a lot of work on...
Date: 07/27/2008
Paid Search Conversion Tracking
The next phase test here is for paid search conversion tracking.Let's see what happens when you use...
Date: 07/18/2008
Conversion tracking
This is an outbound link: https://bretrazor.cloudapp.net/ and another...
Date: 07/10/2008
Email tools?
I am checking out an email tool that looks pretty interesting -- xobni. I have been using Facebook...
Date: 05/01/2008
Try adCenter Analytics Today!
Microsoft’s web analytics product, Gatineau, has been updated and branded as adCenter...
Date: 03/06/2008
Silverlight and Web Analytics at MIX08
MIX 2008 in Las Vegas, the Next web now, is sold out. This promises to be a great event with lots of...
Date: 03/03/2008
Working for Atlas?
There has been a lot written recently about Yahoo and Microsoft. Right now, I won’t go in to...
Date: 02/06/2008
.NET Framework 3.5 install layout
In a forum post, a user reported that he cannot use the web boot strapper to install since the...
Date: 11/21/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 are released!
The release formerly known as Orcas has shipped. This is a great release and builds on the...
Date: 11/20/2007
How to report an installation or setup problem with VS2008 beta or .NET Framework 3.5 beta
My team owns the installation experience for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. One...
Date: 08/20/2007
Installing VS 2008 Beta2 VSSetupWatsonDW20.EXE cannot copy…
I have seen quite a few reports of the VS 2008 installation not being able to copy a specific file....
Date: 08/14/2007
Pre-Release software blocking Visual Studio Beta2 installation
The setup for VS Orcas and the .NET Framework 3.5 has a list of pre-release installations that must...
Date: 08/14/2007
Getting Help with Visual Studio
Most developers have heard that Visual Studio and the .NET Framework released Beta2 of Orcas at the...
Date: 08/09/2007
Visual Studio Beta 2 -- Get VSTS Easier and Faster at Home
The new (and final) Beta of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework has been released. These are 2008...
Date: 07/27/2007
WinFX and the .NET Framework 3.0
It is amazing how big an impact names and terminology have on how we think. If you haven't heard,...
Date: 06/14/2006
Target Software Platforms
Recently I have been thinking a lot about how software and content developers target different...
Date: 03/06/2006
WinFX top level dev center
It is exciting to finally see WinFX as top level part of the dev centers....
Date: 01/30/2006
Virtual Earth and Google Maps
Here is a fun tool that you can use to see VE and G Maps side by side. You can really feel how web...
Date: 08/22/2005
CTP Madness and Ballmer
I don't know about you but all the beta / CTP downloads can just drive you nuts. I work on VS and...
Date: 07/11/2005
MSN Search now live
I have been using the MSN Search service in its beta form for several months. To be 100% honest...
Date: 02/01/2005
Web services
Web services are still really big at Microsoft. I can't wait for the public releases of Indigo to...
Date: 04/08/2004
MSDN is getting really good
I really like MSDN these days. Sure there are a lot of things that could be better or different. Dev...
Date: 03/10/2004