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Windows Server 2008 App Compat Labs Released
The first four labs in a series of Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility labs have been...
Date: 04/29/2008
TxF Managed Wrapper on Code Gallery
Hello, everybody, I have released the first version of a rudimentary managed wrapper around...
Date: 04/23/2008
Ray Ozzie and Live Mesh on Channel 9
Ray Ozzie has now made his Channel 9 debut, folks. In this video, being interviewed by Jon Udell,...
Date: 04/23/2008
Musicians Get-Together @ MIX Open Space
Jason Mauer and I are doing an Open Space session tonight @ 6:30pm in the Open Space Theatre at MIX...
Date: 03/05/2008
At MIX08 for the week
Hey all, I will be at the wonderful Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada this week working at the...
Date: 03/04/2008
New App Compat Video - Debugging
A new video has been posted to the Developer Meet Server Show on Channel 9. In this video, we...
Date: 01/29/2008
WS08 Feature of the Week #14 - Sub-queues in MSMQ 4.0
What are sub-queues? Subqueues are implicitly created local queues that are logical partitions of a...
Date: 01/29/2008
New App Compat Video - MSI Installer Issues
I have posted a new video to the Developer Meet Server Show on Channel 9. This video discusses...
Date: 01/18/2008
WS08 Feature of the Week #13 - Windows Process Activation Service (WAS)
What is Windows Process Activation Service? Windows Process Activation Service, also referred to as...
Date: 01/18/2008
An actually funny video about Windows Server
Well, at least I found it funny. A coworker brought this to my attention today. I thought it was...
Date: 01/11/2008
WS08 Feature Of The Week #12 - IIS7 Administration API
Hello everyone, and welcome back after our winter break hiatus. We have a lot of cool features to...
Date: 01/11/2008
Video - App Compat and Windows Server 2008
As part of the "Developer Meet Server" show on Channel 9, I have started a new series of...
Date: 01/11/2008
The launch of marshal-as.net
In my previous post, I talked about why I personally love C++/CLI as a solution for managed and...
Date: 11/22/2007
Managed and Native Interop - C# or C++/CLI?
This is a topic that I've been thinking a lot about lately. And I would really like to get all of...
Date: 11/22/2007
What's Mandatory Integrity Control?
Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is a cool new security feature built in to Windows Vista and...
Date: 11/12/2007
Tech Ed Developer (Europe)
Howdy all, I will be at Tech Ed Developer this week doing several things. First of all, I will be...
Date: 11/05/2007
New Works With Windows Server 2008 Program
There is a new kid on the block around our Logo program with Windows Server. What is that? With the...
Date: 07/31/2007
Listing Running Transactions In A Resource Manager
The more I work with TxF, the more I realize that our (Microsoft's) coverage of certain KTM topics...
Date: 07/19/2007
Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit
James Conard announces over on his blog that our team has just released the Windows Server 2008...
Date: 07/19/2007
Windows Server "Longhorn" - Beta 3 Has Arrived!
Well, it's official. Beta 3 of Windows Server "Longhorn" has launched. With it, I finally get to...
Date: 04/25/2007
Top Ways To Light Up Your Apps On Windows Server "Longhorn"
Whether you are a developer building web applications, to a developer writing core server based...
Date: 04/25/2007
Developer, Meet Server - Transactional NTFS and WCF
I recently posted the second screencast in my new "Developer, Meet Server" screencast series. This...
Date: 04/04/2007
Announcing: New "Developer, Meet Server" Screencast Series
Welcome everybody to the inaugural, first ever, grand opening, “opening the doors to the public”...
Date: 03/09/2007
MSR TechFest - See How Microsoft Research Shaping Is The Future
[Crosspost from Managed World] Rory is doing some videos at Channel 9 on the Microsoft Research...
Date: 03/06/2007
LHS Feature Of The Week #11 - Transactional NTFS + USB Flash Drive
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. This week, we will revisit...
Date: 12/01/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #10 - Application Recovery and Restart
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. This week’s newsletter...
Date: 12/01/2006
Vista-Only Features for Managed Developers
[Crosspost from Managed World] I recently came across a bunch of stuff done by Daniel Moth, a...
Date: 11/13/2006
EasyBCD - A GUI for BCDedit
[Crosspost from ManagedWorld] Rob Atkinson recently blogged some screenshots from a new tool from...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #9 - Restart Manager
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. In this week’s edition of...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #8 - Windows Error Reporting
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. This week, we take quick...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #7 - Boot Configuration Data
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. This week, we will be...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #6 - Windows Remote Management
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. This week, we will take a...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #5 - Task Scheduler 2.0
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. In this fifth installment,...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #4 - Kernel Transaction Manager
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. As mentioned last week,...
Date: 11/13/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #3 - Transactional Registry
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. In this week’s newsletter,...
Date: 09/29/2006
Rory Joining Channel 9
Yay, I can finally talk about this. For those of you that haven't heard yet, the incomparable Rory...
Date: 09/25/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #2 - Remote Differential Compression
[Update: Added link to RDC Whitepaper and blurb about RDC dogfooding in DFS Replication (thanks...
Date: 09/22/2006
LHS Feature Of The Week #1 - Transactional NTFS
Hello everyone, and welcome to the “Feature Of The Week” newsletter. In the Feature Of The Week...
Date: 09/22/2006
Longhorn Server Feature Of The Week
I am starting a new category/feature on this blog. It is something that I've started to do...
Date: 09/22/2006
Virtual Machine Monitors, Exokernels, and Hypervisors, Oh My!
For those of you that semi-regularly follow this blog, you may or may not have noticed that I've...
Date: 09/19/2006
Feedback Wanted - Favorite Development Features in Vista/Longhorn Server
Howdy all y'all. I'm hoping to get some feedback from all of you. Basically, I'm hoping to get a...
Date: 09/13/2006
Booting Vista into Debug Mode
For anyone that has had to boot Windows into debug mode to do some digging around (like remote...
Date: 09/12/2006
Writing Your Own OS With Visual Studio 2005
Before I joined the ranks at Microsoft, a hobby I started to take up was Operating System...
Date: 09/11/2006
Microsoft designs a school system
It's moments like these that make me proud to be a Microsoft employee. Here's an excerpt: Students...
Date: 09/08/2006
Transaction Resources List
I'll be updating this post over time to reflect new resources that are made available regarding the...
Date: 09/08/2006
Other Transaction Resources
While I'm on the topic of Transaction resources out there, I might as well give a more detailed...
Date: 09/06/2006
Understanding Transactions in .NET
I came across this article today by Sahil Malik. If you are wanting to get up to speed with...
Date: 09/06/2006
Using TxF in Vista RC1
Jim Johnson has a new post about how to use TxF with the new model in Vista RC1. You will obviously...
Date: 09/05/2006