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Software architecture, design, best practices, technical news

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Hello I have decided to leave and pursue my career outside of Microsoft Consulting Services. It was...

Date: 11/10/2010

We are getting more and more in the Cloud

Microsoft Office 365 is here. It includes: Office Pro Plus, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. See more...

Date: 10/26/2010

Interesting self-assessment for your company

Not so many people know that Microsoft has an Application Platform Capability Assessment site, where...

Date: 10/12/2010

Convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk

Yes, I did the “big” mistake and I try to add a 5-th partition to my HDD (I was thinking...

Date: 09/25/2010

Developing Applications for the Cloud

Microsoft patterns & practices announcing the release of a new guide: Developing Applications...

Date: 09/22/2010

Windows Phone 7 book

An interesting book about Windows Phone 7 (author: Charles Petzold) will be available next months....

Date: 09/10/2010

TFS Power Tools September 2010

Team Foundation Server Power Tools September 2010 are here ! You can download it from :...

Date: 09/09/2010

Free resources for learning Visual Studio 2010

Here are couple free resources for learning Visual Studio 2010: Product overview:...

Date: 05/27/2010

The 2010 Wave is Here

Visual Studio 2010 , .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 were released this week ! See more details...

Date: 04/16/2010

Des nouvelles de moi

Pour les derniers mois j’étais très occupée, avec des affaires...

Date: 02/03/2010

.NET development on iPhone

"Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business...

Date: 09/17/2009

Project Natal de Xbox 360

Even if I am not an enthusiastic gamer I can't stop to admire the progresses done in this project....

Date: 06/02/2009

Windows 7 RC is available

Windows 7 RC is now available to the TechNet/MSDN subscribers, and on May 5th will be available at...

Date: 04/30/2009

LDAP query to get a user memberships in SQL

Today I was struggling to obtain in SQL Server 2005 the list of groups (from Active Directory) to...

Date: 04/16/2009

Visual controls inheritance in WPF

Many companies are building their own base classes wrapping the native UI classes (in order to be...

Date: 03/19/2009

Azure Services Platform videos

Yesterday Microsoft published a first series (9 from 40) of "How Do I" videos with code snippets for...

Date: 02/13/2009

New patterns & practices node in the MSDN Library

It was released an improved structure for the patterns & practices node in the MSDN Library. You...

Date: 02/11/2009

Intercept and manipulate SOAP messages in WCF

"WCF does not support the use of SOAP extensions, but it does have other extensibility points that...

Date: 02/10/2009

Microsoft Cloud Computing Tools

Here is a very interesting site about the "Microsoft Cloud Computing Tools" : Windows Azure and Live...

Date: 02/02/2009

A third step in my simple WCF Web service using Entity Framework

This is the next step in my previous sample (see the previous post from this month). Now I want to...

Date: 01/18/2009

A second step in my simple WCF Web service using Entity Framework

Couple days ago I started a simple application (WCF Web service using Entity Framework to access a...

Date: 01/08/2009

WPF Toolkit and more

For those who are looking for more WPF functionalities, there is a "project" on CodePlex called:...

Date: 01/06/2009

ASP.NET AJAX In Action

For those interested in some AJAX samples, here are the code samples for the book "ASP.NET AJAX In...

Date: 01/06/2009

A first step in a simple WCF Web service using Entity Framework

Hello and Happy New Year 2009 ! Here is a sample code I wrote to show you how to create a WCF Web...

Date: 01/05/2009

La meilleure stratégie pour graduer une application SharePoint

J'ai eu un client qui m'a posé la question suivante: Quelle est la meilleure stratégie pour graduer...

Date: 12/10/2008

Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications

A very interesting video about the present and the future of the Silverlight : Microsoft Silverlight...

Date: 11/16/2008

MSDN Architecture Center

A very interesting site for all software architects: MSDN Architecture Center. "This site provides...

Date: 11/08/2008

Team Foundation Server 2010

At PDC 2008 was presented the future Team Foundation Server 2010. “Dive deep into the next version...

Date: 10/31/2008

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools...

Date: 10/27/2008

patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide - v2.0

A very recommended reading : patterns & practices Application Architecure Guide 2.0 Beta 1 "This...

Date: 10/27/2008

The 70-503 exam (WCF)

Today I passed my first .NET 3.5 exam: the 70-503 (Windows Communication Foundation Application...

Date: 10/06/2008

Lancement Hyper-V et SQL Server 2008 en LIVE sur Internet depuis Paris

"Pour la première fois de son histoire, Microsoft France s’apprête à retransmettre en direct une...

Date: 09/30/2008

Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that bridge the gaps between PC, Web and mobile devices

"It’s no secret that the nature of software development is radically changing. At PDC2008 Ray Ozzie...

Date: 09/25/2008

Service Oriented Architecture - best practices

On the SOA Institute.org site are many interesting articles about SOA architecture best practices...

Date: 09/22/2008

La méthode sécurité SDL

Voila un site MSDN très intéressant sur comment traiter les menaces de sécurité: Méthode SDL contre...

Date: 09/18/2008

Two Silverlight sites to see

Here is a first nice site for those who are working with Silverlight : Project Rosetta. "Project...

Date: 09/18/2008

AutoCollage 2008

Another "out of subject" post: Microsoft Research release the AutoCollage 2008. You can download a...

Date: 09/08/2008

The 70-542 exam

Today I finally passed the 70-542 exam - MOSS 2007 – Application Development It was easier then I...

Date: 09/08/2008

Clone Detective for Visual Studio 2008

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio 2008 integrated tool that allows you to analyze C# projects for...

Date: 09/03/2008

Enable the Web Service request compression

I had to enable the request compression for an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service (no Web Service Enhancements...

Date: 09/02/2008

Enable the IIS 6 response compression

One of my projects required to enable the IIS 6 response compression. Here how I did it: set...

Date: 09/02/2008

SharePoint Learning Resources

I am currently preparing for the MOSS App Dev exam and I found an interesting site SharePoint...

Date: 08/26/2008

Introduction to cloud platforms

A short introduction to cloud platforms - in this white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by...

Date: 08/22/2008

Photosynth

I know that this is a little bit “out of subject”, but I can’t stop to write about another cool...

Date: 08/21/2008

SharePoint training

A good training to download for Office SharePoint 2007 beginners. "Explore Office SharePoint Server...

Date: 08/15/2008

Migrating your Visual Basic 6 investments to .NET

Migrating from VB6 to .NET 2005 - “exploring the pros and cons of each option using real world...

Date: 08/15/2008

Patterns and practices group site MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance documents A...

Date: 08/12/2008

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 released

The Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 were released to...

Date: 08/12/2008

Improving WCF Security guide - from the P&P team

On August 1st the Patterns and Practices team released their guide: Improving Web Services Security:...

Date: 08/12/2008

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