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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
Non-Web clients for Web Search
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