Tired of XL T-shirts? Come get a women’ s shirt with real Swarovski crystals!   {iGive = dc}; What is iGive? The iGive program is a way for Microsoft to “give back” to the communities that we live in and serve.  It is part of the overall corporate...

Get an advance peak at what Toby Richards will be talking about when he joins a panel discussion at South by Southwest. http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/ He tackles the subject, “Customer Support in a 140 Character World,” by looking at what it...

Hi Friends, After a long break of about 8 months, I am back again!! Many things changed recently, and I was quite busy adopting to the changes – the most challenging was, of course, adopting myself to new parenthood. However, I am back again, with some...

Here at Microsoft, we are always working on ways to bring information to our Partners around the world to help them know about things coming, tools and items available, trends and insights, and much more.  One of the tools we have available is the...

There is a post on the Office 2010 Engineering blog about our ship date. The magic day is May 12th . Wahoo! We look forward to your feedback. :-)...

Мы всегда рады возможности сотрудничества с членами W3C, включая разработчиков других браузеров, а также с сообществом веб-разработчиков, чтобы помочь задать направление для развивающихся веб-стандартов и, в частности, HTML5 . Такое сотрудничество включает...

In my last post I gave an overview of what automated testing looks like in VS / TFS 2010 with the new testing features.  In 2010 we’ve added Test Plans which contain Test Suites which you can think of as a folder hierarchy to separate and organize...

Summary MFDub is a simple linear video editor built on Media Foundation, modeled after the free video editor VirtualDub. MFDub can open any file format that can be resolved by the MF source resolver , display frames of video from the file, apply a series...

The Windows Team has launched a new web site named “Develop for Windows”, to help 3 million developers stay connected with Microsoft and the community. Click here to find out what resources are available that may help you, your team or your organization....

In this blog I will break down how to use OAB throttling. There are a few things that I need to explain about this as most of the administrators that use this never get it to work properly. Using OAB throttling is not a set it and forget it type of deal,...

T4MVC has always struggled with finding the right way of running automatically when you build.  Being a T4 template in your project, by default it just runs when you save it.  This is not great, because you really want it to rerun whenever you...

So, you want to run a big SQL Server database and maintain high performance? Start by sizing up—the database files, that is! Pre-sizing the database files appropriately will help TEMENOS T24 perform at its best when it runs on SQL Server. When you create...

Let’s start from creating a custom theme for MOSS 2007 and WSS3.0. Here are the steps :- 1) Copy the “WHEAT” folder from “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES” and paste it in the same folder. Change...

When I was at the PDC last fall, I was interviewed for “ Ed & Ashley’s 5 Minute Show ”.  Ed and Ashley are college students who interview women in technology on their video blog.  You can read about how they got started here .  On this...

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You are invited to join in a day-long FireStarter event for Windows Azure. The event is available online and in person in Redmond, WA April 6 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific Time (11:20 AM – 9 PM Eastern). We have some rock stars from the Azure Product Team...

So I’ve had a little bit of a dry spell with respect to blog entries of late.  I was planning on (eventually) writing a detailed walkthrough of using test impact analysis with Microsoft Test Manager to view impact to manual tests.  However,...

I run my development server by boot to VHD (Windows Server 2008 R2 x64).  In that instance, I also have an attached VHD (I attach via script at boot up time using Task Scheduler).  That VHD I have my SQL instances installed. So, the other day,...

So, you want to run a big SQL Server database and maintain high performance? Start by sizing up—the database files, that is! Pre-sizing the database files appropriately will help Workforce Central perform at its best when it is running on SQL Server....

My friends down in Australia know how to put on an event around Azure . slide from the event can be downloaded via @chlong tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2010/03/12/windows-azure-in-oz.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service...

Following in the footsteps of Lethic, Waledac and Mariposa, yet another botnet has been taken offline.  Not completely, though, it was only a partial disconnect.  The Zeus botnet, also known as Zbot , is a trojan password stealer that captures...

Microsoft executive Charlie Kindel revealed recently that the Windows Phone 7 developer experience builds upon the following GIANTS (among others): . NET Silverlight XNA platform Microsoft’s developer tools Web 2.0 standards Click here to read his post...

This month’s Topic is Earned Value Management – listen on March 16th or on demand at this Federal News Radio Listen Tuesday, March 16th at 10 AM Transparency and Accountability Drive Government's Growing Earned Value Management Requirements. Microsoft...

Just in time for SXSW and Mix10, courtesy of Amybeth Hale at Mashable is her list of 12 iPhone Apps for Surviving Conference Season … "As conference season is upon us (including SXSW , of course), I began thinking about all the things one might need to...

We recently found an issue in the Team Explorer 2010 client while performing backwards compatibility testing, and unfortunately, this wasn’t a bug that we were able to fix for RTM.  This issue will be documented in the RTM ReadMe, but I wanted to...