My colleague Robert Hanz wrote an excellent piece for an internal email list and I liked it so much I asked him if I could post a copy of it. Apparently Herb Sutter liked it too! Thanks, Robert! I was reading Blink last night, and one of the things it...

As a continuation from my last blog entry, here are some more thoughts I have about code coverage measurements. · Never roll up code coverage data without the interpretation of that data. Without some text about what your numbers mean, people will draw...

Opening Artists.xaml, I’d like to make it so I can search for an artist, and then see all their associated albums and tracks. This is a simple 3-level hierarchy as evident in the data model and the object model created from it. Accordingly, I’d like to...

I recently took on the role of ScrumMaster for a newly-formed team that’s new to agile project management.  We’ve had several interesting discussions about various topics that commonly come up when a team is adopting Scrum so I thought I’d share...

In the world of app compat, sometimes you get lucky and have the app itself clearly not working, and you debug it. (Well, I guess if you’re really going to get lucky, you’ll have the app just work.) Things get murkier when an app has a bad interaction...

I’ve been playing around with creating a custom Astoria Data Service Provider , aka DSP, for a while now. So far I’d managed to get my metadata all setup, so browsing to $metadata works great. I’d got a few simple queries work. Basically everything was...

A new article has been released today which describes how to set up MSMQ activation for WCF Workflow Service Application hosted in Windows Activation Service (WAS). Overview In .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010, you can build pure Windows Communication...

So our friend Kay, over at the Bing Blog , recently made a great post about how you can improve your resume. An excerpt is below, but head on over to her post to read the full list of Overused Words that Make Your Resume Suck . " I’ve used a few choice...

So a while back I blogged a little sample code on how to get some info about what’s happening inside your instance using a simple process within a web page. Looking Inside Windows Azure! Well, I decided to refresh this code sample using one of my favorite...

Well it's been a couple of weeks, but between stuffing ourselves silly since the last time we updated and then catching up on work before heading out for the next round of holidays in the U.S., it's easy to get caught up in things! But never fear - here...

The WPF text team has seen some people get confused about what units WPF uses when measuring text. Samer, a developer on the WPF text team, and I have created this post to try and shed some light on this subject. The first part of this post is very straight...

I've very happy to announced that we've officially released IronPython 2.6! This is a great release which brings us up to date with the stable CPython 2.x branch, greatly improves startup time performance, continues to improve our support for deep .NET...

Hi there, Mihai Coman here. I’m a new Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. Over the last couple of weeks you’ve gotten a better idea of some of the new capabilities of SharePoint Designer. There’s a ton of new features and UI components to...

Ottawa was the sixth of the seven cities in the TechDays cross-Canada tour. We’ve settled into a pretty good groove and the setup process for the conference has become second nature; I’m sure that we can all do it in our sleep now. The Hampton Inn Conference...

I’m stealing a line from Alanis Morissette to offer my (and Chris’) appreciation for the turn out at our first-ever Northeast Roadshow to be held in the Ocean State .  If there were any doubt this is the ‘winter’ edition of our series, they melted...

We are happy to release several Cross Platform specific PowerShell scripts to help automate the discovery of UNIX/Linux Servers, installation/upgrade of the Cross Platform Agents, Signing of the Certificates, and Changing the Management Server managing...

Pessoal, Seguem links para dois webcasts de aproximadamente 1 hora cada, os quais gravei para o MSDN há pouco mais de um ano, mas que ainda são muito relevantes por abordar a arquitetura técnica da versão atual do Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Basta clicar...

Here is the scenario.  Supposedly a password in AD is expired and we try to log in into the SharePoint site as an AD user.  You will get to see these exceptions, “You are not authorized to view this page” / “Unauthorized: Access is denied due...

Still have some holiday shopping to do? Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is on sale for $99 until December 26. You'll just have to wrap it yourself. -- Holly...

Partnership. It’s a word used often in IT circles, and I hear it everyday here at Microsoft. The idea behind the word is simple - to rise above simply selling software to organizations and become a true business ally. It’s about working together to understand...

One of the things I like to do is coincide the playback of the famed Concerts for Bangladesh with the original concert start times (they started at noon and 7 PM local time, I believe). Perhaps you're and IT Pro or sysadmin looking to coordinate the time...

One of the things I showed at Directions US 2009 was how to send data to NAV via a XMLPort, and I promised to blog about that as well. In the meantime I found out, that Lars actually already wrote about this (and he also made a WebCast). Please have a...

In a recent blog post Chris Klug discusses how he created a Silverlight 3 multitouch application on Windows 7 that communicates with an iPhone application called OScemote . Pretty interesting stuff. To see how an iPhone may be used as a controller for...

One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is T-SQL IntelliSense. Yes, I know you’re thinking, “it’s about time.” Well, when we were implementing this functionality we had to made some difficult decisions about what we would support. So I thought...

It is very likely that in the past some Publisher users got confused regarding the distinction between page and sheet. In the print dialog when should one choose "Multiple pages per sheet" or "Multiple copies per sheet" ? I know this is confusing. This...