The Microsoft Hohm team continues rolling out our online energy management software at utilities in North America. On Friday, Xcel Energy empowered its 3.4 million customers with the ability to take better control of their home energy consumption with...

Les feedbacks à propos de Marketplace ont été nombreux, et souvent justifiés, et les oreilles Microsoftiennes ne sont pas complètement bouchées! Le 11 novembre, des fonctionnalités attendues par les utilisateurs et les développeurs, ont vu le jour: D’abord...

La grosse actualité technique de l’année pour Microsoft et son écosystème client et partenaires est la conférence PDC09   qui démarrera Mardi 17 Novembre à Los Angeles (PDC = Professional Developer’s Conference"). L’an dernier, le keynote de...

Après le lancement de Windows 7 et la grosse actualité de l’année pour Microsoft et son écosystème passera par la conférence PDC09 (PDC = Professional Developer’s Conference") qui démarrera Mardi 17 Novembre à Los Angeles. La PDC contrairement à une idée...

In Visual Studio Team Lab Management Beta2 , the above error message is observed on a testing capability enabled lab environment/lab system when the service account for test controller/agent are not properly configured. In this case, following error will...

10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (MUST See) and many more good web casts. http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1443#...

A couple of times on windows xp machines, I have observed that if you attempt to restart the test agent service, then it does not start and the log file contain this exception. ASEEMB-SPEARHEA\QTAgentService.exe, AgentService: Could not register TCP channel:...

Was recently playing around with the ReportViewer control and wanted to share what I learned about using it in a WinForm app to show data with an object data source. I recording this screencast showing a step-by-step and end-to-end scenario of building...

While developing an application that spans multiple tiers , it is important that you be able to flow error information through the tiers without losing any context or details in the tiers. With ADO.NET Data Services , we have an error contract which guarantees...

Here is a brief demonstration of Maya fluids, particle dynamics and Nurbs combined together to create an early morning Temple scene effect. The light source is being animated with soft body particle dynamics, while the smoke emitting from sticks is typical...

November 14 and 15 is a big weekend on Xbox LIVE. On Saturday, Game with Rockstar as they play The Ballad of Gay Tony from 2-5 PM ET in a special event , then finish off that day by playing Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers with Wil Wheaton...

When trying to create a unit test in a test project, the “Create Unit Tests” screen shows no types, thus the wizard cannot continue.  The [OK] button is disabled, and the only thing the user can do is cancel the unit test wizard.  This happens...

If you are developing using Exchange Web Services Managed API then now you can download @ Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.0 The Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.0 provides a managed interface for developing client...

If you are using InfoStores collection of CDO 1.2.1 for Outlook 2007 to access Public Folder store and not able to get reference to Public Folder store then here is the explanation of the design change in CDO 1.2.1 from SGriffin’s post@ Outlook 2007,...

Here’s a recap of what we talked about this week in the Microsoft Surface blog. Microsoft Surface at PDC 2009 Vodafone deploys Microsoft Surface in over 60 stores in 7 countries Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers Microsoft Surface...

This has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight or WPF, but thought people might find it useful anyway. If you've ever tried to check in a large number of files into SharePoint, you'll notice that there isn't a way to check them in bulk -- you have...

It is always great to see when a solution bubbles up from “ Future Projects” list to the “ Current Ranger Solutions” list :) Have a peek at our Rangers site here , to visit the TFS Integration Platform site on Codeplex as well, and most importantly to...

Part of my part-time studies … don’t ask … included project management and two areas, which we take for granted when using the Microsoft Project tool are cost calculations and evaluations, as well as the application of PERT techniques. I personally found...

Long running/expensive database calls might seem like a natural candidate for asynchronous call. Suppose you have the following system: A web application running on IIS 7 /.NET Framework v3.5 SP1 using the default request gating ( maxConcurrentRequestsPerCPU...

Microsoft Silverlight , now at version 3.0, is a great way to create rich web applications that run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It provides an engaging, rich, safe, secure, and scalable cross-platform experience. Best of all you can run it off any web...

Microsoft Firenze Case Competition has been created as a facebook group! Add yourself to see previous competition pics, communicate with other Universities and Microsoft, share your thoughts on our wall, get info, . . ....

The Guidelines for Picture and Video Import in Windows 7 white paper provides information about the picture and video import feature in Windows 7. The white paper includes guidelines for OEMs designing digital cameras and camera-equipped portable devices...

The first of a series of episodes on the BCS Team Channel is live! Watch our very own Sanjay Rama introduce BCS and show how external data can be viewed and manipulated (Create, Read, Update and Delete data) through the browser.   Upcoming videos...

Announcing the FY2010 Microsoft Firenze I BXT University Participants (in no particular order): MICHIGAN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CORNELL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Going to be an exciting year for this competition!...

The Information Security Tools (IST) team has released the InfoSec Assessment & Protection (A&P) Suite . The suite is made up of a technology stack of protection and assessment tools.  Anil Revuru (RV) and Mark Curphey in their recent podcast,...