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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

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

Date: 10/26/2010

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

Date: 10/12/2010

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

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

Date: 09/22/2010

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

Date: 09/10/2010

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

Date: 09/09/2010

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

Date: 05/27/2010

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

Date: 04/16/2010

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

Date: 02/03/2010

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

Date: 09/17/2009

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

Date: 04/30/2009

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

Date: 04/16/2009

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

Date: 03/19/2009

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

Date: 02/13/2009

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

Date: 02/11/2009

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

Date: 02/10/2009

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

Date: 02/02/2009

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

Date: 01/18/2009

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

Date: 01/08/2009

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

Date: 01/06/2009

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

Date: 01/06/2009

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

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

Date: 12/10/2008

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

Date: 11/16/2008

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

Date: 11/08/2008

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

Date: 10/31/2008

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

Date: 10/27/2008

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

Date: 10/27/2008

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

Date: 10/06/2008

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

Date: 09/30/2008

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

Date: 09/25/2008

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

Date: 09/22/2008

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

Date: 09/18/2008

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

Date: 09/18/2008

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

Date: 09/08/2008

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

Date: 09/08/2008

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

Date: 09/03/2008

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

Date: 09/02/2008

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

Date: 09/02/2008

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

Date: 08/26/2008

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

Date: 08/22/2008

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

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

Date: 08/15/2008

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

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

Date: 08/12/2008

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

Date: 08/12/2008

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