Software & Services - Bret Grinslade

Here is a fun tool that you can use to see VE and G Maps side by side. You can really feel how web services are going to change everything soon... http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=47.63766&lon=-122.133539&z=19.1&r=0&src=1 This location...

I don't know about you but all the beta / CTP downloads can just drive you nuts. I work on VS and .NET Framework setup and a lot of issues people hit are by trying to fit a square peg through a round hole (that is, the builds aren't supposed to work together...

I have been using the MSN Search service in its beta form for several months. To be 100% honest here, I started using it primarily because I work for Microsoft, but I was also very curious to see how the MSN search folks were doing. I know some of the...

Web services are still really big at Microsoft. I can't wait for the public releases of Indigo to make this all much easier to do. On the MSDN and SDK teams there has been a lot of talk about exposing web services, adopting RSS as a standard syndication...

I really like MSDN these days. Sure there are a lot of things that could be better or different. Dev centers, docs, samples, www.asp.net , RSS feeds and lots more. I work on the Longhorn SDK. Even though it is very early and things will certainly change...