Recently I had to download some windows 8 consumer preview drivers for my Samsung Series 7 Slate. But when a file is downloaded from the web, Windows tags those files (if its an archive, it tags the files inside that archive as well) with a security attribute...

Recently I ran into a colleague who was looking for a way to quickly dev-debug an issue that was reproing on a mobile device. He wanted to ‘inspect’ the ajax calls the web app was making from the device to help him with a possible caching issue. Here...

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  I am extremely happy today to note the latest release from my team – a brand new design of the MSN Homepage for Mobile Devices. Its been a fast paced and hectic journey to get this new design shipped and to completely overhaul and improve page...

While developing a widget for a mobile webpage, I ran into a strange performance issue with transparent png in Windows Phone 7 landscape mode. First off, Windows Phone 7 provides an outstanding mobile phone experience. But like any software platform it...

Big news from Developer Division yesterday. Scott Guthrie announced the release of slew of tools – all of which are free for anyone to use. Excerpt from Scott Guthrie’s blog I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3...

The new MSN US homepage is now released to the world with a new design, new features and tweaks to the interface based on feedback and learning's from user interaction on the page since the new UI went live as a preview. A bold new interface and feature...

I am very happy to note that the preview of the newly redesigned and revamped MSN Homepage ( http://preview.msn.com ) with a host of brand new features and functionality has gone live. Some of key upgrades that regulars to the MSN homepage will immediate...

Project Tuva is a new initiative from Microsoft Research that brings together excellent lectures from great scientists and physicists wrapped together and presented in a way that augments the learning experience. I finished my first video of Dr. Richard...

Head over to the Mix’09 videos to see an excellent video presentation by John Hrvatin on Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites . The video has some great tips on optimizing javascript used in many common scenarios, a demo of the new javascript...

If you are web developer using Microsoft stack, then you would probably know about the awesome Express edition products ( Visual Web Developer Express , Sql Server 2008 Express , Visual C# 2008 Express and others ). I refer my friends (and fellow geeks...

If you are using Visual Studio 2008 for XSLT development you will no doubt be familiar with the intellisense/autocomplete option for XSLT schema elements. For instance, when you type say <xsl: you will notice the intellisense dropdown that displays...

In my day job I get to work on a lot of XSLTs consuming a variety of xml data formats and if you do as well, you will know how much of a trouble it is to debug arcane bugs in the transforms, and how much of a shot in the dark it is to write optimized...

A question a few of my friends have asked me is - what does building the homepages mean, and do I develop content that is put on the homepages? The engineering team does not create or update the content on the sites. Instead, the content and the layout...

This is the first post to my blog and I’d like to start off with some introduction to what I do in Microsoft. I am a developer with the MSN Global Homepages Engineering team, the team that develops the MSN homepages for US and international markets. For...