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...