After 5.74 great years at Microsoft I have decided to move on to the next big thing. This blog will soon be closed down. You can find my Monthly Update material at my other blog --> http://automangle.spaces.live.com/ Thanks for your interest and support...

I create this graphical view of the publicly available product support lifecycle information published at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectindex . I hope you find it useful. Thanks. Chris. [Moderator: Attachment Removed]

Here is my latest update for November and my final for 2009. This is a consolidation of a variety of publicly available content from Microsoft. I hope you find the information useful. Your feedback is welcome. Thanks. Chris.

Today Microsoft announced the acquisition of the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC. From http://www.teamprise.com/products Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from...

Hi, Here is my Microsoft Monthly Update covering September and October 2009. I hope you find the information useful. Thanks. Chris.

If you have ever been caught with performance problems you should watch this PDC 2008 session. If you have never had performance problems ... you should still watch the session because you may not know you already have a problem :-) Improving .NET...

MSDN Subscribers: Download the Beta The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Beta 2 is available to MSDN subscribers now, with general availability on October 21st (22nd in Australia). This c9 video is a great way to get started 10-4 Episode 33...

You can find a PDF copy of the slide deck Mark Burch and I presented at TechEd Australia 2009 here . If you attended TechEd you can login and find the official version on the TechEd Australia 2009 website here .

The 1394 FireWire driver was updated in the Windows 7 and some older 1394 devices may not be compatible with the new driver. The old driver is still available as highlighted here. This solved my initial problems with a Maxtor III OneTouch drive. See this...

I recently provided this brief update on what's new in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 to a number of organisations. Please follow the attached link and download the presentation file for details.

I publish this update each month. It is a summary of all the public information on the Microsoft.com website in one convenient document. I hope you find it useful. I'm not sure whether to continue to publish it to my regular contacts via email or to publish...

Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd670265.aspx The Microsoft SDL Process Template for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is a downloadable template that directly integrates the Security...

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It’s good to be an MSDN subscriber. On August 6 th , the first public release of Windows 7 will be available to MSDN Subscribers, which is over two months ahead of the general availability date of October 22 nd for retail and OEM customers. · All...

You may already be aware of these resources but ... - You can find a pre-release version of the Microsoft TFS Quality Center Connector here https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=628&DownloadID=15667 . The corresponding...

ABOUT THE PDC The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft’s developer platform, exchange ideas...

AnnounceOnline() (I just love WCF Discovery in .Net 4.0) Is BizTalk in your past, present or future? Mark Burch and I may be able to help you speed things up a little. Come to our " SOA311 BizTalk 2009 - Performance Tuning Tips " session at Tech...

Out of pure curiosity I ran a very simple timing test for different WCF bindings: WSHttp (default), NetNamedPipe, NetTcp and local method call (i.e. no WCF involved). I didn't do any performance tuning. The client and server are both hosted on my laptop...

Just a few quick "note to self" type reminders when installing (not configuring, that's a longer tale) BizTalk 2009 on Windows Server 2008 ... - RTFM which you can get from here - Install the w2k8 service packs. You can get SP2 from here . -...

Microsoft is planning another Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) this year! You can find recordings of the 2008 event and some preliminary information on the 2009 event here http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ and you can add your name to the PDC2009...

AnnounceOnline() Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 is now available to MSDN subscribers on http://www.msdn.com . One exciting feature of .Net 4.0 is the inclusion of the WCF Discovery libraries which implement the WS-Discovery protocol. WS-Discovery provides...

Come to Tech Ed Australia and immerse yourself in over 150 IT learning opportunities, including deep dive technical sessions, hands-on and instructor-led labs and certifications.

Over the coming weeks I will be co-instructor on a facilitated BizTalk 2006 R2 self study course. I'll make an effort to blog interesting learnings along the way. Stay tuned BizTalkers...

So much to choose from Microsoft .NET Framework Data Access from A to Z Advanced Windows Debugging Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET Creating Rich Internet Applications...

Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Tool Kit (EATK) to the rescue! I highly recommend you take the time to check this out if you are at all involved in managing (or being managed by) architects. Enables IT Transparency Proactive Architecture Process...