That's what one of my web focused customers asked recently. I thought about it and I came to the conclusion, that Visual Studio 2008 provides a great balance between higher productivity and risk mitigation. Read more at: Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? What...

As Tim announced last week, Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is live . Now if you're wondering how you and the users of your Silverlight apps are seamlessly getting from RC to RTM and beyond to take advantage of new features and security updates...

Are you still writing deserialization classes for XML types? Don’t you just want to copy an example XML document and have Visual Studio auto generate the deserialization class? Steve Maine just showed this little tool that’s currently available in...

A customer recently requested a briefing on a list of topics related to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). In response, we had a LiveMeeting call, during which I used the attached slide deck as the talking points. Since...

A couple of years ago I was showing a customer how to configure ASP.NET for use in a web farm. Part of the procedure requires you to adjust the <machinekey> element in each server to the same settings, so that the ASP.NET encryption logic is using...

A customer recently sent me a long list of questions with a generally skeptical tone. Since I spent a good deal of time generating a written response, I thought it would be useful to share it with readers of this blog. Note that this is my representation...

The new MSDN Wiki encourages contributions from users in order to improve the documentation of Visual Studio and other developer products. I decided to give it a try and so I tacked my words of wisdom onto the LoginView class description. It’s something...

I just posted a blog about Microsoft Unified Communications strategy we just unveiled: http://blogs.msdn.com/hanuk/archive/2006/06/26/647627.aspx - hanuk

Look at my blog entry for high level information on our recent WinFX rebranding: WinFX rebranded as .NET Framework 3.0! - hanuk

Based on my recent conversations at NAF there seems to be this dichotomy between Enterprise Architects (EA) and Solution Architects (SA) in terms the chances of success of SOA at a larger scale. Winning the hearts and minds of SAs is one of the fundamental...

Well, my first team blog entry. I work with Dave, whom you've met, except I cover MN, ND, SD, Iowa and Nebraska. I cover most accounts in those states with the exception of some of our big retail and healthcare accounts. Ever since the idea of a team...

Dave's computer career began during his high school years in the 1950's when he had the opportunity to work on a wood-burning mainframe system. By improving the stack algorithm, he was able to boost the power and reduce the risk of deadly emissions, which...

Welcome to our team blog. We created this site in order to share the experiences and insights of the Microsoft Architect Evangelists who serve the United States Central Region. This idea was suggested by Microsoft customers who attended our Central...