Grant Holliday, an MVP from Australia, recently joined Microsoft's VSTS team and has moved to Redmond. As an MVP, he blogged very heavily about TFS, had some really good insight about the product, and offered a lot of good information about how to use...

Today marks the last day Mr. Gates will be a blue badge employee at Microsoft. I wonder if that means he'll come back as a consultant, which means that his rate will probably be double or triple what we paid him as an employee. I occasionally get asked...

Microsoft recently released a Security Advisory (954462) stating that web sites are being attacked via SQL Injection techniques . Most attacks typically try to exploit the operating system (IIS, SQL Server, Windows, Linux, Apache, etc.). SQL Injection...

A lot of people we disappointed that our virtualization technology did not ship with Windows Server 2008 back in February; however, today it was released Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology! I've seen earlier version of Hyper-V and...

On my portable hard drive, I have a number of ISO images for various software (Windows OSes, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc.). I do this so I don't have to carry around a bunch of CDs/DVDs with me when I'm traveling. It's also useful because Virtual PC...

This is probably old hat to a lot of you, but it's been a while since I've had to setup a Windows server, in particular one with POP3 and SMTP services. In the past, I always used an Exchange Server (especially if I was working working with the Small...

Continuing on the theme of C++, this Friday, June 20, 2008 (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time), the next installment of the .NET Developer Update (.NDU) will be: Microsoft's investments in C++ Visual C++ provides a powerful and flexible development environment...

I was recently had a customer call me about Silverlight 1.1 and that everything was working fine up until a few days ago. They haven't changed the code but now the Silverlight plug-in is presenting them with the following error message: What the deuce...

SQL Server 2008 is in its final stages before it is Released to Manufacturing (RTM) in Q3 of this year. At TechEd IT Professional Edition in Orlando, FL this week, Bob Muglia talked about SQL Server 2008 in his keynote and announced that Release Candidate...

On Friday, June 13, 2008 (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time), the next installment of the .NDU will be: Visual Studio of C++ Developers Visual C++ provides a powerful and flexible development environment for creating Microsoft Windows-based and Microsoft...

For those of you living in or near the Southern California area, summer-time means (besides fire season) that the SoCal Code Camp will be held in San Diego on June 28th and 29th at University of California San Diego Extension complex in La Jolla . Code...

At TechEd this week, the SharePoint team announced the website, http://mssharepointdeveloper.com/ . It’s a resource for .NET developers to get started with SharePoint development. Also, they announced v1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for...

Announced at TechEd on Tuesday, June 3, during Bill Gates' Keynote, Brian Harry showed up the first glimpse of DBPro supported another DBMS other than SQL Server. The first supported non-Microsoft DBMS for DBPro is IBM DB2 . Similar to using a provider...

In honor of TechEd (The Developer Edition) going on this week, our Public Sector teammates have declared this week Visual Studio MythWeek . They did short videos (about 5 minutes in length) to try and debunk the most common myths around Visual Studio...

I guess my IQ really is getting lower now that my kids are getting older because I just had one of the "slap on the forehead" moments. As developer tools specialist, I've been working with VS2008 to build .NET 3.5 samples and occasionally I...

Speaking of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (aka DBPro), Gert Drapers was interviewed for Channel 9 and talked about the new General Distribution Release (GDR) for DBPro that was announced this week at TechEd 2008. You can read more about...

On May 23, I did a webcast for the .NDU on Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. All .NDU webcasts are recorded, so in case you weren't able to attend them live or want to see any part that you missed, here's a link to my session . I always...