Due to a scheduling issue, our webcast for Expression Studio Overview didn’t take place. If you’d like to learn more about Expression Studio itself, check out this link. To see a number of webcasts on the Expression products, check out virtual labs, and...

Crazy. As soon as I decide to write something about Beta to RC to RTM , the very same day we announce that a RC (release candidate) image will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30 . It will be more broadly available on May 5. I was...

Registration has begun for the SoCal Summer Code Camp in San Diego. Also, if you’re interested in speaking at the event, you can sign up to be a speaker as well. Code Camps are community driven events where developers come and learn from their peers....

While up at Cisco’s Toolapalooza, we had a number of people ask us about Windows 7 , from how stable is it to how can I get access to the beta to when will it be available. I can’t attest for all the people using Windows 7, but on one of my test systems...

With the announcement of Oracle to buy Sun MicroSystems , I started to think about all the computer companies that where powerhouses back in the day and unless you’ve been around for a while, you might have only heard about them in an “introduction to...

The QFE (quick fix engineering) rollup release for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (General Distribution Release) is now available. Check out this blog article for how to get it and set it up. Read this blog article to learn what fixes...

The Linked .NET Users Group ( http://www.lidnug.org ) which has over 20,000 uses on LinkedIn and targeted for professionals using or interested in Microsoft .NET technologies and the C# language in particular, will be holding a virtual user group meeting...

If you’re interested in knowing more about the next release of Visual Studio (Pro, Team Editions, and TFS), I recommend you check out Brian Harry’s blog article on Team System 2010 Overview . He’s started to provide a bullet list of items in key feature...

I’ve been a bit out of touch with the announcements of this week. So in case you haven’t heard, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was made available on Tuesday (April 7). So in addition to it including all of the released hot fixes and minor updates...

During the month of April, May, and June, Microsoft will be running a series of workshops via LiveMeeting on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). There is continual pressure for IT departments to accomplish more...

Shortly after I joined Microsoft, I got to attend an internal event called TechReady. Think of TechEd and PDC for Microsoft employees. During one of the keynotes, they introduced a video showing of Microsoft’s vision of the Digital Lifestyle. It was a...

I know…has we made the announcement yesterday (April 1st), no one would have believed us. So it was announced today on the SharePoint blog page. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx...