There are thousands of Microsoft blogs out in the blogsphere and many don’t talk about just one technology. This can make it difficult to decision which blog to add to your RSS feed if you were interested one specific technology. Is Brian Harry ’s blog...

The other day while I was writing some code (yeah, I still do that occasionally) and added a Test Project to my solution, I thought it was odd that although I was writing my solution in C#, the default Test Project is always VB? So I poked around the...

In case you’re still on the fence as to whether you want to upgrade your Visual Studio Professional Edition to a Visual Studio Team Edition (Architecture, Development, or Test) or Visual Studio Team Suite, how does saving 30% and 45% off when you step...

You may have read the Microsoft is going to start it’s own retail stores , kind of like the Apple Stores. The first one in Southern California is going to be in Mission Viejo at The Shops at Mission Viejo and and the first one in Arizona is going to be...

I recently bought a road bike to get outside more and breath more of the smog filled Southern California air. Being a gadget guy, I’ve been looking at getting a GPS-enabled speedometer, like the Garmin Edge 305 or above . I track my workouts using MapMyRide...

If you’re thinking about attending PDC09 this year, we just announced a pre-PDC workshop on “Developing Quality Software using VSTS 2010.” Its a full-day workshop and they will be going through entire lifecycle of building quality into your software development...

Registration for the PDC 2009 (Professional Developers Conference) is now open. This year, it will be held on November 17-19 in Los Angeles, CA. If you register by September 15, 2009, you’ll get $500 off the registration fee. To see what sessions are...

With l ast week’s release of Expression Studio 3 , we’ve also made a change to which MSDN Subscribers got Expression Studio with their subscription. Expression Studio 3 is now available to ALL MSDN Premium subscribers. Prior to this last release, only...

You have may heard a lot of buzz about Windows 7 being released to manufacturing (RTM). This is a huge milestone for any software organization because it means that the coding is done, product team has signed off on the deliverables, and it’s being prepared...

What a day! First Expression 3 products become available for download and now, hot off the presses (assuming there still are such things)! Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 , and Hyper-V 2008 R2 have hit their milestone called Released To Manufacturing...

Brian Keller , Technical Evangelist for VSTS, just published an introduction to the Historical Debugger on Channel 9’s 10-4 Show . The Historical Debugger is a new feature coming in VSTS 2010 that will allow developers to to record what’s happening on...

Expression Studio 3 and Expression Web 3 60-day trial editions are now available for download . These tools will enable you design and development more richer looking .NET applications and coupled with Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services, you’ll be able...

The Linked .NET Users Group will have Microsoft Product Unit Manager Brad Abrams giving a live webcast on “ Silverlight ready for business and . NET RIA Services on July 30th at 8:00 PM PT (which means this webcast is going to be pretty late or early...

Quest Software ’s database schema provider (DSP) for Oracle, codenamed TeamFuze , is now in public beta. The DSP allows independent software vendors to create a provider for non-Microsoft database to advantages of features in the Visual Studio Team System...

On Friday, July 10, we released Silverlight 3 to web. Version 3 of Silverlight definitely makes a lot more advances over Silverlight 2 for delivering rich internet applications (RIAs). Check out the Silverlight blog on the announcement its features. Now...

I often get asked by customers interested in TFS about what would it take to migrate their existing source control data over to TFS or what solutions are available to connect TFS with another bug tracking systems. Our MSDN site team just published...

Tomorrow, July 7th, 10AM PT/1PM ET – The Michael Jackson memorial will be broadcasted live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight to the world. As you can imagine this has come together fast and should...

Going on right now at Microsoft Online Store , you can get Expression products at 50% off . If you’re interested in Windows 7 , you can pre-order the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade or Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for $49.99 and $99.99 respectively....

MVP David Hayden has made available a number of screencasts for ASP.NET MVC that he’s built from a number of presentations held at the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group . His post on ASP.NET MVC Ajax Helpers Screencast also provides a list of ASP.NET...

The Linked .NET Users Group will have Tim Heuer giving a live webcast on “RIAs and Silverlight 3.0” on July 9th at 10:30 AM PT. Tim is a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight and he’ll be talking about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and how Silverlight...

The Patterns & Practices Group recently released the Beta 2 version of their Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance book (Vol 1) out on CodePlex. I haven’t had a chance to read it cover to cover yet, but it does appear to capture a lot of the main concepts...

I’ve been a using Bing when it was only available internally to Microsoft employees and now externally since it’s been officially released. I heard a lot about its new features and how it’s more of a “decision” engine rather than yet another search engine...

Tech Geeks are Rock Stars! Don’t believe me, check out Intel’s commercial showcasing Ajay Bhatt and how people (geeks) flock to him. One of Microsoft’s Rock Stars, Brian Harry , will be at the New York City VSTS Users Group meeting on Tuesday, June 30...

Occasionally I get asked how to create custom reports and modify the existing reports in TFS. First, you’ll need to understand how the data cubes in the TFS Warehouse are setup. Then, I recommend you check out the article by Ben Day on Edit the Remaining...

On the Windows Team Blog , the Windows 7 Team announced that Windows 7 will be in stores beginning October 22, 2009, just in time for the holidays. This date marks the general availability (GA) date, which means that the Release To Manufacturing (RTM...