You may or may not have heard of Bing yet. No…it’s “not just an expensive piece of equipment that only goes ‘Bing’,” it’s Microsoft’s newest search decision engine. It does a lot things a traditional search engine does, but it also does a really good...

There are a lot of utilities out there that will allow you to burn ISO images to a CD or DVD like Nero and Power2Go . But if you don’t want to waste the time or plastic to make disc, your best bet is use a program that can mount an ISO just a like it...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 this week, a new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit has also been released. This kit includes 28 presentations, 13 demos, and 16 hands-on labs. Excelsior! Technorati...

The Linked .NET Users Group will have Scott Guthrie giving a live webcast entitled “The Gu talks shop with developers" on May 27th at 11:30 AM PT. Registration Link: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-ScottGu-talks-shop-developers/pub/60571 Location...

Ramp Up is a free online learning program for developers. Ramp Up recently launched three ASP.NET tracks: Web Development with ASP.NET Move from ASP to ASP.NET Move from PHP to ASP.NET These tracks, along with the other currently offered ones (e.g., Windows...

Our Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team has release a process template for Team Foundation Server 2008 . Why is this important? Ask yourself, how secure is your application? Is security built into your application from the beginning or an afterthought...

Jason Zander, our DevDivision General Manager, posted a really great article on VSTS 2010 / .NET 4.0 . It has a lot of screenshots of the new interface (which uses WPF), a quick run through of each Role Edition of VSTS, and as well as what to expect for...

Bruce Kyle, one of the ISV Architect Evangelists, wrote a nice blog article on the Microsoft product roadmaps based on things that were announced at TechEd 2009 last week. It doesn’t talk about specific release dates, but if you were trying to figure...

I know…for all of you who came up to our booths at TechEd 2009 last week, why didn’t we say something? Honestly, they didn’t tell us until the end of the last day. Go figure. For all you MSDN users, Beta 1 is available to you today. To non-MSDN subscribers...

If you've had an opportunity to play around with the VSTS 2010 CTP 12 image that was made available to world back at PDC 08 in October, you probably saw glimpses of a product we codenamed "Camano." It's a separate test case management and manual test...

The TechEd conference is best known for showcasing Microsoft technology that is currently shipping or will ship within the next 6 months. I would say that's changed for this event with regards to Visual Studio. In some of the sessions and in the exhibit...

Last week, we released the Windows 7 Release Candidate to TechNet and MSDN subscribers . Today, May 5, 2009, its now available for everyone to download and try . Remember, even though it’s fairly stable, you want to really be careful installing this on...

As of today, May 5, 2009, the Release Candidate for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been made available. This of course includes the Hyper-V RC technology. For more information and to download it, go to the Windows Server 2008 web site . Excelsior! Technorati...

I just assumed the rumors were true that there was no upgrade path from Win7 Beta (Build 7000) to Win7 RC (Build 7100) and decided to use the trick the Win7 Dev Team wrote up on their blog entitled Delivering a quality upgrade experience . Sure enough...

In case you missed Brian Harry’s presentation at the Linked .NET Users Group on VSTS 2010, you can download the replay from their web site at http://www.lidnug.org/Presentations.aspx . According the LiveMeeting console, it showed that were 357 attendees...

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...