It's a great time to join Microsoft as Jay Roxe points out two jobs he wants to hire for including Visual Studio Product Manager and Visual Studio Tools for Office Product Manager positions .

Why is it so obvious to anyone outside of Microsoft that our branding strategy needs help ?

There's a Half Life 2 contest using Garry's Mod to create Rube Goldberg devices (an incredibly complex device designed to accomplish a very simple task). This video shows a hilarious one Source: Digg.com

The C# team currently has four software development positions in Test and Rusty blogs about the cool tools used internally including CompilerFX, TAO, and DELTA . Check it out and email the team at vcsjobs@microsoft.com .

Scott Currie sent me this a while back and I'm only getting around to posting about it now, but this is hilarious !!!

I ran into this one while migrating our Beta 2 code to VS RTM for an internal reporting site, but the behavior for ASP.NET 2.0 changed within betas and, in short, anytime you want to add a formatting string, like any of the numeric or date format strings...

Thanks to Charles for sending me this link, but Sushovan De posted on Channel9 some cool Visual Studio Express themed wallpaper for all the Express products! Higher Res Image Links Visual Web Developer Express Visual Basic Express Visual...

I'm actually surprised that this didn't make more noise, but we officially launched a Visual Studio Servicing Web site that includes timeframes for when the Developer Division will release Visual Studio service packs. Snipped from the site: Visual...

If you're one of those people that get songs stuck in your head, don't follow any of these links :) I love Family Guy . Its arguably my favorite TV show right now and its simply brilliant (The Daily Show with John Stewart is a very close second). On...

Here's a gem from David Goodhand, a Microsoft vet that arguably taught me everything I needed to know about giving technical presentations on how to manually create Outlook Calendar appointments. Copy/Pasted from David's email If you’re try to...

Sam Weera wrote a VB mod using some of my old Google Images screenscraping demo code and created a Google Images Slideshow app in VB. Arian Kulp also wrote a handy Coding4Fun article showing how to create your own Wallpaper Cycler These are both...

A customer recently emailed me asking why Object Test Bench doesn't work for Web projects and it seems there isn't any documentation on this limitation anywhere. In short, Object Test Bench (OTB) does *not* work with Web projects. Due to a bug, OTB still...