This question comes up frequently enough (exhibit A ), that I thought I should blog about it to help raise the Google-juice and add some self-help to confused customers. Answer: When you add a local SQL Server Express database to a Visual Studio Express...

Did you know that we've been paying for it the last 108 years through a federal phone excise tax of 3% on our phone bill to fund the war effort? Apparently no one thought to remove it until now. Fully story | Digg it

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Made In Express Contest, it’s a two-stage process where the first stage is simply submitting your idea (no coding involved) and if your idea is deemed good enough, then you will move on to Stage two where you...

I’ve been on vacation but been totally fascinated by the blogosphere news on E3 , but it sounds like Nintendo and Microsoft did well at the show, but Sony seemed to have bombed. The Inside Microsoft blog had a post “ Reaction to Sony @ E3…Uh…Not Great...

The year was 1972, bell bottoms were all the rage, the US was in Vietnam, The Price is Right premiered on CBS, the Dallas Cowboys had just won Superbowl VI, the Godfather was the top grossing film, and on November 29th, Atari released a game called Pong...

[This question came up recently on an internal DL so I thought I would elaborate] On the Visual Studio 2005 Product Feature Comparison Chart , you'll notice that the User Experience row lists Visual Studio Express as having "simplified menus and options...

As I blogged about earlier , and as was mentioned on Slashdot and Digg , Mech Commander 2 is available to download, and using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and the webcasts listed below, you too can learn how to create your own game mods. Michael...

At Maker Faire, I got to meet the local guys from SVC who came to help out at the booth, including Anand Iyer . Anand is part of the national Microsoft team (like Geoff and Rory ) that does MSDN events and they have several upcoming events you should...

Kudos to Dale Dougherty, Phil Torrone, Dan Woods, Sherri Huss, Katie Dougherty, Louise Glasgow, Bre Pettis and the rest of the O'Reilly team for a "phenomenal" Maker Faire. The total attendance was a whopping 20,000+!! That's huge! The thing that really...