Office updates released after today (July 12th, 2005) may be uninstalled like most Windows updates if certain criteria is met. You can find more details in this KB article "Information about the ability to uninstall Office updates" . And the very first...

Thanks to all that attended our mini-session today on the Class Designer. As promised you can download the slides from here and the thirty minute recording can be found here .

I just saw a nice interview with MS CEO Steve Ballmer on Channel 9. Check it out when you have about 10 minutes.

Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide by Todd Cochrane I just finished reading this book. Overall it's a great jump start to podcasting. It has good coverage of basic recording technique without getting bogged down in semi-relevant technical detail. ...

Paul Downey and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen just published a report on "XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences" that W3C organized last month. Also, W3C has started a new XML Schema wiki site .

Say you have a WebMethod and a SoapMethod that look like this: [WebMethod] public void Void( string s) { throw new Exception ( "blah" ); } [SoapMethod("Void")] public void Void( string s) { throw new Exception ( "blah...

Gretchen posted on Monday about how to work for Microsoft if you don't live in North America . I think I may have linked to material on this before since I have gotten questions about the issues, and I do not know as much about this as I probably ought...

In my original post on Java interop with MSMQ , I gave a sample implementation of a Queue class for Java that was able to send and receive strings, and I suggested that it would be pretty simple to extend it to send whatever you want. A couple of people...

In cased you missed it - A very cool tool! The Microsoft® SQL Server Report Pack for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 is a set of predefined report definition files that work with a sample database of information extracted from a SharePoint...

As a direct result of working with DPE, Proposion (ISV for Lotus Notes related technologies www.proposion.com ) has announced two new products. This product reads Notes databases that are derived from standard Lotus templates and migrates them to SharePoint...

Martin Fowler ha publicado un interesante articulo que describe las mejoras en las herramientas en construccion de software y denomina esta evolución < Language Workbenches >. Me encontraba buscando en el web sobre detalles de la forma en que Steve...

We have a member of the .NET CLR team coming to NZ who is going to work with customers to ensure that applications that work on the .NET Framework 1.1 will work on the new 2.0 release. Here is the blurb: The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 builds...