If you've read his blog lately, or visited the Office Developer Center front page , then you know that John Durant has relinquished the reins at the ODC, in order to become a program manager for Visual Studio Tools for Office. I've worked with John...

BizTalk Server (BTS) lleva muy poco tiempo en el mercado. Su curva de aprendizaje comprende las versiones 2000, 2002 y 2004 y aunque ha avanzada considerablemente (el tener la versión 2004 corriendo en .NET creanme que fue lo mas cool que pudo pasar,...

Today I had my first experience with using manifest files for Win32 binaries. If you're only familiar with .NET manifest, never fear, as Windows itself uses essentially the same mechanisms. In my particular case, I wanted to ensure that a DLL I wrote...

The DSL Tools come with a template-based artifact generation engine that allows you to generate code files, text files, XML files, HTML files etc. from models. Gareth has put a nice summary of the syntax that we use for this engine on his blog : Having...

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Es ist nun soweit. In der Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 wird nun endlich die Vereinheitlichung der SQL Provider erfolgen. Das heißt man nutzt den System.Data.SqlClient Namensbereich um mit den Objekten auch im SQL Server 2005 zu programmieren. Hierfür hat...

I had to post about this. I'm sure it's been seen on blogs.msdn but I just finished watching the Channel 9 four part stream with NT Kernel Architect - Dave Probert. Check out the parts here . He gets deep into the guts of the kernel including the object...

I am perhaps a bit late with this one, but I was reading about the Acid2 test on slashdot . I need to dig in a little more to understand the specific requirements of the test. I've done a ton of browser programming and the only thing I have learned...

A reader emailed me a question about running under a non-administrator account in Windows today, which prompted me to do a little MSNSearch-ing. That lead me very quickly to Aaron Margosis's excellent blog . If you are interested in how you can get by...

Como saben el Service Pack 2 de Windows XP fue publicado desde al año pasado (creo que en Agosto) , pero el proceso de distribución por medio del Windows Update y del Automatic Updates fue bloqueado. Si bien los problemas de seguridad en la plataforma...

My post on MSDN Blogs :-)

I'd like to think I'm an objective reviewer, but I pay homage to the Transparency deities, so here I go. I work for Microsoft , and Beyond Bullet Points is published by Microsoft Press . So there. The book If your work depends on others' and involves...