This is a topic that is close to my heart. Standards support. Over on the IE Blog, Chris is asking for feedback on IE and standards support. He is specifically asking about what is broken and what you would like fixed. This is your opportunity to tell...

"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it."

Say the title of this post three times fast. I met with a couple of great guys in the partner community at the summit today, Jeff Julian and John Alexander . I've known Jeff through the blogosphere for some time, but finally had the pleasure of speaking...

I was pinged by Marenco Kemp (a New Zeleander workmate from my UK days, living in London), letting me know of his music podcast show, Not Your Usual Bollocks . I'm listening to this (Show 6 - mp3) as I write. I like it and now subscribed (RSS): Thievery...

In prior versions of .NET, there were lots of discussions about how to support single-instance WinForms applications. Here are a couple of links discussed some ways to do that: here and here and here's one in C++ . For Whidbey, some of that functionality...

First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Chris Wilson; I’m the lead program manager for the web platform in IE. (I am NOT Chris Wilson the drummer for Good Charlotte. :^) ) I joined the IE team shortly before we shipped IE 2.0 in 1995, and...

We've got about 32 speakers and 63 sessions lined up so far amongst our 6 tracks, and more speakers keep coming forward. We should start to do the final session selections over the next week or so. As of Monday we had over 100 attendees registered , but...

On 3rd March 30 Austrian enterprise architects were having a discussion about Software Factories and possible effects on their industry. They decided the most interesting aspect to drill down is: Domain Specific Languages (DSL) Therefore we decided to...

I find some well-written documentation on NTLM/Kerberos and Constrained Delegation in W2k3 to share with my colleagues. They are useful as introduction and reference materials. NTLM http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html Kerberos http://www.microsoft...

We just announced that we’ll be shipping Team System with two methodologies out of the box: From eWeek : Microsoft Wednesday announced it will be offering two new process templates with the Visual Studio 2005 Team System's MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework...

The indigo team has some job openings. If you are passionate about working at Microsoft, passionate about distributed technologies and .NET, passionate about working on a product that's going to change the life of distributed system developers all over...

Rico Mariani has started up a Perf Wiki on Microsoft’s Channel 9 community website . He’s started it out with a good collection of articles from his blog on writing high performance applications. The Perf Wiki is very much worth a look.