Blurb from http://www.microsoft.com/mbsa : New version, MBSA 1.2.1, needed for Windows XP SP2 compatibility: Users of Windows XP Service Pack 2 will need to update their MBSA to version 1.2.1 for compatibility with SP2 security improvements. Windows XP...

Via Barry Fridley , check out the ISV Show: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/competency/isvcomp/isvshowarchive.aspx

A while back I sent mentioned this add-in development contest being sponsored by Roy (Who is now an MVP!) The community judges just finished picking the winners. You can see all the entries and the source code that was submitted on this page . There were...

Roy Osherove - Congratulations!

It's been pretty obvious to my wife and myself that to eat 'well' in the US you need to be 'rich.' Finally, a news story from NPR's Morning Edition that quantifies this succinctly. ( Obesity Often Linked to Income Americans eat about 50 percent of their...

Hello! I've been a dev at Microsoft for eight years now, and have been working on Visual Studio for the last five or six of them. Recently I've changed roles. I've always worked on the web development part of Visual Studio (from Visual InterDev through...

Our localization tool has a feature for performing inconsistency checks. It's not so good. It works roughly like this - it enumerates all English strings, and for each string it checks if there's more than one translation. If so - there's an inconsistency...

One of the most requested features on the Smartphone developer newsgroups is for a camera API. We're working on one for the next release of Smartphone, but until then check out the new wrapper released by the folks at OpenNETCF.org. Neil Cowburn has a...

Everytime I tried to launch IE and point to a URL, I spend some time to understand how and why IE reuses windows, this article may answer all your questions Stop Hijacking my Browser!

Thanks for all the responses to the question that I posed. The reason I posed it is that I've been seeing a lot of language requests coming through the MSDN feedback site, which is a good thing, but some of them are pretty obviously impractical, so I...

There have been some great articles on My coming out over the past month. This article by Jesse Liberty provides some good examples of how My services can be integrated into applications. If you're working with the Beta, you may notice a few discrepancies...

UK MSDN Flash went out with a great little article by my colleague Tim Sneath - copied here for convenience. I would definitely recommend MSDN Flash to folks - sign up at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/subscriptions/register.asp P.S. Doesn't Tim look...