Read this Knowledge Base article before you deploy Windows XP Service Pack 2 to your remote clients.

Take a look at something fun to play with: Windows Media Player 10 Technical Preview is online on the public site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/ ). It's got some nice Longhornish styling built-in and some noticable improvements...

Imagine if you could take a video, and use your computer to turn it into a cartoon…perhaps not so far off, based on this work being done by Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=689 Neat. Want to learn about this...

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I'll be out for a couple of weeks, heading Down Under to just kick around New Zealand and Australia for a while (yes, I know it is winter there, but we have a friend who is on a non-Microsoft work-related trip and invited my wife and me along for vacation...

I am doing some work in ASP.Net at the moment ... and got back into Typed Datasets in a big way. These things smoke. Fill them up ... and you have a strongly typed object to work with ... also wanted to point people to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library...

We just published more(!) content for InfoPath. It just keeps coming, mainly because the interest is strong. Here are headlines from our main page as of a half-hour ago. A couple of these are re-issues. For example, we published 16 labs for InfoPath...

I’ve been spending the past two weeks focusing on pulling together our security efforts for Whidbey. See Soma's blog on security in our division. We have scheduled a multi week period before our Beta2 when the whole division will be focusing on security...

From one of my previous posts this week about my issues getting my new book (" Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists ") listed on Amazon.com, i did receive several pieces of feedback. One of feedbacks questioned my choice of the ATI tool named RenderMonkey...

<8/18/2004 update: see part II of this post, with a better solution: http://weblogs.asp.net/asanto/archive/2004/08/18/216825.aspx > .Net version 1.1 has a bug with XP Visual Styles which causes the following cryptic exception: "'System.Runtime.InteropServices...

Funk legend Rick James passed away at age 56 last week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5625044/ Please join me in a moment of silence to remember the Super Freak of Funk… Developer Division VBL (Virtual Build Lab). The concept of Virtual Build Labs is replicating...

Hi! I’ve just finished my second week working at Microsoft. Now that I'm starting to settle in I can get to the fun work with the CLR and dynamic languages. I’ve been fascinated by the power of programming languages and tools for many years, and I’ve...