Microsoft has a Robotics "Club" that meet on a regular basis - check out the video on MSDN Channel9 to see what folks are working on and building... click the image for the link... Also, look out for Rich Davies from the SPOT MSDN Channel9 Video ....

On July 8th, a couple of us from the XML team held a hosted chat on MSDN Chats . The transcripts of the C# and XML chat are now available. We answered questions on our existing behavior in Everett as well as upcoming technologies in Whidbey. If there...

A few weeks ago, I stopped into Chili's with a friend for a beer. I noticed a wine store next door called “Grape Escape” (no web site to link to but they are in Crossroads Shopping Center) and loving wine as much as I do, I went inside. Just...

Stan Lippman has started an interesting series of blog entries on how Managed C++ determines which function foo to call when you call foo(bar) given that there may be several visible functions of that name in the current scope. That's quite coincidental...

Jim Presto [ RSS ], a tester on the Visual Studio Team System source control team (aka Hatteras), has started blogging. Jim joins a prolific group of source control bloggers, including Buck Hodges , James Manning , Chris Rathjen , Korby Parnell and Jason...

As Frank mentioned here . Michael and I will be making a video for Channel9 at Tech•Ed this year. I'm in the pre-production phase today, going through some ideas for a very corny opening. If you're going to be at Tech•Ed then keep an eye out...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/community I added a little blurb at the top asking folks to send in any ideas they have for this page, please use it... I try to scan the community sites regularly but I'm certainly missing a lot of stuff. If you see something...

I’m often asked how designers can gain credibility and influence on the product development cycle. To move from PhotoShop Jock, to someone who can influence the products your team builds, you’ll have to think like a business owner and apply...

It's time I threw my two cents into the air conditioning discussion from Dan's blog (see http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/07/30/201459.aspx ) So I think what this discussion thread is really missing is a mention of cost/benefit analysis...

Microsoft Sponsoring ITSMF: Beyond the Foundation, Building the Future The itSMF USA, in their commitment to assisting business and technical managers to achieve IT service management excellence, is pleased to announce their 4th Annual itSMF USA Conference...

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TechNet Webcast: Managing Windows Server 2003 Best Practices - Part 1: Operations and Tasks - Level 200 Monday, August 02, 2004 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Pacific Time, US & Canada Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Do you want to gain...