A few weeks ago Gretchen wrote about our desire to become “Recruiting Evangelists”. As our newly formed team starts taking shape over the next few months we are realizing more and more that we will have an opportunity to work on some of the...

Working with the patterns & practices group has been a really interesting way to spend the last few years of my life (three years this week!). When I got here, we were just “PAG”, the team that worked on the first MSA and the Reference...

Hi, I'm Gareth Jones and I'm a developer in the architect team within the Visual Studio Team System group. I'm currently working on tooling and APIs for modeling. Previously within Microsoft, I've worked in a bunch of different roles, from building bespoke...

Daniel McPherson has an excellent post in his blog about Approval Routing and Workflow options for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server.

Inspired by my colleagues here, I have taken into blogging. I had wanted to do it for a long time now. With the beta release 2.0 version of the Microsoft .Net framework (code named 'Whidbey'), its a opportune moment to blog on some of the exciting features...

Not satisfied to just sit around and enjoy retirement, the Visio guys are at it again. Check out http://www.grawgroup.com/ and see what they are up to now. I have it on good information that they are having some fun with .NET, Whidbey and especially ASP...

It's a PDF that talks about getting Entourage and Exchange working together. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/DOWNLOAD/office2004/WorkingWithExchange.xml And also: Hello, I'm Gil Gordon, a Program Manager...

The topic of this post is PreAuthentication. HTTP Webservers support multiple authentication options. On Windows, IIS supports Basic, NTLM, Digest, Negotiate (a.k.a Integrated Windows Authentication). Of these, Basic & Kerberos support PreAuthentication...

Ok, admit it... Who went to JavaOne this year? If you did, and you still have your bag of goodies to hand, take a look through to see if you have the July edition (Issue #362) of Dr Dobbs Journal. In the middle of the magazine is a pull-out poster...

We have a developer position open on the debugger team, you can read more about it at http://www.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=9f4b66b0-c5bc-422e-ac63-5b1d8c0c0006 If you are interested in applying, please contact HR via the web site...

Don't forget to join Mauro, John, Drew and I in this morning's Interoperability with Web Services Web Cast: MSDN Architecture Webcast: Interoperability and Integration using Web Services - An Industry Perspective - Level 200 July 12, 2004 - 11:00AM...

Florin Lazar was the person that first introduced me to System.Transactions, he has a great weblog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/ That is full of information on how to set up your computer to use distributed transactions and really great...