Alan Griver (yag) and I were interviewed together for the new Channel 9 video weblog on http://channel9.msdn.com . Both interviews mention Visual FoxPro, our new XML tools coming in Visual Studio 2005, and other tools that the VS Data team is working...

There are two new DevCenters on msdn.com, the Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center and the XML DevCenter . A great article titled All About Blogs and RSS online from MSDN Magazine, April 2004. Tip: The msdn.com domain name auto redirects to...

I had the opportunity to present on Web Services Enhancements 2.0 today for an IS class at the UW-Madison School of Business. It was bright and early by college standards - class started at 9:30 - so I can appreciate that the students were a bit slow...

Be sure to mark your calendar for Wednesday, April 14th at 10:00 AM (PST) for the monthly webcast covering the security bulletins for April. Here's the link and some more information: TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft's April Security Bulletins...

So I asked before what types of features you would like to see in Managed DirectX (and the feedback was awesome - I'm still interested in this topic).. What I'm also interested in that I didn't ask about back then though was what types of things people...

TechEd is fast approaching and you should be sure to check out the preconference sessions that are available on Sunday, May 23rd. In particular, if you want to come up to speed on Web services you should check out Essential Web Services: Programming with...

I've seen a awful lot of comments lately about all the cool stuff that can be done with al.exe. I'd just like to point out that with very few exceptions csc.exe can do almost everything that al.exe can do. One of those exceptions deals with the /template...

My first two developer articles for PowerPoint are now available on the Office Developer Center : How PowerPoint 2003 Plays Multimedia Files in a Presentation The title pretty much say it all. The first article should actually be of interest to...

The final article in my three-part series on how to automate prepress processes in Publisher 2003 is now live on the Office Developer Center . This one deals with several topics, including generating composite CMYK, PostScript, and PDF output from...

I was doing a bit of research for an upcoming presentation series, and I came across a great post on WS-Eventing for Dummies as well as a follow-up, WS-Eventing for Dummies, Part II: The Subscription Response . Surfing the chain, I finally wound up on...

In VS 2003 we did some things in C# to make viewing of data in the debugger easier. The first problem we had was that if you expanded a type, in the watch window, you would get an unsorted list of members. This was a pain if you were searching for...

The inaugural meeting of the GTA East .NET User Group is set for Tuesday, April 20th from 6-9pm. Kate Gregory will present an overview of .NET and how the user group works. The meeting is in Oshawa at the EDS offices: please visit http://gtaeast.torontoug...