Colt Kwong is putting on an awesome ASP.NET Exposed event ! If you want a copy of the DVD to do your own event, let me know!

Someone I know is considering moving up to the Seattle area and asked me about my Washington experience. Other friends of mine who are considering Microsoft actually ask me this a lot so I thought I'd write an entry about it. Here are some general...

I just realized that I should maybe provide a little better idea of who I am and what I do. My name is Eric Carter--I'm a Development Lead at Microsoft. My team and I are currently working on Visual Studio Tools for Office 2.0. My team (which fortunately...

You may have noticed my “I'll be there” picture.. I'll be there--isn't that like a really bad Michael Bolton song or something of that ilk? Anywhoo, I'll be at Tech-Ed this year talking about VSTO 2.0 mainly, but I'm sure I can help you...

We've just launched a UK centric Architects area at www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture (which admittedly is a little empty at the moment). We have plans to fill it up with good quality stuff as soon as we can so please keep checking on it! BTW, we...

Andrew Whitechapel has some interesting advise on using ReleaseCOMObject when writing managed code that automates office: http://blogs.officezealot.com/whitechapel/ . Andrew knows a lot about COM interop against Office and I trust what he says. But...

After much speculation and wondering , Channel 9 is alive. Channel 9 is a new way for Microsoft to communicate with the developer community in a human voice and to share another side of Microsoft. On a daily basis it will feature an inside glimpse...

I've been on the run since the wee hours of the morning (7am MVP summit meeting) but I felt the need to blog about the MVP Summit . First of all, the summit's more intimate than PDC was. It's partly occurring on the Microsoft Redmond campus and also...

Every other blog has already announced the arrival of Channel 9 , so I won’t go into much detail. But, think of it as an experiment by Microsoft to foster frank and open discussion with the developer community. You’ll probably learn about...

In addition to the one-day technical overview of BizTalk that I have already mentioned , Microsoft is also sponsoring two 4-day Hands-On Lab sessions for BizTalk Server in the NorthWest. One will be in Portland, Oregon (April 13-16), and one will be in...

The first in an ongoing series (in other words, as soon as I figure out what more rules are, I’ll write more articles in the series). This post was inspired by a comment in Raymond’s blog where a person asked “You mean you think I’m...

I thought I'd put in a plug for one of the funniest mailing lists I've seen in quite a while: This is true . Randy Cassingham, the moderator collects unusual stories from around the world and posts them weekly, with insiteful taglines attached. Valorie...