Yes, the BBC Micro is 30! . Great article about the history of it here . The “model B” was the first computer I ever owned. The first computer I used was a Commodore Pet (both the 8Kb and the incredibly powerful 32Kb edition) so I was hooked on 6502 machine...

I recently attended an offsite meeting in Munich for our Microsoft EMEA IIS/ASP.NET and web developer support team. It’s the first time we’ve had the chance to get together in one place for several years (even though we work together everyday!) and it...

I recently had reason to put together a list of general resources available from Microsoft aimed at software developers. I know there are many more out there but this was intended as a list of high level resources to get people started. If you have other...

A new preview version of the WebPI command line tool (WebPIcmd.exe) has been released: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1072/web-platform-installer-v4-command-line-webpicmdexe-preview-release/ An interesting new feature if offline mode, allowing the use...

I recently finished working on a support case where the customer was hitting the same issue as this one: 2484841 FIX: A .NET Framework 4.0-based WPF application may stop responding if you right-click a control to open a pop-up control but for Microsoft...

My colleague Emmanuel has published a great new blogs post on troubleshooting 403.7 “Client Certificate Required errors”. Read all about it here. HTH Doug

The .NET Framework team are working on .NET 4.5 and are inviting people to start testing their existing applications for compatibility against it (particularly as it is an in place update to 4.0): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2011/09/26/compatibility...