Just had a chance to see an internal demo on the TFS reporting and data mining type features. The walkthrough included using Excel pivot tables and integration into OLAP cubes. It was all hooked into our dogfood TFS system so the data being reported was...

This was released about a year ago, but still some valuable information on ASP.NET perf tuning: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenetchapt17.asp "This chapter provides an iterative process to systematically...

"The Most Critical New Vulnerabilities Discovered or Patched During the First Quarter of 2005" http://www.sans.org/top20/Q1-2005update/

Interesting article up on Code Project: "The principal advantage is that, the user can still register and use the COM server even if he is not an administrator of the machine or does not have write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE . " http://www.codeproject...

In a way that makes me feel like I'm living out a modern day version of Escher's Drawing Hands , we are using the Team System work item tracking feature to build Team System. One thing I'm working on is copying bug lists into email to send out status...

If you have a background in ASP.NET already, this seems to be a decent article describing the internals of ASP.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/Internals.asp

Here's the official place for general suggestions you might have for Microsoft products, features, etc: http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

On an internal email thread, Maxim recommended the following suggestions for printing out the calltree view data of a VSP file: Run vsperfreport /summary:CallTree file.vsp , and then open the .CSV file in Excel Open VSP in VS, copy data from...

This tool promises amazing technicolor syntax highlighting for your blog worthy code snippets : http://aspnetresources.com/tools/codecolor.aspx

When you first start the IDE, it asks you to select a user profile via a dialogue. I usually find myself gravitating towards "C#" or "General" profile, but sometimes I pick a different profile and don't quite find what I'm looking for because the profiles...

I've started a ProfilerWiki as an experiment on Channel9. If want to participate, go for it...

FYI the beta 2 docs are online at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ To jump directly to the section on the profiler, browse to VSTS->Team Developer-> Analyzing Application Performance

ASP.NET profiling in Beta 2 from within the IDE opens up an IE browser window as if you were going to generate load that way. That's fine if the web page triggers a web service or some internal function that you are targeting, where one simple button...

It seems like everybody who's anybody has a forum site these days... I just got a division wide email from Josh Ledgard AKA "community stick-wielder" announcing that MSDN Community Support Forums http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ are now up and running...

Feel the love: http://blogs.msdn.com/ms_joc/articles/406608.aspx

At the time of this writing, Beta 2 is not yet legally available on the outside AFAIK, so I hope I'm not jumping the gun here - but the more eyeballs and user feedback you can help us get, the better. So consider this a work in progress that will get...

This time from the Windows Embedded (XPE/LHE not CE) team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archive/2005/04/07/406412.aspx

I know, I know, this is the canonical starting point topic everyone has already covered with the Whidbey profiler. I just needed something easy to psyche myself up before launching off into the more technical issues we've come across while working on...

OK, so maybe that's a stretch but it's nice to see the pros and cons of this basic idea being discussed more broadly: "Fewer permissions are key to Longhorn security" http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/06/HNfewerpermissions_1.html

Every now and then an email post stands out from the crowd and taxes my vocabulary, such as this simple one liner I received about 2 hours ago: "I just have to ask, should we make sure we don’t frobnicate the bugs?"