I’ve recently read this article and it really resonated with me as I have spent the best part of the last 17 years working in a cube farm. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all Here...

Last week I was on an Asp.Net MVC and HTML 5 training course. Sometimes I find it really useful to take a step back (out of the debugger) and look at how people are developing modern Web applications on the Microsoft Web Platform today. I’ve compiled...

I’ve come across this in a number of posts from my colleagues in  DPE. Last night and I went to http://www.cuttherope.ie and played this game in the browser. From an engineering point of view the interesting content is at http://www.cuttherope.ie...

I wrote an article for the MSDN UK Flash newsletter which is now published here. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2011/05/05/msdn-flash-feature-article-iis-7-and-web-application-management-overview.aspx   Have a read and let me know what you...

I’ve seen this issue a number of times on customer systems so I thought I would blog about it.   When restoring existing Commerce Server 2009 or 2007  resource databases onto a new SQL Server you may see errors when connecting to the site. These...

I’ve not posted for a while as I’ve been working on customer issues and away on some business trips. So I thought I would start posting again by posting the Commerce Server 2009 documentation in HTML Help format. As you know the Commerce Server 2007...

Hi, Every now and then instead of an in-depth post I might post some links which I’ve shared with my team during the week or that has been sent to me. So here goes. 1) Robert McMurrary has a very good post on using the FTP 7.5 Extensibility to Dynamically...

I worked on an issue recently with a customer that was very interesting. They were using Silverlight 2.0 and this issue does not reproduce in Silverlight 3. They were using the DatePicker Control for their project and noticed that the Watermark “enter...

As Commerce Server 2009 is now out and available I thought it would be a nice idea to do a post on “Where Can I learn more about Commerce Server 2009?”. The first place to keep in your list would be the documentation that is available here. Commerce Server...

Just as note to myself here are the Silverlight Version numbers. Release Version Release Date 1.0 RTW 1.0.20816 September 4th 2007 1.0 GDR 1.0.2115.0 November 20th 2007 1.0 GDR 1.0.30109.00 January 15th 2008 1.0 GDR 1.0.30401.00 April 4th 2008 1.0 GDR...

Hello, Commerce Server 2009 is now available for MSDN Subscribers. This is discussed further at this post . There are a number of resources also detailed at the link above and these include the following. Readme and Installation Guide. The Default Site...

After my extended break I’ve been catching up on my blog reading and I’ve come across some interesting posts which I’d like to share with you. Commerce Posts. Ryan Donovan has completed an interesting series on the Architecture behind Commerce 2007. He...

I’ve been working with this a lot recently and thought I’d share some of what I found with you. You'll see that I'll refer a lot to Robert McMurray's post as he is the Program Manager for this feature in the IIS product team. First of all you can download...

This is a follow on from my last post on the Microsoft Web Platform Installer . If you haven’t read that post then go ahead and read it and I’ll wait here. Welcome back! Once again I am using my Hyper-V Windows 2008 64 Bit image. Then I go to http://www...

You may have heard about the new tools available for getting up and running quickly on IIS 7 on Windows 2008. Bill Staples talks about this here . So I thought I’d try these tools out and see how my experience goes. So first I set up a Windows Server...

The ReMix UK 2008 videos are up on the site for you to review at your leisure. If you go to the agenda page here then you will be able to click and download the presentation slides or watch the session. Here’s what I saw while I was there. Day 1 The Keynote...

I thought I'd add a little post about working in Support at Microsoft and how you can find out some more information about this kind of career. I've worked in support for Microsoft products for the last 13 years and the last 11 of these years has been...

The Remix UK 2008 conference was held in Brighton on the 18th and 19th of September and I was lucky enough to attend. It was described on the web site as " A 48 hr conversation all about the ‘Next Web’, what it means today and the potential impact of...

I'm looking forward to attending Remix UK this week. Each delegate will receive a Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription worth over £650 which contains;  Expression® Studio (Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Encoder, Expression Blend...

One of the questions I am commonly asked is "Where can I learn more about Commerce Server?". I mentioned this topic briefly on my post Starting to look at Commerce Server . So if you're new to Commerce Server where can you start? The first place...

I was very happy to come across the Microspotting web site. It's something that I wouldn't normally come across as it's on it's own site and so you can't see in the normal MSDN\Technet\IIS.Net feeds which is where I spend most of my time when I am reading...

Hello, as I previously mentioned Commerce Server is one of the products that I support here at Microsoft and it's a product that I really enjoy supporting. The latest version is Commerce Server 2007 and here's what the main Web Site has to say about it...

I've just finished writing up an e-mail for some new people in my team about starting Debugging and the use of the WinDBG tool. So I thought I would share this out here as well. I've got some great colleagues in my extended European team and also my US...

Here's some more information on troubleshooting a High CPU Issue. I'm using a Test Scenario which means that my CPU goes high whenever I browse to the default.htm with a Query String of sf=cpu1_v1. If you go back to Part 1 then you'll understand why I...

The official announcement is over at MSDN Forums Commerce 2007 SP2 Announcement . Here are the links for you if you'd like to download it. Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack 2 – Standard Edition Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack 2 – Enterprise...