Hong Gao 's Web Log :

I delivered two talks. Intro to Microsoft Local Search. This was my first time of presenting in Chinese. I am a native Chinese speaker and never doubted for a second about my own capability of speaking Chinese even after nearly 9 years in States. Oh,...

Session Notes Session 1 - B2B Search Engines This session has the B2B search engine representatives who shared briefly how they operate and their values compared to horizontal search engines. Chris Sherman, Associate Editor, SearchEngineWatch...

As some of you may know, I am attending Search Strategy Conference and help MSN Expo Booth. Today is my first day and I had opportunity to catch a couple of sessions I’d like to share with you. Tomorrow, I will help out MSN booth and may not have much...

Here is the first time I could catch up my blog after the move. I will update you with some conferences I attended first. Kelsey Group Conf - March 27, 2006 Summary of day 1 This is my first time to attend Kelsey Group conference. Overall, I...

It has been nearly one year since I moved from Visual Studio team to Windows Live Local Search team. I am having great time. So much we could do in this space. It is simply exciting! Feel free to check out http://local.live.com and send me your feedback...

Today is still the pre-conference day which means I may still have trouble to get in (Microsoft puts the customer first and doesn't want its employees to compete the seats with its customers). I spent some time to help setting up code4fun lounge (my booth...

I am very excited about PDC05. I arrived LA on Sat night. I heard PDC usually generates a lot of excitement in the developer community and I immediately felt the energy of this PDC from a dev lead from MS and an architectur from ISV as soon as landed...

I could not help to share this great news from Brian Keller with you. Microsoft issued a joint press release on 08/31with Valve Software, the makers of the hugely popular Half-Life 2 PC game, in which Valve has endorsed Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition...

Microsoft is now planning the next wave of its development tools and platforms. We acknowledge the impact that runtime deployment has on the ability to develop applications and are interested in hearing more about ISVs needs. For those of you who are...

Please see Aaron's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/08/406671.aspx

Sometimes the VS component may not appear in the add/remove program list, but VS setup thinks it is installed. Below are some steps you could try to perform manual clean up if the uninstall fails either by using the uninstall tool or uninstalling through...

We have VS 2005 uninstall tool here . This tool is to help automating the VS 2005 uninstall instructions here . We also plan to post a troubleshoot tool soon. Please stay tuned and check Aaron's blog or my blog. The diagnostic and uninstall tool offers...

If you decide to manually uninstall without using the tool, be sure to uninstall the .NET Framework 2.0 last. Note: The tool will uninstall ALL pre-release Visual Studio 2005 editions such as Visual Studio Express, Visual Studio Team System, Professional...

We released Beta 2 Visual Studio Express products 6 weeks ago. We have been listening to your feedback through forums, Watson feedback data (you can opt-in such program at the beginning of the setup) etc. We published a tool to help uninstalling Beta...

Will you be interested in the technology that could potentially save $$$ and speed our download, especially for the big files? Please read on if yes. As we notice download is more error prone when there is a download surge. The download center’s...

Beta 2 common install issues and work around can be located at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/vsbeta2installissues/default.aspx For All Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Products 1. What must I do before installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2? ...

Product Name URL VB Express Bootstrapper http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/1/C/E1C75061-A229-49EA-BD0C-D0A7A22E8BA4/vbsetup.exe VC Express Bootstrapper http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/C/3/1C3CCC8E-0FCF-400F-BD5C-56C4D65961E9...

If you have installed previous versions of Visual Studio 2005, such as Beta 1 or Community Technical Preview (CTP) builds of Visual Studio Team Suite, Visual Studio Standard or Visual Studio Professional, then you must un install the pre-Beta2 components...

If you have installed previous versions of Visual Studio 2005, such as Beta 1 or Community Technical Preview (CTP) builds, the following steps must be followed in order to uninstall the pre-Beta 2 components before installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta2...

You MUST visit the official uninstall instructions found at the Express download site before following the following hack. Issue: When Visual Studio Express 2005 Beta products are uninstalled in the order different than the post at http://lab.msdn...