ESE API at MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684493.aspx New features in ESE for Vista/Server 2008: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964797.aspx ESE overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998171.aspx Wikipedia...

A good overview of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380177.aspx

Mobileware.net has released a contacts viewer for MCE: http://mobilewares.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!78533A1A2E078194!163.entry Some screen shots: http://www.mobilewares.net/mce/bscscreens.htm

Several 2007 Microsoft Office applications provide an API that lets a mail client interface with 2007 Office applications when the API is implemented by the mail client. This API provides an integrated experience for sending a copy of a 2007 Office document...

Windows Mail video link: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=116711

Windows Vista includes significant changes to the Windows Address Book. The WAB MAPI APIs are still supported: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/WinContacts/wincontacts/wc_entry_point.asp And there are new...

In a project planning meeting recently, I heard a coworker say "Double Buffer". I figured that he meant a performance technique for animation or networking: http://www.codeproject.com/java/javadoublebuffer.asp or like: http://www.usenix.org/publications...

For my own amusement, I decided to wrap the NT Defrag APIs in C#. It isn't great, but... I'll give it the classic dev guarantee of "it works on my machine". http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/top20.htm The MSDN documentation uses lots of very scary...

I just recently re-discovered the NT file defrag APIs... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/defragmenting_files.asp And I found a great defragmenter... http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag

One of the PMs on the team has put together a wiki on Channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.LonghornCommunications

... all of your personal and business communications - from email and instant messages to phone calls and faxes - will reside in a single central location http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.print&news=3939 Apparently from a central...

From: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116005,00.asp Future OS will track all your contacts regardless of the type of communication Chief among Longhorn's capabilities is a communications history from which you can manage everything, says...

The communication history team build a small sample RSS application for the WinHec build. For each entry in the RSS feed the sample creates a Message WinFS item that appears in communication history. http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/sampledocs...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/may04/05-03WinHec.asp In addition to the hardware, the software was integrated with the process so that users could get rich caller information such as their communications history with the caller (for...

The dev manager on my team did a presentation at WinHec today. The presentation covered some of the work that we are doing around the communications experience in Longhorn. In the Q&A there were some good questions asked about Communication History...

From: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1581874,00.asp The intersection of telephony and PCs. At last year's WinHEC, the "Athens" communications PC prototype, co-developed by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, stole the show. This year...

The IIS lessons learned webcast was recorded - and you can play it back below with voice... http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032251865&Culture=en-US

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/SecurityBriefs/default.aspx

It looks like this talk will be a GREAT discussion about the evolution and limitations of IIS from the perspective of the IIS team. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032243866&Culture=en-US From the site: Description...

OE has quite a bit of functionality that is documented. This includes things like a great mime parser... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/outlookexpress/oe/oe_entry.asp

Log Parser is a great tool to sift through IIS web logs (or most any other structured data) for information. Log Parser is freely downloadable online from www.microsoft.com/download (search for "IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools" for Log Parser 2.1, and search...

I try to scan the WSJ every day. It helps me keep in touch with the world outside of technology. Today there was a good article about advertisements in blogs - and it had the word: bloggerpreneurs. What a cool word. Sorry about the big ugly URL. Ugh...

Attachment execute service (AES) is an attachment security platform enhancement introduced for Windows XP Service Pack 2. AES provides a framework that allows both Microsoft and external (third party) developers to have the same security services available...

Part of what makes working at microsoft great is the ability to switch teams and roles - all without uprooting your life. Fairly recently, I made the switch to the 'dark side' of Program Management from Software Design. I now work on a part of Windows...

I was a developer on the IIS 6 team ( Windows Server 2003 ). I am no longer on the IIS team, but I try to pay attention to what they are doing. The below webcast on the 15th looks like a great resource for understanding the evolution of IIS reliability...