This wonderful video, a visual representation of Web 2.0, was created by Professor Michael Wesch and his ethnography students at Kansas State University. Visit the Digital Ethnography website, a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty...

Developer Division's Sr. Architect / Performance Rockstar Rico Mariani is featured on Channel 9’s Behind the Code (if you haven't watched this fun series be sure to check it out). Rico's been at Microsoft for 18 years and has been a prolific writer in...

Not all of the Windows SDK samples with Visual C++ 2005 project files have configurations to build for X64. But you can work around this. Load the sample in Visual C++ 2005 (Express or non-Express version) and update Configuration Manager under Project...

The Windows SDK includes samples that require ATL or MFC headers to build, but the SDK does not come with the ATL or MFC headers, libraries, or runtimes. These samples, which are listed in the SDK Release Notes, will only build if you have the non-Express...

LUA Buglight™ is a tool to help both developers and IT Pros (sysadmins) identify the specific causes of admin-permissions issues (a.k.a., “LUA bugs”) in desktop applications running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. Once the specific...

FxCop has been available in the Windows SDK, but you can download the tool and accompanying SDK directly to ensure that you are always getting the most up-to-date version. FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance...

If you haven't read Scott Guthrie's post, First Look at Orcas then you're missing a treat. No blog post has ever had me so excited about an upcoming product. Plenty of awesome screenshots. And Scott only covers a few of the features in this post; I can...

VentureOne is a 3-wheel, tilting, plug-in Hybrid vehicle that carries two passengers over 100 mph. We'll have to wait till 2008 but it will be worth it. With Dynamic Vehicle Control tilting technology from Dutch-based Carver Engineering, the body of the...

Google's GMail is really, really, really available to everyone now. Last week they said they were but they really weren't. Now they really are. Maybe. Anyway, they're advertising on YouTube so they must be serious. The homemade looking ads are pretty...

Wikia (the for-profit alter ego of Wikipedia – the collection of communities with websites that you can edit) just launched three for-profit sites: an entertainment community , a politics community and a local community . All sites allow users to blog...

Some great setup blogs from folks around Developer Division: Karen Albrecht , Visual Studio Steve Bone , Windows Installer Robert Flaming , Windows Installer Team Hong Gao , Visual Studio Pete Giffin , Visual Studio Bret Grinslade ,...

Sure do. This Mashable headline caught my eye cause I'm tired of flagging inappropriate content on photo sharing sites in hopes of keeping them clean for my kids. But YouTube's new beta venture eroticr seems to be doing porn right, with a dedicated site...

Ron Cundiff pulled together an awesome list of resources for .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Vista Development . And if you're more of an Office developer, check out his newest resource list for Office 2007 . Thanks, Ron!

Windows PowerShell was available in pre-releases of the Windows SDK, but is not included in the RTM version of the Windows Vista SDK. Now you can download Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista or Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Vista X64 directly. Many...

You might find that building Windows SDK samples that use DirectX fails. Some header files (including d3dtypes.h, d3drmdef.h and d3d.h) rely on files installed with the DirectX SDK. To build with these files, the DirectX SDK must be installed. A new DirectX...

Are you building apps for Vista yet or messing around with the great selection of new samples in the SDK ? Just a reminder for those using the SDK with Visual Studio... In order to use Windows SDK headers, libraries, and tools within Visual Studio 2005...

Microsoft has raised charges substantially to retail customers for tech support for Vista and Office 2007, and reduced help offered to users. As of Jan. 30, customers who buy full retail copies of Vista and Office 2007 will get unlimited calls, e-mails...

Technology legend Jim Gray is missing. His 40' sailboat disappeared near the Farallon Islands in California in clear weather and calm seas. You can help in the search using new technology developed by those that know and love him. Techies at Amazon.com...

Lots of people know about the PSDK, but I sometimes get blank looks when I say I work on the Windows SDK . Yeah, we used to be the PSDK, but times and the PSDK have changed and we've been re-branded. The Windows SDK provides all of the necessary headers...

Apple’s warning to iTunes users to wait for Apple to issue a patch before making the switch to Vista was not well received by some users. They’ve released the iTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0 to help those who are running into problems playing music and...

Y2K mania all over again? No stories of people stocking up their bomb shelters yet, but things could get a little interesting during the “extended DST periods” in March and November thanks to the Energy Policy Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 2005....

Top rocker Sunidhi Chauhan is belting out the " Wow is Now " song for the big Vista launch in India, where Windows SDK developers like Kirti Chawla have been burning the midnight oil creating new Vista apps since the Windows Vista SDK went live on November...