Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has recently had a refresh to its performance tools. You can read more about it on the What's New for Performance Profiling Tools for WPF post. The suite of tools includes a bunch of very interesting tools, one...

So, if you follow the ' Ask the Performance Team ' blog, you've probably seen the intro and troubleshooting tips for Side-by-side . There is a lot more information about this on MSDN , which is very useful (I should probably say necessary ) to do correct...

So, let's say there's an application that you're running that's using MSXML, but you're not sure which version it's using. You can of course fire a debugger, attach to the process, and take a look at the loaded modules, but that's a bit overkill for something...

MSDN has a "light" version which loads up the pages faster (albeit with less functionality). You can read about it here . I very, very much like it, although depending on where I am in the topic tree, sometimes I prefer to have the TOC on the side. ...

If you're following the PDC announcements, new, good things are coming for developers and business... MSDN is already showing some topics to get you started. Azure Services Platform . Includes Windows Azure SDK, Live Services SDK, Microsoft .NET Services...

In case you've missed it, the Astoria team has a post that includes a video starring Pablo and goes over some of the thinking around what it might mean to offline-enable an ADO.NET Data Service, what it might look like, and what are some of the possibilities...

I am certain you ardently desire to keep up to date on everything Astoria (I mean, ADO.NET Data Services), so if you're going to the PDC, the sessions you'll want to go are listed here , along with a video showing Pablo and Mike plugging them. I especially...

I find it interesting that even after working on .NET code for years, I still keep evolving my usage of the platform and style. Today's post is an example of such a thing. Hopefully you already know about the Debug.Assert API. This allows you to make...

There's a great explanation about how Windows handles different kinds of releases and in this Windows Updates and Hotfixes post . I find this interesting because there are many obvious and non-obvious trade-offs that go into designing the servicing...

MSXML 6 is our recommended version of MSXML for various reasons, one of which is that is has a number of security enhancements, as mentioned here . An example is a more consistent 'secure by default' policy, which for example locks down the surface area...

As announced in the Data Platform Insider , the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack has been released. This includes SQLXML 4.0 SP1, which provides support for the new date/time data types - some of the work that my team has been doing lately, all in the spirit...

In case you haven't visited lately, www.live.com has been doing for a while this thing where each day they'll have a different background picture, usually a gorgeous photo, and then when you hover over the picture with your mouse different areas will...

Of course this is hardly news by now, but I wanted to take the opportunity to add my two cents on how some things fit together. To begin with, you'll find everything you need to get started from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/developers...

It's almost embarrassing to have a blog post this short, but this is too good to pass up. Very bookmark-worthy! http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/10/01/resource-guide-to-free-microsoft-software-and-online-services.aspx Enjoy!