So today is my last full day in the office this year. I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that you have a great time coding for fun or what ever you want to do. For me, I am off to Whistler for 4 days and then over to my relatives for...

So what is there to shout about as far as adoption is concerned with VS2008? Quite a bit. We work with around 1000 partners during the evangelism of our new tools suite. During the time we do highlight some of the partners that have supported the new...

The web has certainly stepped up security in the pass few years to keep pace with security attacks from hackers and criminals. I was just browsing a site ( last Christmas presents ) which I will not name, but it is really scary to think that they have...

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. This week...

Windows Server 2003 – Customer Ready VPC Last week I shared a VPC image that has been pre-configured with Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2008 (trial), and the .NET Framework 3.5. The unfortunate issue with Vista VPC is that is it will timeout on 12/16....

Microsoft Volta has been creating quite a stir on the community blogs over the last couple of weeks. There has been a lot of discussion about whether this is a direct competitor to GWT. I think that the two are trying to do similar things, but in a...

The Microsoft UK Identity team has been working with a number of companies to help support the adoption a secure federated identity on the Internet. One of the challenges that faces each country is the legitimacy of the identity that someone is providing...

2008 will be a PDC ( Professional Developers Conference ) year. This means that it is going to be pretty exciting time if you are an evangelist at Microsoft, as there are a number of really new things that we are starting to work on that we want to share...

So in the middle of all the Visual Studio 2008 release messaging, another web application development tool released .... This time, not from Microsoft, but the second release of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework was released late last week....

The industry and certainly Microsoft has started to focus on Green issues. In particular our focus has been targeted on power management, which is where I think that we can have the most to impact the environment with software which puts machines in ...

Two more of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit have been published as MSDN virtual labs. This allows you to can get started with VS 2008 in a minute and start exploring the new features. The two new labs focus on the language enhancements...

The ship is nearing the dock!!! Today we shipped RC1 out to the community which is is a major milestone. We might need another RC before we get to RTM but the quality bar for this release has been pretty high. Another nice aspect is that you will be able...

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. This week...

We have seen a lot of interest in the Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Kit over the last couple of weeks which provides lots of cool presentations, demos and samples for Visual Studio 2008 RTM to get you started. However to make it even easier to get...