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Jason Olson links up with Andrew Hall and Brad Sullivan as part of the Channel9 10-4 show to take a look at some new enhancements and improvements made to the debugger and debugging experience in Visual Studio 2010. Areas include Sticky Data Tips Adding...

Jason just announced the Beta 2 version of DPE’s Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit is now live (you can find it at http://tinyurl.com/Beta2Training ). A training kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you...

Brian in the team walks everyone through downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2. This is episode 33 of the 10-4 show on Channel9 . This video references several important URL...

  Today we are releasing VS2010 Beta 2 to all MSDN subscribers with general availability on the web to follow on Wednesday. Beta 2 has a huge focus on increased stability, improve performance, and meeting many of the customers scenarios which they...

We have just released a significant update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6).  This provides a set of new capabilities to the client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC projects.  The major...

  If you want to get trained on how to support, deploy and develop for Windows HPC Server and you are based in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, or Mexico, please go to the following link  

The Trustworthy Computing security response communications team has just released this months Security Bulletin to TechNet EDGE This Bulletin contains details about the 13 released bulletins, 8 being critical and 5 being important, plus other advisories...

We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform.  This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging...

Nov 17th seemed to be a long way away…then... Now we are into October and in practically 5 weeks we will be off to the races!! There are lots of exciting things that I can’t talk about obviously, but there are a lot of things that I can start to share...

Both articles point to an interview which Larry Ellison had with Ed Zander, who was once president and COO of Sun. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10365128-16.html http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2009/09/why-larry-ellison-will-not...

Last week we announced a number of Web Application Toolkits on the Web. The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all...

For all the people that are compelled to get an arcade machine installed in their house, here is another option by using Windows 7 to power it. Andrew Dugdell is best known for his technical talks, but in this interview on EDGE , he talks about another...

Today, we announced the RTM of Web PI (Platform Installer) and Web App Gallery. We also introduced a new offering called WebsiteSpark . To introduce this, Scott Guthrie, VP of the .NET platform and web technologies talks about these on the home page of...

On the Monday (16th Nov) pre-conference day before the PDC, there is a free Windows 7 bootcamp being held at the PDC conference center. Key Windows 7 engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan will provide a deep dive into building...

In Vista, I used to use Windows Defender to change ( remove/disable ) some of the User Desktop services which would startup when I logged in. For example, on some desktops I wanted to stop Windows Live Messenger or other applications which checked for...

Overnight it looks like there are a whole load more sessions which have appeared on the PDC site, including a number of sessions for Windows Azure. In particular, these ones caught my attention Storing and Manipulating Blobs and Files with Windows Azure...

A number of new storage features for blobs has been pushed to the cloud in the latest July SDK.  Probably the most exciting feature is the ‘ Shared Access Signature ’ (aka leased blobs).  This feature allows you to generate one-time, temporally...

  New Feature:  Multi-Role Support With the July SDK update, the concept of multiple roles has been added.  This is visualized in Visual Studio through Wizards or through configuration. You can use the multi-role support to break out logically...

This is a quick overview on TechNet EDGE of the security bulletins released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in August 2009. This month, we released nine security bulletins. Five of those are rated Critical and four have an aggregate severity...

There was an interesting article last week where the Obama administration was considering NASA as a prototype for its outsource plans and support for the cloud. It is a good read, but in the end, it highlights the confusion in the industry around cloud...

Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows 7 by providing additional compatibility for their older productivity applications. The newly updated Windows XP Mode now works with...

Last night we launched the PDC09 registration site, complete with some of the first sessions which will be presented . Here are some of the interesting one for me. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes - Mark Russinovich Petabytes...

So you are hearing that Windows 7 is a great product, you have tested it and this has been confirmed by your own tests, but now you need to get to the business end of your job. You need to deploy this on 1000’s of desktops in your company. How do you...

In the latest episode of the Visual Studio 10-4 show, Jason takes a look at a new library in .NET Framework 4 and how it helps developers write applications that are more extensible and easier to maintain than before.     The Managed Extensibility...

On TechNet EDGE there is a quick video of the security bulletin(s) released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in July 2009.   For more details go here. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security Other resources mentioned in the video...