The Microsoft Federal Architect Forum is scheduled to take place Wednesday, May 10 and Thursday May 11, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA. The Federal Architect Forum is our team's annual gathering of Architects and Technology Officers...

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. I knew that. I learned this lesson early in life just after picking myself up off the floor. I had just finished informing my mother how much I knew about life, and it...

The documents are Team Foundation Server Upgrade Types , How to: Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Trial Edition , and How to: Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition . Remember that Team Foundation Server (TFS) will be available for...

Keith just blogged about IE7 Readiness Toolkit here . You can now download the full IE7 Beta 2 (not the beta 2 preview) from the IE site . Make sure you review the beta 2 checklist here before installing. We will be providing support of IE7 Beta 2. Find...

Folks, the IE 7 Readiness Toolkit is...ready! The Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit provides an easy way for any audience that is involved in the development, test, deployment or support of web sites, extensions, and/or applications to prepare...

As promised, here's the Part II screencast . In this one I build the same solution using ASP.NET Atlas. I show you how ASP.NET Atlas abstracts the complexities of AJAX programming and provides a new set of tools to your developer toolbox to build richer...

So in my haste to share this little gem here I forgot to mention some of the quirks that aren't obvious when you try to do this with JavaScript in an .aspx file. I am a big fan of not explaining something someone else has already explained. You can learn...

Why should you upgrade to Visual Studio 2005? Check out this interactive website on 400+ product improvements in Visual Studio 2005. http://www.400plusdifferences.com/ -- Jeff O Technorati Tags: Microsoft , .NET , Team Foundation Server , VSTS...

"You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft", Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn BTW, Visual Studio Express editions are free, too. Check this out while you drift all lazy like down the Big Muddy, fishin' for bullheads with a bent pin, WiFi...

Join us for a Developer Dinner in Reston , VA on Tuesday, April 25 th from 6:00-8:00P Here’s the registration link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032294576 Register quickly, as we have limited...

This just in from our Federal Security Program Manager Bill Billings: We recently posted new information on Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) API within MSDN. CNG is the long-term replacement for the CryptoAPI and is designed to be extensible...

Just caught wind of this on Euan Garden's blog . Euan talks about what's new here . Download available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb6c71ea-d649-47ff-9176-e7cac58fd4bc&DisplayLang=en -Marc

Just when you thought that we didn't care for C++ devs anymore. Rob Caron does a fantastic job pulling together a plethora, a gaggle, a cocophony even (Snaggle Puss inflection if you please) of resources for C++ developers using Visual Studio Team System...

I just noticed the latest announcement and figured I would share. Here are the highlights: Title – Best Practices for Securing and Auditing SQL Server 2005 http://www.novasql.com/presentations.htm Speaker – Jeremy Gaige, Systems Engineer...

Well, if you are like me, you do! When building web applications and switching between code and UI text, you may occasionally find a spelling mistake in the final product UI. Typically, I like to consider my end-users as my personal built-in spell checker;...

Team System Developer & Test SKUs Public Chat Join the Team System Developer & Test product teams to discuss the Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). They have questions for you...

I am always delighted when sharing little nuggets of knowledge proves to have impact on customers. I don't know how many times I have seen a surprised smile on a web developers face when I mention that you can debug JavaScript in Visual Studio 2005. You...

That's right. Scott Guthrie just blogged it here . You get to see exactly how the product team wrote the providers that ship with ASP.NET 2.0. So if you want to build your own providers to plug in, much of the work is done for you. In many scenarios,...

Ah, we live in an industry of over used buzzwords. The one I seem to be hearing alot is "mashup." What the heck is this thing? Wikipedia says "A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an...

Volume License Customers If you have any of the following licenses under a Microsoft Volume License enrollment—you qualify for our special Team Suite Step Up promotional pricing that runs through June 30th 2006: » Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition...

I just saw this announcement. If you have been working with Atlas, you've probably said to yourself "It would be nice if they shipped a [insert need here] control with Atlas." Enter the toolkit... The "Atlas" Control Toolkit is a set of nine great...

Marc blogged about this last week ( here ), but I wanted to add a little more detail to what he said and why it's a "big deal" for you, if you are migrating ASP.NET Web Applications. Among other things this add-in has templates that will make migrating...

Before I joined the Federal D&PE team as a Developer Evangelist, I was a BizTalk and SQL Server Technology Specialist. Therefore, any time I see something about BizTalk or SQL that gets me excited I try to blog it. That is, of course, if David doesn...

Version 1.0 of Teamprise just released. The Teamprise client allows you to access Team Foundation Server from other platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X, and from within the Eclipse IDE. http://www.teamprise.com/ -- Jeff O

If you aren't already aware, Team Foundation Server (TFS) released to manufacturing earlier this month. If you want a nice PDF on Team Foundation Server, I've put one here on our Federal Developer website: http://www.federaldeveloper.com/Shared%20Documents...