The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team has released a set of "Power Tools" for you downloading-pleasure and the best part, is they are free!  Here's what's in the Power Tool Set: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu...

While catching up on 2 months worth of email & blogs I came across this free e-learning. If you go to the SQL Server 2008 - Learning Portal you will find a link to Collection 6187: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 which is a collection of the...

Databinding to KML has to be one of the top requested features I hear when I speak to people about VE. The good news is that I can now tell people YES when they ask about it!!! The VE team released a Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) update to Virtual Earth...

Dan Waters released via his blog ( click here to see his blog and original link) a series of introductory How to Videos for students and enthusiast who want to learn how to program with Robotics Studio. Here's the index and descriptions of the videos...

Offer good while supplies last, so don't dawdle. This is a great resource that explains the design philosophy behind VSTS. http://www.microsoft.com/click/usapo/usdev/meet-milestones/default.mspx The link to the book offer is at the end of the second...

Get it while it's hot and FREE!  The Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team has released a downloadable (PDF) book on how Microsoft recommends (suggest might be a better word) that organizations incrementally adopt Team Foundation Server.   ...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in San Diego, CA on February 6, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Los Angeles, CA on February 6, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Olympia, WA on January 17, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference...

Code Snippets was one of my favorite "new features" in Visual Studio 2005 and has continued to be in Visual Studio 2008.  If you've never used them, what they are (simple explanation) is a macro-capability built into the Visual Studio IDE...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Seattle, WA on January 16, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference...

The MSDN folks have been releasing short "How to" videos over the past few months.  Recently they've released a series of "How Do I" Security videos for Developers of .NET Solutions.  They are nice and short and you can learn...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE January 4 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What’s Up With CardSpace...

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Microsoft has released an "update" to fix several issues ( see list here ), but more importantly it addresses some compatibility issues with Visual Studio 2008.  I found out this release on Richard Berg's blog ( Click here to see his blog...

If you are into building Mashups with Microsoft Popfly, then you'll want to download this free utility.  It allows you to blend Popfly and Visual Studio together in some interesting ways. Here's the download link: Click here to download From the...

If you are new to Visual Studio Development or want to switch from one language to another (i.e., VB.NET to C#, or C# to VB.NET), then I have some videos for you.   Visual C# Videos: Video How to: Create a C# Console Application Video How to: Create...

Presenter:   Robert Shelton, Microsoft Evangelist When: December 14th from 2:00-3:30 PM EST Registration Link: Click here to register Abstract: Join me for a 90 minutes demonstrated (i.e., Very few if any PowerPoint slides) on building Document Workflow...

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for MOSS/SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, as well as the Office Client (which I posted earlier today).  Here's an Overview of the Service Pack as well as a link to find out the issues that have been addressed in...

I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 for (free) download.  It will inevitably be downloaded to your machine automatically, if you have the automatic downloads options turned on, but if you...

OK, so I am not a big fan of the "Web 2.0" moniker myself, but in this case I feel comfortable using it, since in this post I am talking about something that that I think is truly innovative.  Microsoft Popfly is a web "mash-up"...

Robotics has always been an interest of mine, but I wasn't quite sure how to "get started."  Well, the Microsoft Robotics team has made available (for FREE ) a Training Course for Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio version 1.5. ...

If you are like me, you hate hand editing HTML and XML!  But unfortunately, as a .NET Developer you often find yourself doing it, and if for no other reason, you have to do it for parts of the Web.Config and Application.Config files.   ...

For those of you who attended the Developer Dinners in Reston, VA, and Washington, DC, or if you just want to download the presentation and demonstration applications from this event, I have posted the content on my site (link below). You can download...

In today's world where the average machine has at least 2 Processor cores (Dual-Core) and the higher-end workstations are now releasing with 4 Processor cores (Quad-Core), we as .NET Developers have an opportunity to have our applications take advantage...