Last week Microsoft released version 2.0 of the Visual Basic (.NET) Power Pack, and is freely downloadable here: Click to go to download . Here's an overview of what's in it: Overview The new Line and Shape controls included in this version of the Visual...

Here's a tidbit I've been meaning to blog about for months... If you install Windows Vista as our guest OS using Virtual PC 2007 (or Virtual Server for that matter), you may initially be disappointed by the fact that you only get the Windows Vista Basic...

Please note that Visual Studio 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and all other products containing MSJVM will be withdrawn from availability on MSDN Subscriber Downloads beginning December 16, 2005. MSDN subscribers interested in this content and eligible...

Our friends at MSDN have been so good as to release a multi-chapter online tutorial on how to build ASP.NET solutions in C#. So, although I would not call this a "Beginners" tutorial, in that you are going to need to understand either some C#, VB.NET...

As a part of the series that I am blogging on the "How To's" of Document Workflow in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), here's a tip on how to send an email from your workflow using SharePoint Designer. This is a long how to post, so my suggestion is to check out...

I created a simple ASMX web service (VS 2K5 Beta 2) that I wanted to access from a WCF client (September CTP). The ASMX web service is running in the ASP.Net development web server, not IIS. I created my simple WCF client by using Add Web Reference. It...

Argh, I just beat my head against a wall trying to do this for the last couple hours:(. After a bit of web searching, I finally found this . So if you try to run the SQL Server 2005 installer to install the full version of SQL Server Management Studio...

We're seeing more and more examples everyday of customers and partners either using or wanting to use Microsoft Office 2003 as a Smart Client for business applications that collect, analyze, manipulate, or present information, that uses the power available...

Windows Server 2003 contains an SMTP service. This is useful if you have applications that need to send e-mail, but don't have access to an e-mail server. For example, in a development or demo environment. It turns out that there is a trick to installing...

This is the free version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) designed to work with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) provides a graphical management tool for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition...

The process of unlocking your Windows Phone 7 device is very straightforward and take a few seconds. However, the information about the process provided at the developer portal is inadequate and even misleading. (Mister Goodcat put up a great post explaining...

The “Atlas” controls don’t get added to the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox by the either the core framework or toolkit installer. Here’s what I did to add them: Create an “Atlas” and “Atlas Control Toolkit” tab on the toolbox by doing a right-click...

I just found this really interesting about how to do something with SharePoint Lists that I didn't think that you could do, without writing some code, and that's to build a "linked list" with two SharePoint List.  Sometimes you get a requirement...

Here's a neat little trick which a lot of people don't seem to know about. The information provided on the Visual Studio 2005 start page comes from the MSDN Visual Studio 2005 RSS feed. It turns out that the RSS source is configurable: - Go to Tools...

As if you needed more reasons to start using SQL Server 2005, we've got another big one! You may have seen links we posted on implementing row level security in SQL Server 2005 in previous posts . Now we are making available a toolkit for easily applying...

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...

The Microsoft SQL Server team has released the next CTP of SQL Server 2008 (February 2008).  Here's the overview of what's in it: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is...

I posted another Channel 9 screencast covering another feature of ASP.NET “Atlas” yesterday morning. However, I didn’t get around to blogging about it. Here’s the description: “Building on concepts from his previous screencast, Microsoft Federal...

Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will...

I've received quite a few requests to update my Virtual Earth + Silverlight and WPF + Virtual Earth + Silverlight samples. Both codebases are old code. Therefore, they no longer work against the current releases of Silverlight (1.0 Beta or 1.1 Alpha)...

UPDATE: Modified second to last paragraph with pointer to http://gallery.live.com . Added a design goal to the list. I was asked by someone in my management chain, let's call them Manager X, to build a sample Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that would...

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I was inspired by WPF/E and "Layering" Content and Using Opacity with a WPFE / Virtual Earth Mashup to try something similar but different. I wanted to be able to show WPFE content (vector graphics, text, and video) on a map when I hover over a pushpin...

The Patterns and Practices group in Microsoft has just released guidance around setting up Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in a Service Oriented Infrastructure. From the article: The Microsoft ESB Guidance is intended for developers working with Microsoft...

At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control.  The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many.  I...