Robert Burke's MSDN Weblog

I'm delighted to inform you that Michael Rys is coming to Ireland next week. He's a Program Manager for SQL Server's Query Technologies (SQL and XQuery). He was Program Manager for many of the XML features in SQL 2000 and 2005 as well. On Wednesday...

If you're into WinFX, then you've heard by now that the February CTP (Community Tech Preview) is out and about. Mike Swanson, among many others, provided the full list of links you'll need . Mike had mentioned that the there are performance improvements...

.NET offers so many choices for your presentation layer. Windows Forms is mature, reliable, tried and true. You can use it to build smart clients like Outlook or Word. ASP.NET gives you reach, and makes it easy to write rich, data-driven web sites...

The Live Messenger Beta asked me last night if I wanted to update to a new version. I'm glad I did!! A few weeks ago I sent the Messenger team some feedback based on the experiences of my friends and family who are using the beta. My youngest sister...