There's a ton of great new features in VS 2008, for Web development, OBAs, data access, devices and so on, all of which will help to make developers more productive - I've blogged about some of them already and will do more in the future, but today when...

This is an interesting feature I came across as a result of a question in a meeting last week : the gist of the question was can you simulate different types of networks as part of a Load Test. I knew you could adjust the Browser Mix and things like how...

Want to know what's going to be in Vista SP1? Have a read of the Windows Vista SP1 White Paper ...The SP1 beta will be available in the next few weeks . Did you know that by July 2007 Vista supported nearly 2.2 million devices? Beyond application and...

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As you can probably tell from the title of my last few posts I've been doing some work with LINQ over the last few days. Your life will be a lot easier if you learn about some new features in C# 3.0 before getting into it, so here are some resources I...

I recently recorded a screencast on Javascript debugging (haven't put it up yet, watch this space) but one of the things that I covered was debug visualizers, which are a great alternative to the text-only property-name/value way of viewing state when...

I just came across AJAXView which is a dev tool from Microsoft Research aimed at giving developers visibility into how their web apps perform in end-user's browsers. The important thing to note is that you do not need to modify the web-app code or...

I've been meaning to dig into LINQ performance for some time (actually since it came up during one of my interviews for this job), so I was interested to read a sequence of posts from some of the C# team, tracing the performance of LINQ to SQL from the...

Yesterday I wrote about why I tend to use VPCs at the moment for demos. In a similar vein, Microsoft Virtual Labs provides you with an online virtual environment to try out technologies such as WPF/WCF/WF , Team System or even Expression . You get a downloadable...

Recently I was asked how Infragistics controls would play with VS 2008 - the answer is very well , as they are developing for Silverlight, as well as working on a new set of server controls which will work on ASP.NET 2.0 as well as ASP.NET 3.5, codenamed...

I'm doing a lot of demos at the moment and most of the time I'm using VPCs since I can tee things up beforehand, do my demo and discard any changes at the end. Another advantage of this situation is that I can try out combinations of betas / CTPs quickly...

In my last post I blogged about Tafiti , a Silverlight interface to Live Search. Meanwhile, "traditional" Live Search has a particularly nice UI IMHO. For an example, follow this link: Leonardo DaVinci . The experience is really nice, you can zoom-in...

Earlier Today Microsoft launched Tafiti (which means do "do research" in Swahili) which shows how Web applications such as search can be brought to the next level using Silverlight. Tafiti is essentially a Silverlight interface to Live Search and helps...

On August 17, 1982, Philips manufactured the world's first compact disc, so it's 25 today . For those of you who think the world was in black and white back then too, here's some trivia to educate you ;-) The CD was jointly developed by Philips...

Microsoft has announced a new Open Source At Microsoft site to put the spotlight on its strategy for the Open Source development methodology. The aim is that it serves as a gateway for info about open source engagements and activities across Microsoft...

Just a link post really, but there are lots of VSTS case studies available at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/search.aspx?ProTaxID=2671 . That link will return you the full list, but you can try Microsoft Case Studies to filter based on Microsoft...

Ok, in no particular order, here are 5 features in VS 2008 which are going to save me some time: Extender Wizard This is convenient for use with the AJAX Control Toolkit: to add an extender to a given control, just click the to show the popup...

Technorati Tags: .NET , Microsoft , Developer , DLR , Dynamic Language Runtime , IronRuby , IronPython , Silverlight , ASP.NET Futures If you download the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and look closely at the contents of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight...

In a previous post I covered Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. As of 11th August 2007 you can download DB Pro Power Tools from here . Some of these are really handy, e.g. Static Code Analysis - like an FxCop for T-SQL, and wildcard...

I spent about 5 years working in Java, where I used NetBeans, followed by IntelliJ and ended up with Eclipse (after a job change), so I was interested to read a recent article on TheServerSide.COM about an event run by the Cologne JUG where evangelists...

A company called Readify have come up with a hosted solution for Team Foundation Server (is this Sourcecode-as-a-Service? Sorry, lame joke). I think this was a logical space for someone to move into given Team Foundation Server's abilities, web service...

Brian Harry has posted what he believes to be the final feature list for TFS 2008. A few interesting ones: Support for Windows Server 2008 Support for SQL Server 2008 Support for HTTPS communication to the TFS server Simpler installation...

Previously I highlighted the beta 1 of this guide, well now the final version has been released and is available for download at http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide In addition to the Parts I-VIII in the beta it also includes a section on Visual Studio...

So a few weeks ago I and most of the rest of the (Irish) Developer and Platform Group were in Orlando for a conference. We had an event to go to one evening after dinner so the five of us loaded into a cab...only to realise the exact address was umm so...

Team Edition for Database Professionals (or DB Pro for short) has two main goals: Manage changes to the DB Mitigate the risk of making those changes To achieve #1, DB Pro extends the same ALM capabilities to database professionals that software...