Want to know how Microsoft handles branching and merging? Then take a look at this great guide for doing branching and merging with TFS available on Codeplex. In particular, read the Feature Crews: How Microsoft Does It section which discusses the...

We in the Developer & Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland are about to kick off our early adopter program for ISVs (the successor to the Ascend / Touchdown programs - see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/isv/bb190411.aspx - that some of you may have...

Considering our upcoming security event for developers, this is a very timely Computer World article not least because it highlights the contribution of the SDL in reducing vulnerability counts in Microsoft products: "The biggest contribution in the...

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/ for a new video that provides a high level overview of what's in SQL Server 2008. Quite an easy way to learn about the platform for the next generation of data-driven applications!

Martha and I will be making our first trip to Cork on Monday 24th September for a talk on Visual Studio 2008 (including demo)...more details below. If you're in the Cork area hope to see you there! MTUG Cork Presents : Visual Studio 2008 When: Monday...

This is pretty cool: http://www.allblacks.com/gadget/default.htm Remains to be seen whether Ireland end up in the vs. column on October 7th...should we read something into the fact that the QF, SF and Final are pencilled in already (not that I'm...

This is a simple example of how to ensure that an (animated) ad created with Silverlight (in this case an ad for my blog :-)) can remain always visible regardless of whether your user scrolls down or not - in this case I anchored the ad to the top left...

This has the makings of a great event, with yours truly closing out the day with a session on the Security Development LifeCycle as used in Microsoft. Full event details » Who should attend: Developer, CTO, Head of Development, TDM, Security TDM...

I'm talking to a lot of companies about Team System at the moment, both existing users and potential users - in both cases I try to get the message across that Team System will help reduce the burden on individuals to support a given process, be it CMMI...

So far for me LINQ to SQL has been perfectly adequate and has just worked without any intervention needed.However, if you want to get more control than LINQ to SQL gives you then you might want to take a look at LINQ to Entities. I've yet to delve...

Interested in Sharepoint capacity planning? Check out the Sharepoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool on CodePlex . It's a command line exe, with some test scripts which you can use in conjunction with Visual Studio Test Edition to help stress test your...

Just added details of the Innovate On program to the Microsoft Ireland ISV Resources page. Innovate On provides a set of product portals where you can find tools and technologies to develop your products more quickly. For example, if you want to ensure...

So I use VPCs quite a lot and today I decided that I would test drive the upgrade experience from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 beta 2. I have VPC that's fully tooled-up for VSTS 2005 with some existing team projects, code in source control and what have you....

Want to create a custom search engine? It's pretty easy! All you need to do is to create a Live search macro for any topic, and a home page is automatically created for your macro so that you can bookmark it / share it etc - you just use the wizard and...

There is such a role in Microsoft as "ISV Developer Evangelist", and while that's not my official title a large portion of my job is focused on working with ISVs to make the best use of Microsoft technologies and to some extent to help them navigate both...