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64-Bit and Windows 2003/Windows XP To clarify here, there are two different 64-bit hardware architectures so when explaining Microsoft’s support for them it helps to try and summarize this a bit before jumping straight in. I’ll be fairly brief in this...

As promised, here’s a list of resources I mentioned during my Connected Systems MSDN Deep Dive presentation and should help get you started… [UPDATE: Here's a link to Simon's WSE Trace tool I used during the WSE demo] Web Services, Web Services Architecture...

There was an astounding demo during the Mix08 keynote this morning showcasing Silverlight "Deep Zoom" technology. The best part is you can check it out for yourself right now. Head over to the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and you'll have to install...

Two huge announcements I’m finding not a lot of people are aware of with regards to the latest release of Windows Live. 1. Skydrive is now 25GB (used to be 5GB) of free online storage. Not to me they did a great job integrating a nicer photo experience...

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) - MSDN VSTO Dev Centre - VSTO labs , walkthroughs , code samples , and demos Information Bridge Framework (IBF) - MSDN Dev Centre , training , demos , and technical articles SAP Resources www.microsoft-sap.com Microsft...

.NET and J2EE Interop resources I had a great time presenting this topic at several User Groups over the past couple weeks. In particular, it was awesome to have the Vancouver Java Users Group (VanJUG) come out. Thanks for coming guys, hope you enjoyed...

Hey guys, as promised during the Deep Dive presentation, here’s a bunch of resources regarding ASP.NET 2.0 I wanted to pass onto you. Enjoy!! Deep Dive resources (PPT & code) http://msdn.microsoft.ca/DeepDive Ideablade’s website Code Snippets – Access...

Let's face it, there is a LOT of information available out there on SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio Team System, and BizTalk 2006. What I'd like to do, in a series of posts over the next little while, is to take a different approach to discussing...

Huge announcement from John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform. Read the full post here , but I’ve pulled a few key elements from John’s blog post on dev.live.com Contact Data portability, partnership with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged...

Wow. What a day! I’ve attempted to pull together a summary of materials and videos from Day 1. I’m now in the keynote for Day 2 so will have more later on that later.   Fact Sheets – Live Services, Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure, .NET 4.0...

Last week I installed the Search Results Clustering toolbar from sandbox.msn.com and I'm lovin' it! Imagine you do a search, and in addition to the normal results you'd expect, you end up getting a bunch of grouped results on the left. I've found it adds...

YES!! Just received the email I've been wating for the whole week. From Tom Archer's email: "The February CTP for Windows Vista, Windows SDK (and WinFX) and Orcas technologies such as Cider have been released on the Windows Vista and WinFX Dev Centers...

Hello blog, long time no write... For those of you who haven't heard, last year I took on a new role at Microsoft Canada as Strategy Manager for Search and Online Services. It's a very cool job as it spans a LOT of product teams, technologies and business...

Cool! All week I was checking my storage limit wondering when I'd get the magic bump from 2GB to 5GB and it just kicked in! Not that I actually found I needed 5GB of storage, but hey, I'm happy to have it :-) If you're looking for more info on this, have...

Joshua pulled together a nice list of all the Mix08 software. He's actually got another good Mix08 roundup post as well. Here's the list: Expression Studio Beta ( download ) The second release of Expression Studio adds a wealth of new features including...

Here’s a snippet from the Day 2 keynote at PDC showing Office 14 Web Applications:

For those of you that attended the Canadian Strategic Architect forum a couple of weeks ago, Live Mesh is what I would have loved to be able to speak with you about during my talk on Windows Live Platform. Unfortunately the timing was two weeks off for...

Wow... Rick's got an incredibly interesting post regarding Albert Lai's comments in a recent Canadian Business magazine article " The Venture Gap ". So what is it in the article that turns Rick into "Cranky Rick"? Albert's comment...

http://www.microsoft.com/azure   You are also able to register to try the Community Technology Preview.   Here’s a copy paste from the “What is Windows Azure?” section on the www.microsoft.com/azure   What is the Azure Services Platform...

Business Intelligence   Folks, if you really want to seize an opportunity to drive some demand for your products you have to take a serious look at embedding some Business Intelligence into your product.  Don't believe me? Have a look at this Gartner...

I put together some SQL 2005 resources for one of my ISV's so thought I'd share with you... Most of the questions I get are from people wanting more info on Reporting Services so I've highlighted that below. Upcoming Webcasts Lots of upcoming webcasts...

I've been digging into ASP.NET 2.0 lately so thought I'd share some good webcasts and whitepapers I've found along the way... Planning for Whidbey webcast Here’s a fantastic webcast by Stefan Schackow discussing “planning for Whidbey”. It was great as...

I had a great time last night delivering a mobility talk to the Vancouver .NET User Groups. Thanks for coming everyone and congrat's to the lucky winners of our prize draws!! If you didn't win something this time, keep coming as we'll be giving away more...

It's that time o' year again! Halloween? nah fo'get halloween, I'm talkin' about the oh so popular MSDN Deep Dives!! The theme this time is on Connected Systems which is very cool as this is where my main interests are. The idea behind the format of this...

Got a copy of Simon Guest's “ Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit ” the other day. Simon defintitely did an outstanding job on this book. You can approach it from either a java perspective having to interop with .NET or from a...