I'm sure most blog-readers are now familiar with Lookout , the local search tool that integrates into Outlook (recently acquired by Microsoft). Lookout builds a local index of your Outlook mail store, and provides a search interface into that index. I...

As I mentioned in my initial entry, quite a bit of my MS employment history was as a Development Manager; this included MSDN Online, Technet Online, brief stint as owner of the Microsoft.com Download Center, and search.microsoft.com. My experience with...

My current reporting project includes a requirement for daily / weekly / monthly view of distribution and recurrence of user visits to Microsoft.com. The displayed data will differ based on the date period used, so I decided to use multiple subreports...

I have recently been developing against the SRS web service API, and have noticed a few peculiar things about its design. One in particular is the difference in behavior between ListChildren and FindItems . Both of these methods take a parent path parameter...

Oh, wait a minute. This isn't slashdot. Regardless, this is my first post on my shiny new blog. Who: I'm Stuart Updegrave; I work as a developer in the Business Intelligence team for Microsoft.com. I've been working at Microsoft for over 7 years...