For the first message of my new life, I have an issue with Orcas CTP on Vista: I know I supposed to use Orcas CTP in a VPC but I have only 2GB on my vista laptop and it's very paintfull to not have enough ram for both Vista and the VPC. So...

I decided to leave Microsoft to come back to my first activity: be part of a startup; in 1990, I founded a first software startup which is sleeping since years... Leaving a company like MS is not an easy step considering be part of this company was...

Chris . Sells does a great job of listing the great features of Vista . (good things to know....) I no longer have to do Ctrl+Esc, R before I can type something to run (I'm a huge keyboard guy); I just have to type Ctrl+Esc and start typing. This savings...

.NET Framework 3 News and Announcements The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here: .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components Windows SDK for Vista and the...

Do you want to get yourself familiar and up to date with .NET 3.0 Framework? Then this is your best chance to do so for FREE. Go to this site and register and you can choose to conduct 3 x 2 Hours premium clinics about the new capabilities provided by...

Longhornblogs is dead...... viva WindowsNow

Found on LonghornBlog this interesting postfrom Robert McLaws { Last night I posted about Visual Studio Support on Windows Vista . Scott Guthrie , GPM from the Developer Division, had this to say on a blog this morning : The big technical challenge...

Found on LonghornBlogs this interesting post from Robert Law ... { I was briefed earlier today on Visual Studio support on Windows Vista , and I wanted to clear the air... because there seems to be some confusion. Visual Studio 6.0 - Supported...

Book:Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer) (Paperback) by Charles Petzold is available in bookstore

Found MSDN Article on WinFs Update Read here

Do you ever need to get stack traces for your .NET 2.0 applications? Want a quick and easy way to monitor managed processes and threads? Need a way to view a thread's stack trace to investigate an application hang? If so, Managed Stack Explorer is for...

found on Windows Presentation Foundation SDK .. Beta2 WPF Samples Available as Zipped Download If you're interested in downloading the entire set of WPF samples for the Beta2 release of the SDK, they're available as a stand-alone download...

To coincide with TechEd, a new community site for the .Net Framework 3.0 has launched. This site incorporates the existing WF ( www.windowsworkflow.net ) and WPF ( www.windowscommunication.net ) sites and adds new sites for Windows Presentation Foundation...

The new homepage for Windows Live Developers has launched!

Windows Vista Beta 2 Web Site .....

Daniel Lehenbauer published in his Blog a new version of his library.... Check here ....

CodePlex is Microsoft’s community development website and is a great spot to go to check out projects that people are already work on, and to start projects you’ve been meaning to for a long time.

As part of our continued efforts to give customers early access to our technology - we have just made available the Activesync 4.2 Beta Preview. It supports devices from Pocket PC 2002 all the way through to the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 devices... ...

Cool Workaround from a MS guy found here *** I am currently working on the Demos for our local Big>Days 2006 road show for Windows Vista and Windows Presentation Foundation. Originally the Windows Vista team claimed, that they will have no support...

This evening, Beta Testers for Windows Vista were given a new interim build - Build 5365 - to test. http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

SP1 has been released! The release includes Management Studio Express, Express Edition with Advanced Services (Full-text Search and Reporting Services) and Express Edition Toolkit (necessary for building reports for Express Edition with Advanced Services...

vXCopy version 1.0.7.3 recompiled with RTM version of dotNetFx 2.0 is available now here The tool uses Click-Once technology to install and update new version automatically

Videos available here: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ Enjoy

PDC05 Has Begun Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four

PDC 2005 started with Pre conference yesterday and today; real stuff (keynotes+tracks will start tomorrow)