My second webcast which was a part of the webcast series done by Visual Basic Team called "Live From Redmond" webcasts on Visual Studio "Orcas" was on building N-Tier application using Visual Studio "Orcas". I gave this webcast a couple of weeks ago and...

Visual Basic team is hosting a series of "Live From Redmond" webcasts on Visual Studio "Orcas" and I gave one on LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer a couple of days ago. Thanks to all who tuned in. I covered following topics in my webcast: Mapping...

Last week I gave two talks during http://www.devconnections.com/shows/SP2007VS/default.asp?s=93 . Below are descriptions and links to slides for both sessions. Thanks to everyone who attended. I had a great time! VMS305: LINQ to SQL: Bringing SQL Code...

Been 7 months since my latest post. Why? Orcas . It's been a great ride and I can't wait to tell you all the great features my team worked on. March CTP is finally out and Beta 1 is coming soon. My team is putting final touches to the last feature we...

Kris – COO Jim – EVP of Division X YJ – Development Manager in Division X Mike – Lead Developer in Division X Paul – Development Manager in Division Y Conversation #3: 3:00 PM, Kris & Mike KRIS : You better have a good explanation of why project...

If you've been trying to figure out why you cannot access the return value when using stored procedures in TableAdapter, here's the answer and the solution for you. Assume I added a new query to my TableAdapter via Dataset Designer and named it ReturnSomething...

I got a perfect article for you if you've been wondering about what the heck your manager does and how to work with him/her so that you can be successful. Deconstructing Managers Day 1 Deconstructing Managers Day 2 Deconstructing Managers Day 3 Deconstructing...

Change the world. Will take my entire life to achieve this goal. But I will never get bored for sure. Technorati Tags: career

I certainly did not exepct to see our Corporate VP to be on video like this and even show silly side of him. Video itself is not that interesting. But outtakes at the end made me laugh out loud. Glad I had my door shut in my office. :) Ed Helms' on...

Doug Seven wonders accountability issue with Scrum . And yag wants to discuss this further. If you read follow up comment Doug posted for his entry, you can easily discover that the team is still in learning phase. Folks. Scrum is not a magic bullet...

Today I am full of ideas around community and customer.  Here's my top 10 list of how you as a software engineer should view customers as. Customers pay your salaries, not your CEO. Customers never complain.  They demand. Customers are not...

BlakeHandler told me that he's keeping track of Microsoft Bloggers Directory List .  Thanks Blake! Very useful and something we should definitely provide on our side.  I often wonder how people find our team blog when I receive feedback from it. Update...

Yag moves on .  He used to be the Group Manager of Visual Studio Data team before the team got merged into Visual Basic product unit and became a part of Visual Studio Professional Data team.  Although I only spent a couple of months in Visual Studio...

So far, there were only two fonts suitable for IDEs such as Visual Studio, Courier New and Lucida Console. There's a third choice now. Go grab Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005 now. You can see differences between three fonts from Glen Gordon...

Scoble ponders about how Agile methodologies such as Scrum can be applied to Visual Studio, Office or Windows teams in his Another test of "is Microsoft listening" post. Scrum is everywhere now. Even Scoble talks about it. I do firmly believe that...

Thought it might be helpful to list out ways you can vent if you are mad about our products. :) Product Feedback Center : http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/ All bugs or suggestions you enter automatically get entered into our internal...

No matter how hard you try, you cannot make every single customer happy with the product you ship. There will be bugs and someone will get seriously mad after fighting with your product for several days. I received an email from a very angry customer...

Agile Development relies heavily on human interactions. User stories intentionally leave out details so that people can talk. Team members sit together so that they can interact with each other always. It emphasizes human side of software development...

Peter van Ooijen @ Codebetter.com talked about RAD experience in Visual Studio 2005 . He does a great job of highlighting useful features and also provide gotchas that developers should be aware of. By the way, if your job involves writing software and...

Visual Studio 2005: The Difference is Obvious Expand your skill set and increase your value in the job market. Check out the new Visual Basic 2005 Webcasts and find out how to receive a complimentary Visual Studio 2005 Discovery Pack. Great chance...

Learned this neat trick today. This obviously is not well-known. I've been dealing with SQL for many years and haven't heard of this till today. MSDN article on SET FMTONLY One very useful application of this trick is to get the schema of result...

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage Addison Wesley Signature Series If you know who Scott Ambler is, then you definitely want to read this latest book he wrote. If you don't know who Scott Ambler...

When I told the team at my previous company that I was joining Microsoft, there were few who showed their disappointments. I was their Agile cheer-leader and they couldn't believe that I chose Microsoft. Why move all the way across the country (NY ->...

Today, Microsoft announced its plan to make SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition available later this year. This one is targeted for what we call Occationally Connected Systems (OCS) such as mobile devices. Links: SQL Server 2005 Update from Paul...

Neat trick on SELECTing random rows using NewID() function. Select random rows from a table in SQL ( TechRepublic )