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April 2005 - Posts

I don't watch The Apprentice much, mostly because I cringe a lot when I do watch it. Craig Berman has an interesting commentary up on MSNBC, and the paragaph below caught my eye. ' Apprentice' turns into a dogfight "For all those much-maligned marketers Read More...
Update: I've tried it and this tool is officially awesome. :) I haven't tried this yet, but this sounds awesome. Here's a link to the tool and a link to the MBSA page: Visio Connector for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) The Visio Connector Read More...
Sara links to the Regex Builder Tool in the Powertoys Weblog . Check it out here: If you use Regular Expressions, you need to check out this Regex Builder tool One of my coworkers in Visual Studio has created this really cool tool for creating and testing Read More...
In all the work we've been doing around new sites, I haven't had much of a chance to mention everything that's going on. I'll try to do that over the next day or so. One new site that you have to visit is the Coding4Fun Developer Center . We're getting Read More...
Kent has a post up about the changes we've made on MSDN in light of the release of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. Kent and Chris Dahl have been driving this effort on the MSDN side and they've done a spectacular job. Here's a link to Kent's post: Soon == Read More...
I'm a big fan of the Music Thing blog and Thomas links to the Video Thing blog which promises be equally interesting. Read More...
For all of you Mac Mini devotees out there, Apple has released a detailed Developer Note on that little box. It's a good read and it will tell you a lot about Mac achitecture. Check it out here: Introduction to Mac mini Developer Note This developer note Read More...
I'll be at WinHEC from April 25-27 in Seattle this year. This is one of my favorite conferences to go to because it's all metal. :) If anyone is going to be there and wants to meet up with me, just drop me a note . Check out the highlights page if you Read More...
The May issue of MSDN Magazine is online, just in time for baseball season. We'll be headlining these stories over the next few weeks, but you can read them all right now . :) Read More...
Microsoft released a number of critical and important security bulletins today. You can get information about these at the Security Bulletin Search site. Here's a link to the bulletin summary for April 2005: Technical Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary Read More...
Matt Powell posted the other day that the Product Feedback Center can now be used to provide Microsoft with your feedback and suggestions on WSE and Indigo. Here's a link to Matt's post: Give Us Your Feedback on WSE and Indigo Well, we have recently rolled Read More...
I know that this is something a lot of devs will be glad to see; the Windows Media Developer Center . I'm told that the plans are for this site to grow over time, but looking it over I'm seeing a great start. Read More...
This is mostly for my friends that probably wonder where I disappeared to on Friday. I took the day off because it was my anniversary and I wanted to spend the day with my wife. We didn't do anything big, I brought her some flowers and Starbucks in the Read More...
You take one day off and all sorts of stuff happens... Josh Ledgard has information on the new MSDN Forums now in Beta. I think this is going to be a great way for developers to get information and I'm pretty excited about it. Here's the link to the forums Read More...
Microsoft has shipped the Experience Pack for the Table PC . This is really a must-have if you've got a tablet. I was able to sit in on a demo that one of the developers gave to Duncan a few weeks ago. They used some of Duncan's code in the project which Read More...
This is interesting. Can you get in? :) Read More...
Update 2: I changed the link below to take you to a page from which you can view this Webcast on demand. Update: This turned out to be a really good Webcast. (I never doubted it would.) I'll add a link to the archive as soon as I can get it. There's a Read More...
Interested in learning a little more about the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions? Check out the Express Webcasts page. There are upcoming webcasts on Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition , Visual C# 2005 Express Edition , and Visual Web Developer Express Read More...
This weekends MSDN blogs server upgrade has caused a few of the blog feeds on the Developer Centers to go blank. We're fixing those this morning as quickly as we're able to. Read More...
 
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