First of all I would like to answer that where I was so many days and why no updates and what’s next. Actually there have been many instances where I committed myself to come back for blogging with regular updates and sharing my ConfigMgr production experiences...

Note: All the programs listed below can be downloaded directly into Small Basic.  Just import the programs using their published Id. What started as a fun challenge in our Small Basic Forums , quickly turned into a repository of very interesting...

Microsoft just released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK .This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2. What’s New? Service Model UI Windows Azure Service Hosting Runtime...

The November 2009 CTP of ACS integrates with Active Directory Federation Server v2. ACS can act as a bridge between enterprise identity and REST web services. The runtime flow is pretty simple (shown below). At runtime, the client app requests a SAML...

Juste à temps pour la PDC! Voici une version mise à jour du SDK Windows Azure ainsi que des Outils Windows Azure pour Visual Studio (2008 et 2010 Beta2). Vous les trouverez en téléchargement à ces emplacements: Windows Azure Software Development Kit (November...

After working several event booths doing demo’s and hosting a launch party at my house, it’s always interesting to me to see the different reactions to Windows 7. There’s the user who still is a Windows XP user, and there’s the user who’s running Windows...

As an HPC cross platform developer, I have spent a good part of my 20s working on scientific codes under different operating systems.  Windows, Mac, LINUX, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, Solaris.  Building /compiling code is a full time job, not to mention...

Quite a few folks from the Microsoft HPC team will be heading down to Portland next week to attend the 2009 super computing conference.  I will be distributing a new version of the memory stick containing  reference materials .  ( download...

Hey everybody. At the PDC this year the Web Platform Team at Microsoft has lots of great stuff in store for you all.   The Web Platform Pavilion in the Big Room at PDC is hosting a series of Chalk Talks during PDC with some really exciting sessions...

As a follow up to my previous post , I have updated the code to add the ability to extract SMPTE timecode ranges.    The WMMetadataReader class (in WMMetadataReader.h) now has a public method like below: System::Collections::Generic::List<SMPTETimeCodeRange^>^...

I had an interesting conversation with two teachers last week. One the chair of the computer science of a large state university and the other a teacher in a career/technical high school. We were talking about how beginning programming students worked...

Let us try following T-SQL script on SQL Server: declare @a float =300000000000000000000000000000000000 select @a + 50 -@a select @a -@a +50 go Guess what is the result? the first is 0 . and the second result is 50 . Floating point data is approximate;...

Since releasing the new version of ACS on Nov 5, we’ve received quite a bit of feedback that we should provide a UI for managing ACS rules/scopes/issuers/token policies. In response, Cyrus put together a little WPF app that does the trick. It’s available...

Today, One customer asked about collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI with non unique nonclustered index we are getting a sort on the query plan. The sample script is: CREATE TABLE TableWithASColumn(ID INT PRIMARY KEY, CharData VARCHAR(100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS)...

Thanks to plastic bricks from Denmark, kids in the United States (and all around the world are learning to program at age 8). I had the priviledge of coaching a young team of NC kids (9 to 11 years old) to win the NC State Championship in FLL in three...

Win32/Rustock is a multi-component family of rootkit-enabled backdoor trojans, which were historically developed to aid in the distribution of spam e-mail. First discovered sometime in early 2006, Rustock has evolved to become a prevalent and pervasive...

When people ask me what I do at Microsoft, in the style of one of “the Bobs” in Office Space posing the question “What would you say ya do here?”, I point them to things like the SDL , the SDL Pro Network , which I manage, or MSVR , which I founded and...

  Rob and I worked hard on updating this for SL 3. If you do happen to purchase it, please let us know if you like the format, the topics and any thoughts on how we can improve. We are about to start early work on the next edition for Silverlight...

Last week I had an article featured in the UK MSDN Flash magazine, the article was describing how I have set up your automated builds to deploy to Windows Azure using the recently released management services. The article “Deploying to the Cloud as Part...

Shadow Architecture is method of communicating architecture to others on your agile team. The idea is that components and classes cast "shadows". These shadows are simplified views of the code base. UML is a type of shadow. We can look at a UML model...

having trouble upgrading? here's the main culprits...

I’m not ashamed to admit that a couple of weeks ago I spent my Saturday evening with my girlfriend, nachos, a comfortable sofa and X-factor (equivalent to ‘American Idol’ in the U.S.). I am a person who gets very excited every time he realises that life...

Everybody’s abuzz about NASA ’s recent discovery of water on the moon . I’m guessing science teachers are scrambling to re-do their lesson plans or come up with new ones, students will change plans for their science fair projects, and science fiction...

ThinkTime by definition is the time spent by a User thinking about his next step. This has been leveraged in VSTT RnP (as also in VSTT Web Test) to make the Playback more resilient. If the ThinkTime is turned ON then the delay between each actions is...

Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, a PM on the Access team responsible for Access form and report designers. If you want to build an easy to use application it always starts with a good navigation model that allows users to quickly perform the...