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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:07 PM

Developing Applications for Small Business

My job has changed recently to focus on the needs of developers who service small businesses. I can now talk about some of the work I've been doing with the launch the Small Business Developer Center . I've been looking at this space for about a year
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:16 PM

Dynamic Languages on the .NET Framework in Silverlight

I’m sure you’ve all been drinking the MIX from the conference that’s going on in Vegas at the moment, but in case you haven’t I wanted to call this out. Dynamic Languages are becoming an important new RAD tool to be familiar with, especially when consuming
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Monday, January 29, 2007 1:20 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Posters

Visual Studio 2005 keybaord shortcuts help make you more productive by giving quick access to common and not-so-common functions within the IDE. I've had wall posters designed for each of the popular langauges in Visual Studio 2005 for you to print out
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Friday, September 15, 2006 1:22 PM

Use Visual Studio to host your development language

The 3rd Visual Studio SDK release is cool for many reasons, but mostly because it's the first release of the SDK that allows developers to use Visual Studio to host any language targeting any runtime. Now you can take advantage of intellisense, syntax
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:00 PM

Functional programming for the .NET Framework

Our Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, UK have recently spoken with the kids over at Channel 9 about their functional language, F#. If you're interested in programming in a functional way rather than imperative (looking a the world through function-coloured
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Monday, August 07, 2006 2:30 PM

Generate MSDN style documentation from your code

This looks very interesting and still has a cool name! Sandcastle http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en Documentation Compilers For Managed Class Libraries Enabling managed class
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Friday, June 09, 2006 2:26 PM

Language-Integrated Query and ADO.NET Futures discussion on Channel 9

Anders Hejlsberg (.NET Language innvoation) and Sam Drucker (Data access programmability layer) got together to discuss the new Language-intergrated query (LINQ) as it relates to ADO.NET on channel 9 this week . A theoretical overview of LINQ and how
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:09 PM

Manage many Windows XP machines with new tool

If you are involved with setting up or administering computers in a shared network - like an internet cafe or a community computer centre - then you'll be familiar with the difficulty in trying to maintain a consistent look and feel to each of the PCs.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:34 PM

New mice and keyboards announced

I particularly like the raised front of the new ergo-keyboard. Check out some photos here and the info here .
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Friday, September 02, 2005 4:13 PM

Juicy XBOX 360 details

Give me one - now! http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60737
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:21 PM

Performance Advisor for Windows Server 2003

I'm sure most of you would've seen this before but I thought it was useful. Download this free tool to capture detailed performance counter information and produce reports to help do root-cause analysis on your Windows Server 2003 machines. It's the Microsoft
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM

MSNs Virtual Earth video

I found this quite amusing take on how information is collected for MSN's Virtual Earth service and thought it blog worthy.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:17 PM

Next generation windowing system demo

The guys at Channel 9 have come up with another brilliant video interview - this time one of the developers on the Avalon team ( Daniel Lehenbauer ) walks us through what Avalon is and how you would assemble and render a 3D enabled windows application
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:28 PM

NT Kernel design whiteboard sessions on Channel 9

I had to post about this. I'm sure it's been seen on blogs.msdn but I just finished watching the Channel 9 four part stream with NT Kernel Architect - Dave Probert. Check out the parts here . He gets deep into the guts of the kernel including the object
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Monday, April 11, 2005 7:52 PM

Funny Geek-Shirts

I was in a meeting with our VS Team System devloper group and had to quickly post about a "geek-shirt" I saw there. I'm sure you've all heard of the famous manly S.S.S. morning ritual of "Shi*, shower and shave". Here's the product developer equivalent
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