Joakim Karlsson

Microsoft Premier and ADC will be at Techdays

jokarlss — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:40:00 GMT

During Techdays 17-18th of mars Microsoft Services will have it's own display case to talk about what Microsoft Services can do for you.

More information about Techdays can be found here.

I will attend and looking forward seeing you there.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 Released

jokarlss — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:41:00 GMT

Now it is possible to download Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0

Features of Microsoft Web Platform Installer is:

· Single installer for all Microsoft Web Platform components including:

o Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP SP3

o IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 SP2

o IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008

o SQL Server 2008 Express

o .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

o Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1

· ASP.NET, Complete and Custom installation options

· XML-based product manifest updated automatically when tool is run

New VSTS virtual machines

jokarlss — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:59:00 GMT

It is now possible to download new VSTS images:

VSTS “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
TFS “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)
VSTS “all-up” Hyper-V image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
TFS “only” Hyper-V image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

The expiration date is December 31, 2009.

Zoomit and live tools

jokarlss — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:20:00 GMT

Recently Sysinternals have released a new version of Zoomit (2.2).

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations.

You could either download it here or run it live here without installation.

There are some really cool applications that you could use online without any installation on the machine. Please go to http://live.sysinternals.com

Sneak preview to PDC2008

jokarlss — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:36:00 GMT

It is not to late to register to Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008).

If you haven't decied yet if you should go you could look at Channel9 for more info.

I hope that all you guys that are going to PDC will have a good conference.

New at Microsoft

jokarlss — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:26:00 GMT

Two weeks has passed since i started working at Microsoft as an application development consultant(ADC). A colleague to me (Kristofer Liljeblad) has described the job like this.

I agree with Kristofer that it isn't easy to describe what actually an ADC does, but i would like to summarize it to "Help our customers to be more productive by our experience".

My absolute drive is to help our customers and make their work easier and more productive. I love technology and i love seeing my customers happy so hopefully that is an great combination for an ADC.

By using this blog i will not only give the ADC point of view in my articles i will also try to share many good tips and tricks too all of you that aren't my customer yet!

Joakim Karlsson

Application Development Consultant