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BUILD Windows 8

I'm down in LA (OK, Anaheim actually...) for the BUILD Windows 8 conference - what was previously...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 09/12/2011

Getting BidNow to Work

For the auction at my kid’s school, I volunteered to set up a simple web site to be able to review...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/07/2011

VMWare and Hyper-V

For a client engagement, I was provided VMWare images.  I don’t have VMWare, but have a server...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 01/09/2011

Excel Pivot Table Missing a Column from Source Data?

I have a large spreadsheet I’ve gotten from a colleague.  To help categorize it for a pivot...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/19/2010

Windows 7 Homegroup and Domain

For a consulting project, I recently had to join my laptop to an Active Directory domain at a...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/01/2010

Outlook 2010 Always Trying to Send Messages

I noticed a while ago that my Outlook 2010 connected over IMAP to my company email and Outlook...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 09/17/2010

Serializing to XML

I’m doing some performance testing on Azure tracing to figure out the overhead of trace statements...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 08/03/2010

Virtual Memory and Performance

There’s an interesting article about performance of server apps in the July 2010...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 07/16/2010

Outlook Mailing Addresses

To fix a problem with a corrupted Outlook profile, I created a new profile which caused all my...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 07/12/2010

Help With Outlook Connector Errors (80004005 and 4350)

I use the Outlook Connector for MSN to access my MSN mail, calendar and contacts in Outlook...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 06/30/2010

Using Custom Performance Counters with Windows Azure Services

Windows makes available a wide variety of performance counters which of course are available to your...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 06/22/2010

Leveraging Azure Diagnostics to Troubleshoot Intermittent Problems

One of the practices I advise with Windows Azure services (and really any service) is...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 06/17/2010

Diagnostics and Logging in Windows Azure

My MSDN Magazine article on diagnostics and logging in Windows Azure is now available in the June...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 06/07/2010

Skype App-to-App Channels and Microsoft Robotics Studio

For a consulting project, I’ve been playing around with getting the Skype public API to work with...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/28/2010

Robotics Studio R2

As part of a project I’m doing for a Seattle startup, I’m playing with Microsoft Robotics Developer...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/09/2010

Windows Azure Panel Discussion Q&A

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today which just finished with a panel discussion and...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/06/2010

Building Applications for the Cloud

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Aiken from the Azure team...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/06/2010

Windows Azure SQL Notes

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Robinson from the SQL team...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/06/2010

Windows Azure Storage Overview

I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard Brad Calder give a quick...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/06/2010

A PowerShell Cmdlet for Managing Windows Azure Diagnostics

I decided to write a PowerShell cmdlet to manage Windows Azure diagnostics.  This cmdlet will...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 03/05/2010

XBox 360 Media Center Extender Error – SymAddin

Every time I start my XBox 360 as a Media Center Extender (i.e. select “Windows Media Center” from...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/28/2010

ASP Forms Authentication in myFerry

As a previous post mentioned, I’ve added the AspProviders Azure sample to the myFerry app to provide...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/10/2010

Don’t Assume

Just fixed a bug where a query being issued from my service to Azure table storage was returning no...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/07/2010

Timed Update to a Page

One of the features in my ferry app is to show the time remaining until the next ferry.  This...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/04/2010

Updates to my Azure Ferry App

I’ve been working on getting my ferry times app running and have recently been motivated to step it...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/04/2010

Backing up a MacBook Running Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X

I have a MacBook on which I use Boot Camp to dual-boot to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. ...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 01/04/2010

Everyone I’ve Sent Mail To

For a farewell mail to my colleagues at Microsoft (I’ve decided to move on, but will continue...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 12/20/2009

Top Ten Things at PDC 2009

P.main:first-letter { COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: xx-large } I’m sitting at LAX writing this summary...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/19/2009

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2009) : Tuesday

This is the first time I’ve been to PDC in a number of years, and it is fun to be back.  Here...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/17/2009

Azure – from July CTP to November 2009 PDC Release

Well, the official PDC 2009 release of the Azure SDK is out and there are a lot of changes. ...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/17/2009

DevDays Seattle – Scott Hanselman

Lolcode.net – funny site with a domain-specific language that mimics IM syntax.  Actual code...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/21/2009

DevDays Seattle – Joel Spolsky

We get interrupted too much by a computer that has an agenda of its own for ourselves. Examples:...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/21/2009

DevDays Seattle

I’m at DevDays Seattle, an event sponsored by Stack Overflow and Microsoft.  I look at it as a...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/21/2009

Azure Service: Moving Storage from Development (local) to the Cloud

As part of the process of moving my Azure test service from running entirely locally (on what's...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/13/2009

MVC and CSS

I've spent some time trying to figure out why my simple MVC site (built on Azure) isn't rendering...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/12/2009

Simple Azure Service Experience

I started a couple of days ago working on my first Azure service and have learned a lot. It's a...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/08/2009

PDC 2009

I registered for PDC 2009 today, getting in under the wire for the pre-September 15 discount....

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 09/14/2009

Unix Time and Windows Time

A little note in Portfolio magazine caught my attention: On Friday, February 13, at 23:31:30, the...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 01/17/2009

Excel Conditional Formatting Against a Goal Value

Today, for a metrics worksheet I'm doing, I had a conditional formatting problem with Excel. I...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 12/30/2008

Business Contact Manager and Outlook 2007

My group at work has decided to use Business Contact Manager (BCM) for tracking engagements we're...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/26/2008

Don't Forget Those Passports!

As an experienced international traveler, I am embarrassed to admit that on a trip this weekend, I...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 01/15/2008

Lost Vista Password

My son has an HP laptop and playing around, changed his password and then couldn't get into his...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/25/2007

Windows C++ Exception Handling

Good post on how to see the stack when an exception is thrown on Windows at...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/11/2007

Update on Windows XP Install over Windows Server 2003

I wrote about most of the issues I encountered with installing Windows XP on a machine that...

Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/11/2007

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