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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:19 PM

Available on MSDN: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

As expected , MSDN subscribers (sorry…not sure which subscriber levels) can now download the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site. The Refresh is the same as the previous beta release, but it also includes a Community
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Friday, August 27, 2004 4:43 PM

Announcement: Windows "Longhorn" Client in 2006 and Avalon and Indigo on XP and 2003

We announced today that we’re targeting Windows “Longhorn” client for broad release in 2006. Perhaps even more exciting is that key WinFX technologies, specifically Avalon and Indigo, will be made available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:25 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Team System

According to Rick LaPlante’s blog entry , we’ve started the release process for the next Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2005. It is based on the Beta 1 bits, and the exciting news is that it includes the Team Foundation server for the Visual
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Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:57 AM

Interviewing at Microsoft

I am frequently asked about the interview process at Microsoft, and although I’m usually more than happy to relate my individual story and provide some general tips, I can’t provide nearly the insight that two of our recruiters, Gretchen Ledgard, and
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Friday, August 20, 2004 9:19 AM

MSDN TV: Interview with Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell , of Construx , is responsible for one of my (and many others) top 10 developer books, Code Complete, Second Edition . MSDN TV interviews Steve in this half-hour episode and talks about “updates in the recently published second version,
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:28 PM

Applications Affected by Windows XP Service Pack 2

We’ve published a Knowledge Base article about known applications that are affected by the recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2 . KB article 842242 contains all of the details. Most of the applications and games on the list need to have some
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Monday, August 16, 2004 6:52 PM

21 Rules of Thumb for Delivering Great Products on Time

The August 15, 2004 issue of Software Development Times arrived today, and I wanted to highlight the first article in a series by Jim McCarthy (author of Dynamics of Software Development and co-founder of McCarthy Technologies ) where he enumerates his
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Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:17 PM

WeBlowItUp.com

My wife used to have an inkjet printer that refused to pick up paper. I'd clean the print path, and it would behave okay for a couple of weeks before it needed another cleaning. Each time, I tried to figure out how I could fix it permanently. And each
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Monday, August 09, 2004 7:35 PM

NUnit 2.2 Released

The final version of NUnit 2.2 has been released. It isn’t on the NUnit.org site yet, but you can download it from SourceForge . I haven’t played with it, but the release notes mention a few handy features that I’m curious about. Specifically,
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Monday, August 09, 2004 3:39 PM

More Windows XP Service Pack 2 Information

From another helpful e-mail that we're sending to our customers: Microsoft has made several Windows XP Service Pack 2 resources available to help customers evaluate and deploy Windows XP Service Pack 2. Customers are encouraged to review these resources
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Friday, August 06, 2004 11:11 PM

Windows XP Service Pack 2 RTM Available to MSDN Subscribers

The release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now available for download via MSDN Subscriber Downloads . The CD ISO image weighs in at 475.35MB. If you’d rather let Windows Update automatically install it, visit this
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:07 AM

Free PSS Support for Technical Issues

Have one of those technical questions that you can’t find an answer to in the Microsoft Knowledge Base on through Google ? Well, if you have an active MSDN Subscription , you can now get answers from PSS by posting your question or issue to the
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:37 AM

Doom 3 is Fantastic

I’ve been both a game developer and a game player for a long time now, and like the rest of the world, I’ve been looking forward to the release of Doom 3 . It went on sale today in the United States, and I picked up my copy at Best Buy . I’ve
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Monday, August 02, 2004 11:38 PM

The .NET Show: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005

There’s a new episode of The .NET Show that is an Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 . From the summary: In this episode we talk with Jason Zander and Amnon Horowitz about the important improvements that have been added not only to Visual Studio
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Monday, August 02, 2004 9:31 PM

Microsoft Employee Sighting?

An unidentified creature was sighted in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week at the offices of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Sagestone Consulting, Inc . The creature, unofficially logged as a Microsoft employee, was witnessed by dozens of people during
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