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Rob Bagby has started a new series (blog posts and screencasts) on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight . The series illustrates various design patterns while building a sample application (see screenshot below). The patterns covered
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Researchers continue to challenge Apple’s security by obscurity position and highlights that Windows Vista and Windows 7 are more secure than the recently released Mac OS X Snow Leopard . I always love perspectives like these from top researchers that
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With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks ( Win7 Boston , Win7 Reston , CRM Reston , CRM Boston , Win 7 Irvine , Mobility Mountain View ,), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure at Atlanta, GA
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Windows 7 has broken the Amazon UK pre-order volume record, ousting Harry Potter. Just read this post from Vladislav Savov on engadget.com. Here’s what they said: “Take it from us, your London-based sleuths, when anything sells faster than Harry Potter
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The October Service Update for Microsoft Online Services includes several new features and enhancements designed to improve the service experience for both administrators and users. The Service Update is currently being deployed into production data centers.
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Thanks John Wiese for pointing me to this blog. I thought it was hilarious. The pictures tells it all. The blog is supposedly excerpts from Steve Jobs secret diary. Classic… Sounds like there’s some real pain with the upgrade to Snow Leopard for a lot
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I thought this was hilarious, so I had to share… So the hacks are all up in arms about some blogger's claim that when you upgrade to Snow Leopard we downgrade your version of the Adobe Flash player. Now stories are popping up all over, like here on PC
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Jared Bienz ( blog & Ch9 ), one of Microsoft’s ISV Architect Evangelists based out of Houston, created this basic guide to help ISV’s get compatible with Windows 7. ISV Trend - So many ISV’s are worried that their customers will dump them for a competitor
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Today, October 8th, I read on Giles Turnball’s blog, Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg declared that Windows 7 to be a match for OSX and said it it is the best Windows Microsoft has ever produced. People listen to what Walt says, so this I thought this
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Here’s a great HOW TO video on Windows 7 Taskbar from Gunther Lenz, an ISV Architect Evangelist on my team. Title - Update: Windows 7 Taskbar in 5 Minutes URL - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Update-Windows-7-Taskbar-in-5-Minutes/ This is the first
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NEW MSDN and TechNet Firestarter session recordings are now available on demand! Download the Silverlight Firestarter technical sessions - With Scott Guthrie leading the roster of presenters, learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight
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The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team announced a NEW Project in CodePlex : A Guide for Claims Based Identity & Access Control This new Guide introduces developers to the world of claims based authentication and access control. With the introduction
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Microsoft Security Essentials has been released. Check out the formal press release from Microsoft here - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/sep09/09-28securityessentialspr.mspx Check out the post on Network World - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092809-microsoft-security-essentials-ships.html?hpg1=bn
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I watched one of Russ Fustino’s demo’s on SketchFlow recently and found it to be very helpful. If you are interested in SketchFlow, it’s worth a look. Your can download the demo script is posted at http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for Episode 3. Thanks
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Here’s a great list of new Windows Azure related “How Do I” screencasts. Leverage Concurrency in Windows Azure Table Storage? Windows Azure table storage is designed to support many users at the same time. In this session, you’ll learn how Windows Azure
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