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Friday, March 31, 2006 4:15 PM

Be one of the first to get the Office 2007 & Vista public betas

A number of customers have asked me how they can learn more about and get their hands on the betas of Office & Vista for general evaluation. If you have been asking the same thing, then have a look at https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/ . From
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:40 PM

Public web services to help you mash-it-up

With all the buzz around Web 2.0 and AJAX, mash-up applications are becoming very popular. In fact we launched our Mash-it-up with Atlas contest last week. But what are you going to mash up? I asked about public web services here . Well I have compiled
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:57 AM

Want more WPF/E?

Mike Harsh is bloggin about it! Here's what you'll find if you follow the link: All the details we announced at MIX06 Screenshots (running in both IE & Firefox) Links to some other blog posts & articles on WPF/E Joe Stegman's WPF/E slide deck
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Monday, March 27, 2006 5:51 PM

"We are easy to manage, a gregarious people...", a Team Foundation Server said what?

"We are easy to manage, a gregarious people, Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries. " ATTRIBUTION: Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), U.S. poet. Ave Caesar (l. 7–8). . . Excuse me while I pass the time enjoying spring weather with
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Monday, March 27, 2006 12:06 PM

SQL Server 2005 Report Packs

Eight report packs have just been released for SQL Server 2005. Report packs are sample reports that you can use as templates to quickly author and distribute new interactive reports. The 8 report packs include: · SQL Server 2005 Report Pack for SQL Server
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Monday, March 27, 2006 10:00 AM

BizTalk Server 2006 RTMs

This morning in London, we announced that BizTalk Server 2006 has released to manufacture...more info at: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk , although this page has more about what's new and exciting -- http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/overview/default.mspx
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Friday, March 24, 2006 3:15 PM

“Moo” may represent an idea, but only the cow knows it - Mason Cooley

Likewise "CAL" might represent a client access license, but only a licsensing expert knows it. I get a fair number of questions regarding the CAL requirements of the Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition compared to the full blown, unlimited product.
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Friday, March 24, 2006 10:09 AM

WSRP, JSR168, and Microsoft

In my experience, people interested in portals can be roughly divided into two groups. One of those groups cares deeply about WSRP and JSR168 and the other doesn’t. If you belong to the former group or are simply curious about what WSRP and JSR 168 are
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Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:28 PM

Office Open XML

One of the most exciting new features of Office 12 is that it uses XML file formats ( http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developers/filefaq.mspx ) by default. Although XML file formats were supported in Office 2003, they were optional in that release.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:15 PM

Overview of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers Webcast on March 29, 2006

Learn about Visual Studio from Microsoft through the Visual Studio Webcast Series Webcast will run 12:00 – 1:30 PM, EST March 29, 2006 – Overview of VSTE for Software Testers Description: Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers includes a suite of test
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:55 PM

The [Visual Studio Team Foundation Server] Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on

Yeah, yeah... but I want to move portions of my TFS to new machines! How the heck can I do it? Here's a post on the VSTF UE blog that can walk you through several of these scenarios: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/archive/2006/03/22/558178.aspx Happy moving!
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:18 AM

MIX06: Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere ("WPF/E")

WPF/E is a subset of WPF focused on interactive content that works cross platform. WPF/E can be hosted in multiple browsers and on multiple operating systems. That's right, including operating systems other than Windows. WPF/E, like WPF, uses XAML. Unlike
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:53 AM

MIX06: Windows Sidebar Gadgets

Another interesting smart client technology being discussed at MIX06 is gadgets . Gadgets are written in HTML and javascript, technologies familiar to web developers. They can be hosted as part of the live.com portal. From a smart client perspective,
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:46 AM

MIX06: Windows Presentation Foundation

One of the smart client technologies we've talked a lot about in the past is Windows Presentation Foundation . One of the key points made during MIX06 is that there is an increasing number of display types that devices uses. The application UI may need
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:45 AM

MIX06: Virtual MIX

So you couldn't attend the MIX06 conference but you are interested in what Microsoft is doing around all this Web 2.0 buzz? Take a look at http://blog.mix06.com/virtualmix/ . Subscribe to the RSS feed or visit the url periodically because: "The keynotes
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:18 AM

Developer Dinner (Reston, VA) - March 29th: Windows Communication Foundation (Win an XBOX)

Join Robert Shelton Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelist for a Developer Dinner Overview of Windows Communication Foundation (code name: Indigo) for Developers Register today! http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032291426
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:12 PM

MIX06: Beyond the Browser

The theme for the second day of MIX06 was Beyond the Browser. In disconnected scenarios, in scenarios where the application wants to have total control of the user experience, and in scenarios where you want to better integrate with tools the user is
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:36 AM

MIX06: Windows Live Developer Center

The Windows Live Developer Center is now available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/live/ . This site contains SDKs, articles, and examples to help you get started building applications which leverage Windows Live Services. Areas of focus include: Search
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:29 AM

MIX06: Atlas

Atlas is a framework for building AJAX style web applications. One of the big announcements at the conference was a new CTP with a go live license. Due to popular demand, this license will allow developers to put Atlas applications into production. You
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:27 AM

MIX06: RSS

One of the trends that we see is the use of RSS for more than blogs and news. As the mash-up trend shows, it is becoming a mechansim for allowing applications to exchange data. In order to make it easier to build applications which leverage RSS, we are
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:21 AM

MIX06: Internet Explorer

One of the goals of the keynotes was to make clear that we strongly support Internet Explorer as a development platform. We acknowledged that we have gone too long between releases and have committed to a much more frequent release cycle. A new build
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:22 AM

MIX06: Next Generation Browsing Experience

By now, many of you have heard about the MIX06 conference going on in Las Vegas . There is a ton of information coming out of the conference. Over the next few days, we will try to highlight the announcements that are the most interesting for Federal
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Friday, March 17, 2006 5:13 PM

Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit (SCBAT) March CTP

I've blogged about SCBAT before here . While catching up on some blog reading I noticed that Eugenio had announced the March CTP. I downloaded the CTP and did a quick scan. If you've been waiting for a more mature release or better documentation, then
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Friday, March 17, 2006 4:23 PM

Mister Know-It-All, or How to become an expert on VSTS

One of my favorite cartoon characters was Mr. Know-It-All. Am I dating myself? Why not - Bullwinkle still rocks after all these years. How would you like to be Mr. Know-It-All when it comes to project management theory and life cycle support underlying
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Friday, March 17, 2006 4:07 PM

Blarney Stone? - Not! Foundation Server RTMs March 17th

This ain't just the luck o' the Irish! The hard work and dedication of countless Microsoft engineers comes to fruitition today with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server release to manufacturer. Bottom line - MSDN subscribers should be able to get the
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Friday, March 17, 2006 3:27 PM

Installing the SMTP Service on Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 contains an SMTP service. This is useful if you have applications that need to send e-mail, but don't have access to an e-mail server. For example, in a development or demo environment. It turns out that there is a trick to installing
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Friday, March 17, 2006 2:15 PM

Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2.2 released today

I just noticed that Paul Andrew blogged about the latest release of Windows Workflow Foundation . There are some important caveats to installing this release so please review the important notes section on the download page . -Marc UPDATE: The download
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Friday, March 17, 2006 8:48 AM

SQL Server 2005 SP1 CTP

A community technology preview of the first service pack for SQL Server 2005 is now available. The CTP process, which was used for SQL Server 2005, proved to be such a good source of customer feedback, that the SQL Server team is continuing to use it
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:31 PM

Static Code Analysis Guide for Custom Rules (formerly FxCop)

It's doomsday certain that my skateboard finatic son would call them rulz, but I figured that I would call them according to en-EN and not en-US mime type. Anyway, many customers have asked questions regarding custom rules for VS 2005 static code analysis,
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Monday, March 13, 2006 1:39 PM

SQL Server 2005 -- Tools for row and cell level security

As if you needed more reasons to start using SQL Server 2005, we've got another big one! You may have seen links we posted on implementing row level security in SQL Server 2005 in previous posts . Now we are making available a toolkit for easily applying
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Friday, March 10, 2006 6:46 AM

2 downloads on Threat Modeling

What is Microsoft Application Threat Modeling (Hi-Res Video) Brief Description: A video introducing the Microsoft Application Threat Modeling process. Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling v2.0 BETA2 Brief Description: Threat modeling to empower application
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:07 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast series

Marc blogged this about a week ago, but we recently modified the URL so I wanted to point you at the updated URL. We recently launched a set of 45 webcasts on ASP.NET 2.0 that focus on teaching ASP.NET 2.0 from the perspective of a developer with prior
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:14 PM

Can't add a web reference after installing WinFX?

I recently uninstalled the January CTP of WinFX and then installed the February CTP (see instructions here ). I have been moving right along with no problems until late last week when I tried to “Add Web Reference...” When I did, I received this peculiar
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:14 PM

I'm looking for public web services

Do you know of any? I'm compiling a list of public services one can use in their own applications. I am looking for anything of value that is consumable. I would prefer they have some sort of government focus or benefit. It would also be nice if they
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:25 PM

Secure Software Forum -- Workshop series

The Secure Software Forum is conducting a Workshop Series over the next few months. During these events they will discuss best practices for implementing security early in the software application lifecycle and participants will learn specific techniques
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:12 PM

Great resource for VB6 & classic ASP developers

Are you a VB6 or classic ASP developer looking for resources to get up to speed on Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0? Did you read my blog post about the ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series for PHP, JSP, and ColdFusion developers and wonder "What about
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Monday, March 06, 2006 10:01 AM

Loading XML Documents into SQL Server 2005 - Part 4

This is the fourth in a series of posts. You can find the previous posts here ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). In my previous posts, the data in an xml file was retrieved as a single row. It is more realistic to consider an xml file that contains multiple rows of data.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:00 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series for PHP, JSP, and ColdFusion Developers

Are you a PHP, JSP, or ColdFusion developer interested in ASP.NET? Well, we have the webcast series for you! When you attend three webcasts, you'll receive an ASP.NET 2.0 Development Pack, including Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 Standard Edition (Not
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