Hola!!! Just a quick note. Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. We have all been heads down preparing for PDC. I wanted to give a heads up to all the SSDS users on the other side of the pond. Myself and Istvan Cseri will be presenting at TechEd EMEA...
A simple tip for those times when you have things to give away randomly to your audience and forgot your bag of dice... Random.org ! This site features a Random Sequence Generator which is simple, but effective. ...
Great pointer from my coworker Brian Johnson on how to test your sites on IE8 without actually installing IE 8 – VPC images. Check ‘em out! BufferOverrun: Brian Johnson: Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images...
I’m sure you already know about this fix for ASP.NET which fixes an issue of “not a valid path” exception, and this fix for ASP.NET 1.1 for the same reason. If you receive this error now on your application, you might not need to apply the hotfix because...
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Some folks reported issues with x64 & with x86 on non-US PCs with our first post . On 10/9/2008 we posted an update. These issues should be fixed now. You are welcome to download from: http://windowsclient.net/wpf/perf/wpf-perf-tool.aspx...
素晴らしい！非常に面白い High DPI の議論です。 Ryan の書いた summary によって議論はますます白熱してきています。ありがとうございます！ --Steven いくつかの白熱した議論とともに、High DPIに対する多くのコメントが寄せられています。それらの多くは、我々が収集してきたデータと一致する、よい例になっています。私たちがデータを持たない分野に対して、これらのコメントは私たちの持つ多くの仮説を裏付けとなっています。もう一つ明らかになったのは、この機能の一部について誤解があり、またこの機能の理想、可能な事、機能そのものに対してある種の「神話」のような部分も見受けられます。この記事では主にそれら問題の要約と、誤解と思われる部分についての詳細を提供したいと思います。...
<no test content in this post> For those of you not from the Seattle area, I'd like to enlighten you to something we call the "east side". There's a big lake (Lake Washington) that separates Seattle (where the cool people live) and Microsoft...
I'm cross posting this discussion from an internal Microsoft mailing list, because I'm so awesomely cool that I just can't bear the thought of everything I ever wrote not being indexed and archived for posterity :-) My reply to a question about...
Many of you don’t know about the Vista Bridge sample library, what can it do or even where you can find it. Let’s start with the basics; i.e. definitions. Vista Bridge is a sample library that contains managed wrappers for a number of Windows Vista APIs...
OK, deep breath for those of you watching the market today. The weekend is here. Markets are closed. Keep in mind that as Cable Digital News reported last week, the financial bailout plan is enough capital to install fiber to every single home (FTTH)...
Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did...
Check out the coolest BI demo in the history of BI demos , this "behind the scenes" clip of the BI surface demo at this year’s Microsoft BI conference in Seattle puts new meaning to the term data visualization. Although this technology is somewhat futuristic...
ILOG has teamed with one of the Microsoft Technology Centers to test the performance of the ILOG Rules Execution Server for .Net running on both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. The tests covered both horizontal and vertical scalability models,...
Microsoft Windows XP with SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2 have been validated, but it is not our policy to reevaluate a validated platform with each subsequent service pack. Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are currently in evaluation...
The latest post from James Silva discusses the drudgeful process of localizing Dishwasher. This triggered a range of incoherent and rambling thoughts, which for some reason I am inspired to post here. It is amazing how much work can be involved in finishing...
As Silverlight RC0 and release come out, you will likely run into some breaking changes in your Beta 2 or older applications. The MSDN docs and SDK that is about to release has a breaking changes doc that lists most of these changes; however, due to these...
Hello Everyone on the VC team is getting really excited about the upcoming PDC in Los Angeles. This will be our first chance to show you some of our upcoming features and a great way for us to get feedback direct from you on what we have implemented so...
A week ago we were all pondering the implications on the 700bn$ rescue package that the US government was planning to vote on. At the time there was hope that this could turn things around…. It was pretty clear to me that it was the end of the beginning…...
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It’s no secret that the nature of software development is radically changing. Come to PDC2008 to experience Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone, and be the first to...
Hace algunas semanas el buen Eduardo Rivadeira me extendió la invitación para participar en un nuevo blog colaborativo dentro de TechNet dirigido a Gerentes de Tecnologías de Información . El concepto para mí es muy ameno porque me da la oportunidad...
It’s no secret that the nature of software development is radically changing. Come to PDC2008 to experience Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone, and be the first to...
My fellow colleague had this customer who was using Exchange Web Services to update body of an appointment item. He created a new appointment from Outlook with some body text, attachments in the body to the position where he wanted, subject & location....
If you are working with a VSTO or managed code solution for Office, you may encounter a System.OutOfMemoryException when working with very large DataSets, XML files, or numerious object serialization calls. The problem typically occurs on a call to System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder...
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