The first full week of PDC2008 dry-runs is complete! If you're not familiar with our dry-run process, take a look at PDC2008: A Day in the Life #6 . The on-campus dry-runs continue through this Thursday. After that, we have a little over a week to make...

So you’ve all undoubtedly heard of our newest campaign … if not, see my post from a few weeks ago… I was told that I’m famous, but didn’t believe it until I saw this: Yep… that’s yours truly in Times Squre, New York, in all my geekdom. Pretty cool, eh…...

Gary Vaynerchuk has a wake up call for those who are serious about marketing .  I’m trying to learn more about marketing, and even I can understand some of his points here.  It’s not about who helped you before, or historically, which were the...

A Scenario and Feature Frame is a matrix that shows incremental value and dependencies.  It's a simple way to show management your baseline release, your nice to have scenarios, and your vNext planning.  It's also a great way for your development...

My first article ( IConnectionPoint and .NET ) is a multi-part discussion contrasting .NET delegate-style event handling with classic COM IConnectionPoint eventing from managed code. Excel is my choice of victim application....

My name's Richard and I'm a developer in the Visual Studio Tools for Office team at Microsoft....

Recompilation pour un passage en version VSTO 3 SP1 qui permet de logger les erreurs. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OfficePriseEnMain Pour voir les erreurs de VSTO c’est ici : To read the event log in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP In Control Panel,...

Well ... must probably wait until PDC to be able to discover the positioning between both technologies, but some comments and guidance are posted at: https://blogs.msdn.com/darrenj/archive/2008/10/01/dublin.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/MainaD/archive/2008/10/06/125675.aspx...

Conventional wisdom tells us that size matters, and unconventional (or more accurately, inappropriate?) wisdom tends to concur. Most of the time it refers to the idea that bigger is better . But there are some times that it matters in the opposite way...

What happens when you create a Control? When do overrides get called and events get raised? When do styles get applied? In response to this thread on silverlight.net, I've whipped this simple table up. There are some subtle differences between instantiating...

  The Windows Embedded group of Microsoft has promised a greater presence at TechEd. Well TechEd EMEA developers   will be hosting a huge Embedded Track this year! More than 20 sessions will be delivered by experts covering all the Windows Embedded...

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Bill Burrows , VB MVP, has released some great videos on the ASP.Net Dynamic Data features that were added in VS2008 SP1. What is Dynamic Data? "ASP.Net Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application,...

It’s pretty rare these days that I’m pleasantly surprised by something. However, it happened recently when I bought an in-car kit for my Zune player. Frankly, my expectation levels weren’t that high. Not because I suspected there would be anything wrong...

This blog is entirely off-topic and carries the same parental warning that Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville album already has, since that is where quoted lyrics are from.... There are friends of mine who think I am a huge fan of Aimee Mann, following her...

I have been using Windows Server 2003 standard edition as a workstation OS on my laptop for sometime now. I have recently been given a brand new Lenovo T61P with 4GB of memory and have installed it as a multi-boot system with Windows Server 2003 as one...

Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Team Conf 2008 in München Anfang des Jahres, gibt es dieses Jahr noch die erste Team Conf 2008 in Zürich :-) Ich werde einen Session zum Thema wie Microsoft intern den Entwicklungsprozess mit Team Foundation Server abbildet...

In other news, this particular lab session represents the last chunk of work I’ll be completing as an ‘Architect Evangelist’ at Microsoft as I’m now moving into the role of ‘Evangelism Lead’ within DPE in the UK (so same overall team). What does that...

Wow. It’s amazing how much time that the lab can suck up. I just looked at my blog and saw my last post was 23rd September. That exercise is coming to some kind of completion at the moment. Actually that’s not true as because it is connected to PDC then...

Microsoft offers a partner program for companies that sell tools and products that either integrate into or complement Microsoft’s developer offerings. This program provides remarkable value. If you are a company that produces a product (or products)...

My friends in the Agile community have succeeded in drilling a concept into my thick skull so deeply that the concept shows up in other things I do.  What is that concept: don't try to build the perfect app.  Build the least complicated app...

You will probably never see an Xbox Fit because Microsoft would never get away with things like Nintendo does with the Wii Fit. You have maybe seen this comic before and if you don't own a Wii Fit you may just laugh at it. But there is a lot of truth...

Two important documents are have been published on TechNet this week. I like the single help file particularly since it’s a very easy way to get all our latest IT Professionals documentation in one location and be able to read it without being connected...

If only eh….the power of Photoshop Hat tip to Core77...

The Embedded Systems Conference will take place in Boston on the week of Oct 26-30. Windows Embedded will be present, more than ever. If you have not yet, register now and come to our sessions and labs that will be presented in Boston. Here is the list...