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 On a Windows XP Professional with XP3 attempts to upgrade/install SQL Server 2008 failed. The correct authentication was not recognized and only a few files were created.Conclusions: First attempt: To upgrade an existing SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (evaluation) ... Nov. 20, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 243 |
 I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009. I was able to spend much of the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: Nov. 20, 2009 09:45 AM EST Reads: 412 |
 I have not seen the stores in person, but from a distance I really, really like what Microsoft has done with its retail presence. Sure it looks vaguely familiar to Apple's stores, but big whoop. The wall to wall screens are brilliant. However, I am now second-guessing whether I'... Nov. 19, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 366 |
 I'm not sure how all this managed to slip by me, but apparently last Friday the Windows Identity Foundation Release Candidate was unleashed on the world. Now keep in mind that this is not the ADFS v2 server, this is the foundational plumbing on which ADFS v2 will run. G... Nov. 17, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 372 |
 (I'm currently in Tokyo, so I'll leave my insights into this news for another time)Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced ... Nov. 17, 2009 12:30 AM EST Reads: 320 |
 The long awaited build of SQL Server Management Studio with support for SQL Azure is available today for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be generally available for the rest of the world as of tomorrow.
The download page can be found here. This support is included as part of th...Nov. 11, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 451 |
 Microsoft has made some fairly substantial changes to the core architecture of Exchange 2010. Given that messaging can only be described as business critical today, it’s no surprise that many new aspects of Exchange 2010 and in particular its ... Nov. 10, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 344 |
 Cloud Storage Studio is a standalone WPF application to manage your Windows Azure storage. You will need to have .Net 3.5 installed on your computer to run this application. Here is the feature list of Cloud Storage Studio (at a high level. Storage account management, Table/Entity mana...Nov. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 484 |
 As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what ...Oct. 31, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 875 |
 Web Page Performance was one of the big topics at the Ajax Experience in Boston this week. Steve Souders - author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites - talked about the top things to look into when analyzing web page performance.Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 634 |
 Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, these dispo...Oct. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 699 |
 Today Amazon released its answer to SQL Azure, the hosted cloud database offered by Microsoft. The newest service form Amazon, the Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS for short, now in beta, makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in th...Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 649 |
 You might be thinking, pfft, I'm never going to need to use Binary Serialization...that's old school. And you might be right, but think about this: Azure Storage charges you by how much you're storing and some aspects of Azure also charge you based on the bandwidth consumed. Do you wan...Oct. 25, 2009 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,149 |
 If you’re a SharePoint person, you of course have the following path burned into your memory forever. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extension\12 Well pretty soon, you can replace that with: C:\Program Files... Oct. 20, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 703 |
 When we all build websites, usually we're concerned with figuring out how we're going to get the major entities into the view. We want to know how we're going to handle the shopping cart or how we're going to get the customer record onto the page, etc. But, one of the little details th...Oct. 2, 2009 12:17 PM EDT Reads: 636 |
 I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically this application. At the Architect Forum I had a chance to talk in more depth about the general application pa...Oct. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 722 |
 Are cloud services about efficiency or negligence? About being able to outsource commodity services and concentrate on core competence or loosing control and risking getting out of compliance? Which IT services can be safely moved to the cloud and which should stay in house? Let’s get ...Sep. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 469 |
 The other day I was running Microsoft's malicious software removal tool and, to my shock and horror, it did not remove all of my ASP.NET applications that make use of ViewState. I'm sure it's just an oversight and Microsoft will be releasing a patch for that soon... if there is one app...Sep. 23, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 569 |
 RIAbiz.com recently discussed the findings of an August 24-25, 2009 Investment News survey conducted on the Twitter habits of the financial-advisory community. Not surprisingly the survey reveals that "a mere 14.9% of financial advisers say they communicate with clients or colleagues ...Sep. 23, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,345 |
 One of the things that I have been loving about being back at Microsoft is working in the Developer Platform team. I have always been a geek, and have this latent developer hiding inside of me. I love designing interesting applications and services, and love to roll some co...Sep. 14, 2009 10:12 AM EDT Reads: 766 |
 It used to be so easy to slam Microsoft. There are the 800lb gorilla with all the money that have done some shady business deals - but that is very much in the past. Today Microsoft keeps doing things that make it hard not to like them. They are going Open Source and being transparent ...Sep. 9, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 947 |
 As the line between browser-based and desktop-based applications blurs, and as approaches for abstracting functionality and information from user interfaces develop, other markets will eventually merge with the currently separately identifiable RIA market. Furthermore, as the Internet ...Sep. 3, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,115 |
 When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project, one of the first things that you might notice is that you get an AccountController which takes advantage of the ASP.NET membership provider to allow your site to automatically do forms-based authentication right from the very beginning. This i...Jul. 22, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 837 |
 Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex...Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 23,507 Replies: 5 |
Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be re... Dec. 25, 2007 07:30 PM EST Reads: 24,616 |
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