Silverlight Developer's Journal

Before I head off for my favorite holiday, I wanted to send out an update on Wavemaker. Our big news of course centers around the release of Wavemaker 6. This release was over a year in the making and represents the first open source cloud development platform on the market (hook... (more)

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk.   I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done. To get started you need: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Silverlight 4 Beta  (which inclu... (more)

Last week at Microsoft PDC we launched our Systems Management as a Platform offering with a few of the services going into private beta. Now you can actually see a quick demo of one of these services and read some of the media coverage. You can see the product demo if you watch t... (more)

CFOs in Technology on Ulitzer Microsoft’s CFO Chris Liddell (pictured), 51, a New Zealand import, is bored and wants a better job. So he’s “looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO” – according to a statement out of Microsoft – and will ... (more)

Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party compone... (more)

If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a position of having to migrate a lot o... (more)

Recently I installed the Beta 2 version of "Geneva", or ADFS 2.0. All of my machines are now Windows 7 machines, including just about all of my VHDs and virtual machines. The only time I use Win2k8 R2 is when the product I'm installing specifically requires me to do that. So when... (more)

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that I'm not always just about .NET - I'm a pretty huge iPhone guy as well. In fact, I'm a fan of all technologies and programming languages that don't suck, regardless of who makes them or on what platform they run. At... (more)

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Microsoft Developer Microsoft has put out public betas of Office 2010, the SharePoint-dependent Office Professional Plus 2010 with its browser-based, Google Docs-offsetting Office Web Apps for business (this time with editing in Word and OneNote), Visio 2010 and Project 2010, bo... (more)

Microsoft Developer 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) ... (more)

Microsoft Developer 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: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now in... (more)

Microsoft Developer's Journal There are some Windows users who do not know about the slipstream. This is actually a fix, upgrade or enhancement to the operating system without creating new version to identify its changes. This is a quick and easy way to get specified updates. It... (more)

Microsoft Developer's Journal System 32, a hidden file usually located in the C:\ drive, is the most vital part of your computer. The system 32 file is responsible for proper functioning of your system. This file is generally hidden to prevent any unintentional or accidental alt... (more)

AccessData will be participating in IQPC’s 8th eDiscovery conference in New York, December 7–9, and will be showcasing the soon to be released AccessData eDiscovery 3.0. Built on forensically sound Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) technology, AD eDiscovery is an end-to-end, in-house sol... (more)

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Speaking at Microsoft Corp.'s Annual Shareholder Meeting today, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer highlighted the strength of the company's execution over the past year, announced record sales figures for Windows 7, and de... (more)

Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer 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 a... (more)

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced a collection of online services that can be attached to its Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, including a new Sites Service built on the Windows Azure platform, a n... (more)

LOS ÁNGELES, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Durante el segundo día de la Professional Developers Conference 2009 de Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ha destacado las nuevas oportunidades y recursos para que los desarrolladores creen aplicaciones que se aventajen del poder de Windows y de ... (more)