Rory

I recently had the chance to meet up with Kam VedBrat, lead program manager of Expression Web. Before working on Expression Web, though, Kam made his way through quite a few other divisions here at The Firm. Along the way, he picked up quite a bit of knowledge about the new bits driving Vista…

Mike Calligaro came to Microsoft thirteen years ago to help build a supercomputer. But, two days before his arrival, the project evaporated, leaving Mike on the payroll but without a position.   This isn't an unheard of situation for new hires, but Mike's story, detailing all the…

Brian Cross is, like, really smart. That's what I've decided.   He woke up one day and felt like building a robot...   ...so he did.   He's come along way from his early attempts, and he now has multiple hardware platforms which all tie into a single brain. That brain is a…

If you could see me now, I'm a giddy, happy, silly little niner. I just learned about something at Microsoft that happens every year called "TechFest". It's a convention for Microsoft Research, meant to provide a glimpse of what goes on in what I now think of as the Area 51 of…

I expected a nice little interview when I went over to visit Doug Purdy in building 42. What I got was the strangest bit of Channel Ninery that I've experienced so far in my several short weeks on the job. In this video, you'll watch as Doug Purdy assembles a meeting in the style of buliding 42.…

Mike Nash is a corporate vice president in charge of Windows client operating systems product management. Previously, he ran the security team that created the new security systems and features in XPSP2. Charles got a chance to spend some time with him recently to have a very candid conversation…

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day, captured here in its fourth iteration, is a one day event all about developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. The day is put together by the community for the community: there are no Microsoft speakers…

Expression Blend is the product that will directly bring designers and developers together. A dev can put together a UI using Visual Studio and then ship it off to a designer who can then de-uglify it using Blend. With Blend, a designer can actually load a VS solution file, so the integration…

EDIT: I've temporarily removed the Download file because it seems it's still propogating out to our servers. I'll have the link up as soon as it's ready (still new here ). Hey, all - Rory here. I wanted to have a show on Channel 9, and after thinking about it for roughly thirty seconds,…

In this, the second in a two part screencast on data synching, I show you how to use RDA (Remote Data Access) to sync data between a Windows Mobile device and a SQL Server instance. Also, if you haven't watched Part One, then shame on you. You really, really need to watch Part One before Part Two…