Do you remember when having a mobile phone was a big deal? I can still recall the time when I bought my first “Car Phone” as we called it. It came with a big box that you put under the seat and worked only in the car. It was pretty cool. Then later I got a big phone that I carried with me on…

Microsoft's answer to the iPod has officially launched.  I stopped by Major Nelson's office yesterday and got the chance to put my hands on a Zune.  I must say that the wi-fi sharing of songs and digital photos is pretty cool.  I didn't get the chance to check out the integrated FM…

Join Bill Staples, Product Unit Manager for IIS 7, and Jeffrey Snover, MMC and Windows PowerShell Architect, as they discuss the new features of Windows Server “Longhorn”, IIS 7 and Windows PowerShell.  See how much easier it is to manage an IIS 7 single box or an IIS 7 web farm with Windows…

Having kids changes your life. I doubt that any parent would disagree with that statement. Apparently having children has gotten Bill Gates to think a lot more about education.Bill says that the US education system needs work. No kidding!To no ones surprise Bill's kids are in private school.…

I was glancing at Scott Guthrie's blog and saw he mentioned one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.  The project is called Script# and it is written by Nikhil Kothari.  Script# So what is it?  It is a c# complier that generates JavaScript.  He goes on to mention why it…

In this show, we take a look at some more Windows PowerShell Cmdlets and how we can use Windows PowerShell to easily manage Windows Vista. Jeffrey Snover and I have written up a blog post on this show that is available on the Windows Vista Team blog.  You can see the commands used in this…

Full-Text search allows you to save large portions of text - even Microsoft Word documents, or other file formats - into your database and perform complex queries based on this textual data while expecting great performance. This lesson demonstrates how to set up Full-Text search paying particular…

This video expands on the topic of Stored Procedures which was introduced several lessons ago. In this video we explain the basic syntax to create and update stored procedures, using input and output parameters, return values, declaring variables and adding other T-SQL programming elements into you…

Explore the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista and watch a demonstration to learn how you can operate them to open, close, and use programs; navigate around the screen; explore the Web; and create documents. You’ll also get some tips on how to edit documents, improve recognition of…

If you've used PHP, you may have had the pleasure of using MySQL, an open-source SQL engine.  Jeffery McManus has pointed out a few helper points for problems he has had with the .Net framework and MySQL.  The two main points are Dates and unsigned integers and he explains why…