We recently had a conversation with Ales Holecek, Director of Development for the Windows Shell team (Raymond Chen, the famous Win32 blogger, works for him...).  Ales spends most of the time answering a single, broad question: What is the Windows Vista shell? Of course,…

Learn how to add transaction support to your database unit tests in Team Edition for Database Professionals in order to better manage the database state during your test run. Learn more at: http://blogs.msdn.com/sachinreSachin RekhiProgram ManagerTeam Edition for Database Professionals

Next week I'm off to Toronto, Canada, to make a keynote address at the 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine. The Congress is being coordinated by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto and brings together several prestigious groups including the Society for the Internet in…

Learn just how you can go about creating your own custom test conditions for use with database unit testing in the upcoming Team Edition for Database Professionals. This video will walk you through the steps necessary to code, deploy, and use a custom test condition. More info is available at:…

There’s nothing we lust after more than electronics we can fit into our pockets; they exude a cool factor that is more pervasive than most of the things we squander our money on. HTC has long been providing fabulous Windows Mobile handsets, both in the Smartphone and Pocket PC varieties, and their…

Greetings All - Nic here - coming to you from (hazy) downtown Singapore as the newest addition to the 10 global team! Yay!Wait a minute. Did you say Singapore?? I sure did! The 10 global phenomenon is extending it's reach across the Pacific ocean and into the future (Singapore is 13 hours…

Have you answered the dreaded standardization question on languages? If you have had to answer it you have entered into the zone where religious fervor meets programming language. Some people like VB, other people like C#, which one is best? Who can say for sure. I’m going to stay neutral, but…

Emre Kiciman is a researcher in MSR focusing on solving hard problems in the field of automated systems management of large scale distributed systems. Basically, he works on algorithms and systems that can be used to understand how systems are working, independent of complexity, by…

Occasionally we aren’t on the couch in front of our Xbox 360 (for serious you guys), but that doesn’t mean we aren’t thinking about all of that gaming goodness. Naturally we crave a way to interact with the Xbox Live community when while we’re away. The Xbox Live Pipeline has launched to try and…

We’ve all been witness to the disconnect between the people and their leadership, and nowhere is this divide more apparent than between Internet users and content providers. Digital music piracy, DRM-crippled television, and overpriced underwhelming motion pictures have left their marks on all of…