I just returned from Phoenix where I participated in a panel discussion at the 26th Annual Medical Communications and Health Reporting Conference sponsored by the American Medical Association. The topic for the panel discussion was "Technology Trends: The Next Generation of Medical…

Tina takes Laura to the dentist to help her get over her fears. They explore the cool technology that helps Dr. David Richardson and his staff every day and of course goof off.

Over in building 50 there's a secret room. It's never been shown in public before. What is this room for? Testing audio devices. It is a special room where it's completely silent and the walls have been treated to minimize sound wave reflections. After giving us a tour Charlie Owen, PM on…

See a demo of an application for tracking down Xbox 360s in retail stores in the US using the Windows Communication Foundation, the Windows Workflow Foundation and the Windows Presentation Foundation. 

Today we added a minor feature to the tagging feature in 10. We integrated a few of the major tagging sites out there. If you now click on a tag, for example "XBox", you will see the list of entries on the site tagged as XBox, but now at the top you'll see a More section. We currently link…

Another look into one of our most loved internet phenomenons. NOTE: No rednecks were hurt during the filming of this segment.

After a review of the three general situations that would cause you to create you own custom membership provider Patrick walks you through the creation of a very primitive membership provider and see it in action.  Also featured in this screencast is a quick look at the membership database…

Visual Studio 2005 has many new added security features to help you the developer create a secure applications with little effort.  The permissions calculator coupled with the ability to emulate security zones found in code access security allow you to test your applications in a simulated…

Do you remember the early days of software development? I can recall working on teams where we had no source control, no project management, and no process whatsoever. It is a wonder that we ever accomplished anything. In the summer of 1998 I went to a training class on UML and the Rational…

"Oughtness"? "Isness"? What?We recently caught up with Anders Vinberg, Architect and one of the leaders of Microsoft's Management infrastructure team (technologies like MOM, WU, etc) and wordsmith(he makes up words to describe complex systems). Also present was Architect Raymond…