The web has been an amazing success and one reason why is because of the cachng it does.  One benefit of building RESTful services with WCF is that you can take advantage of the same caching infrastructure that the web does.  How do you do it?  Just sit back and watch this episode to hear from Rob Bagby on all the detail.

A lot of people seem to want to make a certain tab or control on the Ribbon active programmatically. It makes sense that a developer would want to select the custom tab if the controls that are most useful for the current document are all on that tab. This video goes in-depth about this programming question.[Click to read the full post ]

IE 8 Beta 2 is now available!

John Hrvatin, Program Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Tools sits down with me to discuss at a high level the new additions to IE 8's developer tools (aka Dev Tools). These include JavaScript performance profiling, CSS profiling and formatting exploration. And, there's more. This is a conversation that addresses more than what's new. We also tackle some harder questions...[Click to read the full post ]

A simple demo of building a "Hello World" application with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then deploying it via ClickOnce to a clean Windows XP machine using the .NET Client Profile rather than the full .NET Framework.
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Tune in the learn a bit about the next release of WHS, what new features devs will get to program and meet some of the people who passionately drive WHS evolution. As always, the conversation is non-linear with a splash of fun and an extra helping of humanity. Windows Home Server is a great product and these folks are part of the reason why.[Click to read the full post ]

In this weekly WF/WCF Screencast video, Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight takes 9 minutes walks you through how to host your WCF service in IIS.[Click to read the full post ]

In this video, Michael Lehman talks with Eugenio Pace about the new Multi-tenant Data Access Software + Services Blueprint.   

The Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint, part of the Software-plus-Services Blueprint program, provides guidance on writing a SQL Server based, single instance, multi-tenant data access layer similar to that used in LitwareHR sample application (SQL Server version).

If you have the S+S Blueprints manager installed you can get this Blueprint by updating from the RSS feed.

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When you navigate your browser to website A is website A the only site you're visiting? IE 8 Beta 2 is almost out of the oven. Given this, we of course want to find out all about it straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Enter General Manager of Team Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, and Program Manager Andy Zeigler. The topic of this particular conversation (other IE8 interviews are in the pipeline) is a complex and important one: User Privacy and what IE 8 will do to inform users and protect their personal information when surfing the Internet.[Click to read the full post ]

In Visual Studio 2008, when you open a Microsoft Office 2003 project, by default it starts the project migration wizard if you have the 2007 Microsoft Office system installed on your development computer. In other words, Visual Studio automatically tries to upgrade older projects to the version of Office that you have installed.

If you need to maintain the 2003 version of the project, you can turn off this default setting.[Click to read the full post ]

It doesn't take much code to add a command to a shortcut menu in Excel, but the menu objects have strange names so it's not intuitive, to me at least. The trickiest part is just sorting out how it's supposed to work, because it seems like it should be different from adding buttons to toolbars, but it really looks like that's what you're doing.[Click to read the full post ]

In this week’s edition of the PDC Countdown (only 66 days to go), Mike and Jennifer host the marketing manager of the conference who talks about all of the great opportunities to win, win, win!  Trips to LA, tickets to the Dodgers or Lakers, a movie premiere, or a trip down the red carpet at the Emmy’s could be yours.  Or you could design the PDC t-shirt that will be handed out to thousands of attendees!! Wow, you could go down in PDC history if you’re the winner! 

Plus, I suppose we also need to talk about content and sessions . . . . so in a double whammy line-up, the creative director of the PDC appears on the show to discuss the new Agenda Builder and My Sessions user experience on the PDC web site.[Click to read the full post ]

In this short interview, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

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-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community[Click to read the full post ]

Kurt Kennett from the Windows Devices Core team gives us a quick video that demonstrates a useful debugging trick: recovering the source of a “jump to NULL” error on Windows CE.   This is a very useful trick for debugging programs that use function pointers.

First, Kurt shows how to develop a sample application on the Device Emulator that will produce such a crash.  Then he shows how to get our precious callstack back!

The future is coming... every day moves us a little bit closer to "Oslo" but how should you prepare?  In this episode Jon Flanders and I discuss how you can prepare for "Oslo" by leveraging services and workflows today.

PhotoSynth is a technology that automatically combines 2D photos into an immersive 3D environment.

With the official release of Photosynth, we catch up with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, one of the Photosynth architects to talk about the technology and team that powers


More Photosynth love:
- Laura Foy's 3-minute overview on Photosynth
- Nic Fillingham's Photosynth Shutter Speed episode
- Max Zuckerman interviews Noah Snavely, who originally created the Photosynth project while a student at the University of Washington

Also, for an in depth look into the technologies addressed here, see the Photosynth Going Deep from 2006 with Blaise.

The Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services and devices. It supports any kind of data type and any kind of data store. The framework was designed to be transfer protocol independent and to allow the developers to map any kind of network topology.[Click to read the full post ]

Ok, vi har gått genom grunderna i powershell och hur vi utvecklar cmdlets, men hur skall vi använda det... Och hur kan vi integrera powershell och mmc så att admin dudes kan få en enhetlig användarupplevelse samtidigt som vi får scriptbarhet.[Click to read the full post ]

Ny screencast som förklarar hur vi kan jobba med powershell som utvecklare och arkitekter.[Click to read the full post ]