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There are some fascinating aspects of language that cross into the practical needs of software products. One of them is the field that that the terminologists occupy. There is even an alias within Microsoft that I used to belong to for terminology issues. I say "used to" because I realized what I was interested in was conversations about and behind word choices, and the alias had reached a very practical pinnacle which mainly amounted to someone asking What's the word for ________? and having p... [read more]

Just a reminder that I'll be at TechEd interviewing customers and handing out the developer documentation survey. You can opt to take the online survey instead:  Visual Studio and .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey. Thanks for participating! -- Kathleen 

Tech-Ed 2008 Developers, June 2-6, Orlando, FL. I’ll be giving a talk on the Enterprise Library (DVP02-TLC). I’ll be also hanging out in the exhibition areas (mainly, Process & Project Management (DVP- VSTS 2008)). CAST 2008 , July 14-17, Toronto, ON. I look forward to good interaction with testing experts and thought leaders from around the world. TechReady7, July 28-Aug 1, Seattle, WA. I’ll do a couple of talks on the Enterprise Library and agility. Agile 2008, Aug 4-8, Toronto, ON –... [read more]

RemyP announced Permalinking baby! It is no longer necessary to pass streaming:/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv as initParams to your Silverlight application, you can directly point to the WMV file in Silverlight Streaming using the following HTTP permalink: http://silverlight.services.live.com/accountId/fileSet/fileName.wmv, where: accountId is your Silverlight Streaming account ID; check the Manage Account page to find it fileSet is the folder name where your video file is stored; you ... [read more]

Over at SLS RemyP announced a new robust uploader If you are using Silverlight 2 Beta 1, next time you go to http://silverlight.live.com to upload a video, you will be able to enjoy the completely overhauled upload stack. The tip of the iceberg is the window that allows you to pause the upload and resume it at a later time. More importantly the uploader supports resumability so if the connection drops for whatever reason, it will keep on trying without loss of data, and without forcing you t... [read more]

  Scott Hanselman has a great article on success and the measurement of it.  Without a doubt, the best part of the post is this:   "I'm definitely not an authority figure on software development. I'll go so far as to put words in the mouth of Martin Fowler (we'll see if he comments), but from my interactions with him, I'd venture to say he wouldn't consider himself an authority either. He's a traveler on the path, as are we. He thinks, shares, asks good questions and starts i... [read more]

If you have ever thought that the famous if(Page_ClientValidate("validationGroup")) {/*JS Code*/}  and myValidator.ValidationGroup = "validationGroup"; are sure not enough client side capabilities in ASP.NET validators, you are right. The list of client side API for ASP.NET Validators can be found on this MSDN page "ASP.NET Validation in Depth": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479045.aspx#aspplusvalid_properties Look for subtitle: "Client-Side... [read more]

The 2007 Microsoft Office system is a powerful platform for building role-based, collaborative, and analytical applications that extend the reach of line-of-business systems and back-end applications to information workers across an organization. Office Business Applications (OBAs) is the general term used to describe solutions that integrate the core capabilities of backend business systems with the widely deployed and used business productivity services and applications that constitute the Mic... [read more]

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For a change, I won't post about all the positive reviews that our LINQ book received.Today, I wanted to post about a negative review that has been published recently on Amazon.com. This review is interesting because it's completely different than the others. It gives the book a rating of 2 stars on 5.Here is the content of the review:LINQ with no actionI am disappointed with this book - it did not meet my expectations. I found many examples and it is really hard to use them because the author h... [read more]

Well, sorry for not posting last months, and happy to continue posting here :) Wonder this post should be about what? Aha, right, about context-awareness, and, specifically, about one of the important channels to achieve it on Windows platform, aha, right, through SideShow for Windows :) 16 month left since release of beta version of Managed API and SDK for Windows SideShow. SideShow team is excited to present final release - they can't wait for first gadgets you'll make for this new runtime! ... [read more]

Прошло 16 месяцев с момента выпуска бета-версии управляемых API для Windows SideShow. Команда Windows SideShow рада представить финальный релиз - мы не можем дождаться, когда появятся первые написанные вами гаджеты, основанные на новом Runtime! Возникли вопросы? Задайте их в форуме Windows SideShow Development forum. Ждем первые гаджеты в Windows Live Gallery! SDK устанавливает среду выполнения и компоненты, требуемые для разработки гаджетов и их запуска в среде Windows SideShow. Вы можете нап... [read more]

Love. Love...   -Mithun Dhar

Прошло 16 месяцев с момента выпуска бета-версии управляемых API для Windows SideShow. Команда Windows SideShow рада представить финальный релиз - мы не можем дождаться, когда появятся первые написанные вами гаджеты, основанные на новом Runtime! Возникли вопросы? Задайте их в форуме Windows SideShow Development forum . Ждем первые гаджеты в Windows Live Gallery ! SDK устанавливает среду выполнения и компоненты, требуемые для разработки гаджетов и их запуска в среде Windows SideShow. Вы можете нап... [read more]

For the next release of adapter pack, we are adding 2 new adapters -- Oracle EBS and SQL. In addition, we are also enhancing support for the existing OracleDB adapter. We are planning to add support for the following:           -       UDTs           -       Table Types          &nbs... [read more]

在 Expression Web 2 中加入豐富的 PHP 開發支援，請看： https://www.microsoft.com/expression/news-press/newsletter/2008-04/Article01.aspx

Jeff Atwood has one of his best posts in months that was inspired by Alastair Rankine's post "Blogging Horror" explaining why he's unsubscribed from Jeff's blog. I too, have been less compelled to read Jeff's blog lately, but he's an excellent writer and he's consistent, so I read it at least a few times a week. Kudos to Jeff for keeping up the pace and for inspiring conversation. Alastair says: "In other words, Atwood seems to be setting himself up as an authority figure on ... [read more]

In my last post, I have mentioned of creating Flickr app with Asp.net MVC. In recent update I have modified it with Asp.net MVC Preview 3. You can find a general reference about the project here. But in this post, I will say, what are the changes due to the new release and where to start especially. In previous release of ASP.net MVC you had RenderView, which lets you render your UI right from the controller and controller classes are with void return type, now with new release this is slightl... [read more]

If you watched Saturday Night Live way back when, you might have remembered the Mike Myers skit involving Simon, the one who was always calling the viewer a "cheeky monkey". I was thinking about this the other day when Paul asked over in the Microsoft VOLT user's community: I added the Ol Chiki glyphs to a font (U+1C50..U+1C7F) as well as others newly assigned code points in the Unicode 5.1 standard.The glyphs are definitely present in the TTF file (I checked with TTX and Microsoft's Font Valid... [read more]

.NET A Brief History Of C# Style Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Checking out the Source Analysis for C# TurbsoSprite: A Simple 2D Sprite Engine for .NET Framework 2.0 Sculpture - a .NET open source Model-Driven Development code generation framework Web Speed Up Your Website - By Example Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay The first thing you should do after setting up an IIS7-server Debug Opening a Crash Dump File (Autom... [read more]

Somehow I managed to miss this one (thanks to Erland for the pointer). Folks have been asking for access to docs on TDS since before I was involved in SQL Server, well now you can peruse(all 124 pages) to your hearts content. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc448435.aspx

Full story at the SMH ... If I were responsible for this, I'd not be happy for a number of reasons: If they were using Word 2007, they could have inspected the document and stripped out personally identifiable metadata and the like, before saving as a PDF (via Word) I think there is an ethical question of why this needed to be submitted anonymously. Was a certain web based document creation tool not up to the task of creating a formatting intensive document like this: Clerical err... [read more]

Trulia launched their new home searching tool dubbed "Snapshot" as a new and unique way to search for real estate. I have to say, this site IS ABSOLUTELY SICK. For you non-Gen Xers and younger, that's a good thing. I would say it's "disgusting" but only post Gen Yers would get it. Seriously. UX people - take some notes, because you're about to get schooled on how to change the game when it comes to building an interface. First, enter a city/state. Okay, very simple. That alone is alluring - sim... [read more]

Gurpreet Singh who is a developer in my team published last week a couple of articles on how to extend IIS Manager 7: 1) The first one talks about how to write an IIS Manager extension in general and walks you through the process using Visual Studio: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/441/understanding-ui-extension-authoring/ 2) The second one shows how to extend the IIS Reports feature in Admin Pack to add your own report to it and shows this using Log Parser: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/464/wal... [read more]

Today we are releasing a very cool feature that lots of customers have really been asking for, URL Rewrite Module is now available for download at: Download the x86 CTP version for IIS 7.0: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1691 Download the x64 CTP version for IIS 7.0: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1692 I'm pretty happy about this release not only because its a great feature that many of us have been waiting for, but also bec... [read more]