You may have already been busy trying different new fancy features of SharePoint 2010. Time to try something really hardcore for IT Pro! Remote Blob Storage is always what people are asking for – to put blob objects outside of SQL Server database, directly...

As I mentioned, over the past few months I’ve been working on a number of activities related to the Windows Azure Platform.  In particular, I’ve been working with several partners as we prepared for the PDC’09 conference.  While we were preparing...

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The December 2009 Optional Updates are now available on the ECE for Windows® Embedded Standard 2009 and/or Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0 and Service Pack 3. The updates include: The syssetup.inf...

Recently, a customer had asked us if it was possible to develop and debug a VB/C# extension with Visual Studio 2010 (and the 2010 SDK), but still have a binary that also works with VS 2008. This is indeed possible, but it requires some hacking of your...

If there is data on your PC that you need to protect, BitLocker encryption can help to protect your files with encryption. (As noted on the Windows 7 site, BitLocker "helps keep everything from documents to passwords safer by encrypting the entire...

We've heard loud and clear that the WPF designer performance in Beta 2 was unacceptable.  Well, in a good kind of way, we knew that before we shipped Beta 2.  This was one case where our performance tests were telling us the right thing. ...

Perhaps you are new to Active Directory – Rights Management Services and you have yet to see a demonstration of the technology. We recently posted a short screencast video on the Windows Server 2008 “How Do I?” Videos site that demonstrates a simple scenario...

Have you ever wondered which date format SQL Server uses for default datetime parameter values ? Is it month-day-year, day-month-year, year-month-day ? Does it depend on SET options ? As of Sql Server 2008, it's actually the language SET option of the...

Поддержка всех версий Windows 2000 и Windows XP SP 2 заканчивается 13 Июля 2010 года. Данная дата является фактором естественного прогресса в поддержке данных продуктов. После данной даты заканчивается общедоступная поддержка данных продуктов, это значит,...

Hi everyone, I intend to blog about how to best use the tsql datatypes, including all kinds of datetime types, floating point, numeric, and of course strings. Strings being almost a whole topic on its own, codepage, unicode, sorting, matching, hashing....

Some of the most disastrous code usually takes the following form try { //some code } catch { } Silencing exceptions is almost never good but sometime the problem is minor and you don’t want want to blow up and call for an exit. However wouldn’t it be...

Today, remembering the steps and some solutions made to manage security policies or accounts, I realized that when you make the underlying platform better and smarter , the overall ecosystem moves forward. Looping about how to Manage and Sync Secure Data...

If you need to read the values that the user entered in a text box before the record is committed to filter the possible values for the second text box then first you should set the autopostback property of the AxBoundField to true. Also you need to set...

NETBOOK OFICIAL FUTBOL CLUB BARCELONA Built with the Windows 7 Catalan LIP already setup is this really cool looking Windows 7 netbook. Cannot see my local team (Leeds United) having there own netbook any time soon. Rob Technorati Tags: FC Barcelona ,...

Hi, Just a comment about my pausecrawl powershell script . Although it seems clear the pausecrawl command pauses an active crawl for the content source; I get last week some questions about it. On the other hand, the PauseBackgroundActivity pauses all...

Last week, during the MSDN Roadshow stop in Reston, VA, I helped my fellow presenter Dani Diaz get a wayward Fiddler window back on-screen, after it appeared off-screen when he opened the app during a demo. Folks on hand wanted to know what keyboard shortcut...

Our “Rogues Gallery” is a collection of common, visual patterns exhibiting poorly-behaved multithreaded applications. In this post, I’ll introduce a new pattern: too much pressure on the garbage collector (GC). When an application creates too many objects,...

Michael has done a great job introducing Dryad. Now, let us take a look at what DryadLINQ is. DryadLINQ provides a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. The most unique feature of DryadLINQ is its complete integration with a traditional...

This presentation, which combines some of the new features in PowerPoint 2010 as well as a tasteful and integrated application of animation, provides five rules for matching your message and your presentation.   Office PowerPoint 2010 "Five...

A new TechNet blog has launched for tech-savvy business decision makers at ISVs, web services and web design companies interested in Windows Azure Platform, Windows web platform and learning how to grow their business by partnering with Microsoft. The...

It was driving me nuts to right-click/run as admin each time I needed in Windows 7/2008R2. So I tried to figure if there was a shortcut. A quick search did not find anything, so I just played with it a bit. Apparently Ctrl-Shift-Enter allows you to run...

David Ikeda and I have updated the SQL Server 2008 MCM Pre-reading list based on the last training rotation we conducted last October. You can download the PDF here. As a seasoned SQL Server professional, ideally you'll already have read some, if not...

It has been a really long time since I wrote Microsoft Outlook VBA code. But when a customer last week asked me if there was a way to write some VBA code to move selected Inbox items to an Archive folder, I felt right at home. Here's what I came up with...

Recently I thought I would check out the charting controls in the Silverlight Toolkit. I’d been meaning to for awhile, but I was distracted by other tasks such as writing the documentation for the Silverlight 4 beta release. Well, those docs have gone...