“Mais pourquoi est-il aussi méchant ???” – Vous vous souvenez sans doute de ce slogan des années ‘80 pour la boisson Orangina Rouge, avec des oranges sanguines…   Alors on y va ? On tombe un peu les masques ?   Chiche ?      ...

この機能の名称を思い出すのにちょっとした調査が必要でしたが、コマンド ウィンドウを開く必要のない Visual Studio での機能名は「コマンド ライン」でした。 テスト ケースの検索を開始して 5 分と経たないうちに思い当たりました。「そうだ、[ツール] - [オプション] - [環境] - [キーボード] でコマンドの名前を見つければいいんだ」ってね。 もっとびっくりしたのは、まだこれについてのワンポイントを投稿していなかったということです。この機能についてはあちこちで述べてきましたが、ついに...

Since the launch of BizSpark in November, we've hit the road and spent time in several cities in the US. We participated at the New York New Tech Meetup in New York City on 11/11/2008, where I got to present to pitch 'BizSpark' to 300 entrepreneurs, alongside...

Just a quick note to all you fans of MAPI out there. Based on some discussions we had a while ago, the folks in Office have been putting a LOT of time and effort into improving the MAPI material, and bringing it up-to-date for Office 2007. Well, they’ve...

We're pleased to announce that our next update will be available later today. This update affects the Live Desktop, Live Mesh for Mac, and Live Mesh for Mobile. We will release an update for the Live Mesh for Windows software next week. See below for...

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and architect document and records management solutions based on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. At Course Completion After completing this course,...

Hello everybody, Let me introduce myself, my name is Lukasz Chodorski and I am a new SDE in the Visual C++ Libraries Team. In this post I would like to present to you the CTaskDialog class which wraps the Windows API* in the MFC library. What actually...

The MasterCard® Easy Savings Program is a convenient savings program for MasterCard BusinessCard credit and signature debit cardholders. Through an alliance with Microsoft, Easy Savings members enjoy rebates on small business solutions purchased...

I don't want to date you but I do think you should get your cat something for the holidays (whichever holidays you celebrate, or even if you are like me and don't really celebrate anything but like giving and receiving the gifts and the smell of evergreen)....

Hello all - I am back after taking a long break from blogging. A lot has happened since my last blog. I moved over from the Windows Driver Framework team, and joined the Specialized Devices and Application (SDA) Web Services team. Its been quite a drastic...

I'll be dropping by the Last.fm Hack Day on Sunday 14th (starts at 10am I believe). There are prizes for the best all-new Last.fm app built with their API . I'm tempted to enter my very own Silverlight Last.fm application (see right) that I built in 20mins...

Most peculiar mama (whoa)....

Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) has announced the availability of three tools that help developers interoperate with Open XML documents. They are: A free plug-in for Firefox to translate Open XML documents to HTML An update to the Open XML...

Deployment Reviews is a process to check a host for security settings, mostly those affect the applications that are hosted on that. A technet webcast has been scheduled to reveal an automated tool to check for deployment security settings. The webcast...

Liverpool is holding their first BarCamp this weekend and I’m pleased to say I’ll be there to represent Microsoft. We were kindly invited by Thom and the team to sponsor and we’ve been able to do so with the help of my colleagues in Redmond (thanks Karl...

Not the most compelling of product names but Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 is almost due to be released to customers. The original Communicator Mobile client allowed you to interact through IM and presence with your co-workers and any organisation or public...

A special site is available to get at the whitepapers for SQL Server 2008. You can find that here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/learning/whitepapers.mspx . And here are a few of my personal favorites: Performance and Scale http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_perfandscale.mspx...

I noticed that LinkedIn has released their new search platform. From LinkedIn's Esteban Kozak's blog we read: I am writing today to announce the full release of LinkedIn’s new search platform to over 31 million LinkedIn users. The new search platform...

Today’s Office OFFline comic was comic was inspired by a tweet from mike_elgan . Thanks, Mike! So, what do you think of the new look? Reviews from people I trust have been mixed, so I’m hoping you can help me decide. Should I go back to the old look,...

Best Practice Recommendation In your WCF service, never let an exception propagate outside the service boundary without managing it. 2 Alternatives then : Either you manage the exception inside the service boundary and never propagate it outside Or you...

I can think of three or four realistic first-person shooters that might already fill this niche. There are probably more... Reportedly, the army has had a great need for virtual training aids and initially wanted to get videogame training materials out...

As part of our ongoing site walk-though process, I’m pleased to announce the re-launch of several key developer entry pages: · Learn · Download · Support Each of these pages has been scrubbed for bad links and content, then laid out in a fashion that...

On the web, links are the coin of the realm and as such, it is probably one of the most talked about subjects in webmaster blogs and at search conferences. In the last few weeks, there have been a few blog posts and “link” related product launches that...

On my way to a meeting, but first: this top of the hat to Steve Clayton. As Steve posted and Tweeted today (you can see that for yourself here ), Hugh MacLeod is a Comic Genius. (More on his work briefly in a pastpost and on his blog/ site at http://www.gapingvoid.com/...

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