12 April 2010 0 Comments

Play Fight Night with Coheed and Cambria

Legendary musicians Coheed and Cambria will be on Xbox LIVE today, April 12, to play Xbox LIVE Gold Members in Fight Night Round 4 .   Chris Pennie and Travis Stever of the group will be on Xbox LIVE starting at 2 P.M.

9 March 2010 0 Comments

Play Modern Warfare 2 with Abstract360

What’s that strange image? It’s the logo of popular gaming website Abstract360.com.

26 February 2010 0 Comments

Play the DualShockers Team February 28

Finish the month off with a bang (literally) and play the team from the DualShockers website  in our Community Playdate, Sunday, February 28.

25 January 2010 0 Comments

Configure your server to host RIA Service app using Windows Authentication

If you are using the WCF RIA Services PDC bits and your app is using windows authentication with ASP.NET built-in user management system, make sure you do the following steps to your hosting server: 1. Open IIS manager, browse to the vitual directory of your app, disable all other authentication modes except Windows Authentication mode 2. Set the application pool identity to NETWORK SERVICE 3. Browse to the physical folder for your app, make NETWORK SERVICE have full control over that folder  

15 December 2009 0 Comments

“Setup.exe is not a valid win32 application”

Say what? After inserting what looks to be a perfectly good DVD disc into the reader and trying to run the install for Expression Web 3, you see the error message to the left on the screen. What does it mean?

27 September 2009 0 Comments

SQL programming mistake #12

I would like to add another thing to my previous list . And that is the mistake of not properly understanding how to use correctly create the WHERE clause. I came to think about this when I read this which also includes a few good tips on how to rewrite your query to work more efficient

16 September 2009 0 Comments

Highlighted Roles

Here are this week’s roles we’re particularly looking to fill – please email cssjobs@microsoft.com if you have any questions. Thanks! SDET  - North Carolina (job code #700568) SDE – North Carlonia (job code #701467) Workforce Management Config Specialist  - Issaquah, WA (job code #702318) Support Engineer – Texas (job code #702846) .NET PFE – Washington, DC (job code #702769) Tools Program Manager – Issaquah, WA (job code #702494)

15 September 2009 0 Comments

Link and display two SharePoint calendar from SharePoint Designer

Click here to Link and display two calendars in SharePoint Designer and after this here are the steps to format the list data. Firstly, we were getting the xml in the “Modified By”. Here is the screen shot which shows  the same :- We have click on the icon on right hand site as presented in the following image :- We will get the “Date Field” selected “Modified By” in the first combo

11 September 2009 0 Comments

Saturday and Sunday

Sitting around the house on the weekend wondering what to do? Well, on Saturday, September 12, we’ll be hosting a Game with Developers event with the folks behind the multiplayer madness that is Section 8 , from 6PM to Midnight ET

4 September 2009 0 Comments

One way of executing the daily stand-up

I think the daily stand-up is one of the most important parts that makes a team work well together and avoid surprises. But just because you have these daily meetings it does not guarantee that they’re useful. A few anti-patterns I’ve seen in meetings are when people say things like ” I’m working on some stuff ” or ” I’m still working on item 42 “

31 August 2009 0 Comments

Exchange 2007 Webcasts for Client Access and Web Services

Want to learn more about Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 then Support WebCasts  are way to go.

27 August 2009 0 Comments

Charlotte Hosts DigiGirlz Camps

Earlier this month our Charlotte campus hosted another DigiGirlz camp! From Microsoft’s DigiGirlz website: ” Microsoft is proud to offer technology programs specifically for youth. One of our signature programs, DigiGirlz High Tech Camp for girls, works to dispel stereotypes of the high-tech industry. We continue to look for opportunities to give young people a chance to experience, firsthand, what it is like to develop cutting-edge technology.