1 June 2009 0 Comments

Office 2010 and how it can help you build powerful solutions…

There will be more details over the coming months on what’s coming in Office 2010, and the power it brings to developers. I’m particularly excited to start talking about the ways in which you can combine the power of the rich clients with server side technologies to build solutions that no longer just target a specific individual using a specific application, but instead expand out to the workgroup, and all the content they are leveraging to accomplish their goals.

27 May 2009 0 Comments

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I’d have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team that owns this code any more and I didn’t own it when I was then

21 May 2009 0 Comments

You can sort by most downloaded project – #034

Previously, I mentioned that you can sort by top rated release on CodePlex. But it is also interesting to know you can sort by most downloaded project in the past 7 days. We do past 7 days so that active projects are listed first

20 May 2009 0 Comments

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Getting Started

Hi Cluster Fans,   Amongst the long list of features that is being added in Windows Server R2, Clustering team is also providing a set of PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) to manage your Failover Cluster.   Hopefully this is not news for most cluster administrators as we have publishing information on the blog and in our webcasts .   We have written a guide for using PowerShell in the Beta release and will add additional information shortly for the RC release:   PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

20 May 2009 0 Comments

Interesting anti-spam cartoon on Youtube

Here’s a cartoon I stumbled across on Youtube that talks about connection filtering and its difference from content filtering.  Enjoy.