Anith Gopal

Picture this – it’s time to sit down and start architecting your new application.  You’re going to use the latest and the greatest – you’re going to go Cloud.  Cloud – as in Windows Azure – just to make sure!  What’s the first thing you think of? Design Patterns, of course.   To start, you’ll need patterns for: Compute Storage Communications Security Network Relational Data That’s where Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann’s Azure Design Patterns site comes in handy – it covers them all (and it’s made with Silverlight ).  Why scour the abyss of information online when you can go to one place and see it all, neatly organized in a way that’s easy to navigate?

The Small Basic API reference is now available at: http://doc.smallbasic.com/ .  With v0.5, you can view the API reference in your choice of English, Spanish or French.  

I’ve seen a few people get confused over what this error message in the Reporting Services log file indicates. This message is generated when the Reporting Services web server detects that an HTTP request has experienced a remote disconnect.  In practice, this means that we queried the property HttpResponse.IsClientConnected and it returned false. So how does this work exactly, and are all requests subject to this kind of check?

For all you Surface Fans, my colleague Jennifer Marsman has written a series of blog posts about developing on Microsoft Surface: Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface?

Maybe it’s because I’ve been swamped this week while the sun’s been shining here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, but I’ve been doing some thinking about buffer, downtime, and productivity. I don’t think it’s a secret that projects have a tendency to come in late sometimes

In the interest of helping our customers with successful deployment and operation of Microsoft technology, here are some useful links to some free resources from Microsoft TechNet designed with IT Professionals in mind. ·          Best bets ·          Career and Learning ·          Additional IT Pro specific resources Don’t forget to check out the content on Sustainable Computing . Best bets Resource Detail TechNet Flash newsletter The biweekly TechNet Flash IT newsletter delivers the latest IT news, security bulletins, product updates, event announcements, and more, making it easy for you to stay in the know.

In my previous posts I have discussed various bits that are important know before taking on Work Item types customization. Today I’d like to talk more about approaching the whole process.

I was  just asked the  question -  which one to  get MSDN  or TechNet  subscription? Both MSDN and TechNet  subscriptions include  Microsoft  software that  is licensed per  user.  MSDN Premium and TechNet Plus contain roughly the same software titles, though TechNet Plus does not include any Visual Studio or Expression products. TechNet Plus subscriptions also include eLearning and other resources for IT Professionals.  Both MSDN and…( read more )

Ages ago i pointed out some great resources on the Windows Client Tech Center over on TechNet and I have heard from Chriskil that they have been doing some spring cleaning on the site with changes including: More featured videos Removal of sub-navigation elements (underneath the tabs) to pull the content up on the page and de-clutter your choices For the Springboard pages, we introduced a new navigation element with buttons that takes up less space and just looks nicer than the text links we had before We removed useless, bandwidth hogging-graphics Standardized icon application to allow for content type identification at a glance Implemented OMPL feeds in some places for fresher content Standardized the look and feel of the pages across the different product version pages for Windows XP , Windows Vista and Windows 7 So Worth Checking out, as I have found these resources very good in the past. Rob Technorati Tags: Windows , technet

John Hrvatin, a lead program manager on the Internet Explorer team, presented "Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites” at this years MIX.  In the talk he goes over many different aspects of web performance including: CSS performance Optimizing symbol resolution JavaScript coding inefficiencies HTTP performance Check out the video at http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T53F

There were a few additional resources that did not fit in our rundown on font management applications .