Steve Ballmer’s keynote for TechEd 2005 is now available.From Adam Nathan’s blog: • “Direct Mobile Messaging” – also known by its more catchy name of “Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0” or ES2K3SP2+MSFPWM5 for short • Microsoft Update • A Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC • […]

Indigo Beta 1 is coming. Check the release candidate at Microsoft Downloads site. If there not any major bugs in this release, the real Beta 1 is going to be the same download. You can report bugs here.I think this summer will be a WS-Summer for me. From ssge’s blog.

After reading some articles on .NET memory model I understood two things. First you should never rely on MSDN for good multithreading advice. And second – the best way to create a singleton is the following: public sealed class Singleton { private Singleton() { } private static Singleton value; private static object syncRoot = new […]

I watched a demo on VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) posted by Christina Storm, Program Manager for Visual Studio 2005. It is truly amazing! I have been wondering what this VSTO has more to provide from the existing Microsoft Office .NET Interoperability components. Watch the demo to find the difference. A little warm up […]

See Rory and Scott in a design session 🙂 Download the movie and watch out for the PowerPoint application :).

Shit! Look at the new MSDN Premuim subscription. Way expensive for a small shop.

Softwaremaker made it on MSDN. His article “Routing Secured SOAP Messages Through Multiple SOAP Intermediaries Using WSE 2.0” is something that I have always wanted to dig into but unfortunately I am pretty busy with non WSE stuff these months.

As you might inevitably have heard, Avalon and Indigo CTPs are available for MSDN Subscribers. It is located under Tools, SDKs, DDKs | Platform Tools | WinFX SDK | Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview – March 05 (English). You take a look at the release notes first. And do not forget about the early […]

In case you have not downloaded the presentations on Indigo from VSLive! 2005, you can find them here. Here is the list of videos available for download: 1. Keynote: Introducing IndigoEric Rudder, Senior VP of Servers and Tools, Microsoft 2. Programming IndigoDon Box and Steve Swartz, Microsoft 3. Building Secure ServicesDoug Purdy, Microsoft 4. Building […]

I found this a long time ago, but I haven’t thought to blog about it till yesterday. It is really cool hidden feature explained in Sara Ford’s blog called Visual Studio Guidelines. Basically it allows you to set rulers in your text editor with preferred color. You can set at most 13 guidelines. The trick […]