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Web Application Security
No matter where in the world you are, if you're building web applications today, you have to be...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2009
Seven things you didn't know about me
I blame SoCalDevGal. 1. I have not watched television news for the past six years. My recently...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2009
Learning Team System
I've had a lot of requests for training resources. Visual Studio Team System is a huge product so I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2008
Securing Source Code
Second time this question came up: How to protect source code from theft by developers during...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2008
Afrikaans
Here's an opportunity to spice up Windows Vista: the Windows Vista "Afrikaans TaalOppervlakPak", or...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2008
World's Largest TFS Deployment?
I have not heard of any customer going bigger than this: November 2008 Growth Totals Unique Active...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2008
SqlDependency aka Query Notification
From a question the other day I dug up an example I whipped up for a class back in Swindon, England....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/08/2008
Delegates & Events
The topic of Delegates and Events came up on Thursday and I made up an example on the spot which I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/07/2008
HDD versus SSD
On my return from Zambia there should be a new laptop waiting for me at work: and I saw the option...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/06/2008
We were on a break!
Actually, I am on a break right now: this post brought to you from Lusaka, Zambia. My apologies for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/03/2008
Oman Audience Questions
Yes, we really did that: Historic Team System Offer - Two For the Price of One I was talking about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/15/2008
ALM += "Writing Secure Code"
The book is well worth reading, but knowledge is not action. Microsoft learned the lessons of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/11/2008
MSDN Road Show in Oman on Saturday
We're focused on Visual Studio Team System: Database Edition for this road show, but for those of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/10/2008
MSDN Road Show in Bahrain on Sunday
Know anyone who attended the Abu Dhabi event? Then you'll know a secret: the agenda now includes a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/08/2008
MSDN Road Show in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday
We updated the schedule for the developer track:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/31/2008
PDC: Anton's Day 1
I watched the keynote via Silverlight while preparing for the rush of attendees expected at the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/28/2008
Bringing PDC to Gulf
Between Amr and myself we are enjoying PDC so much we just had to have a "Futures" session at the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/27/2008
Real World SOA
As I mentioned about the Red Hat session at GITEX, we are agreed on SOA not being a product. Take a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/24/2008
MSDN is in the Gulf again!
Our bi-annual MSDN Road Show is again traveling the Gulf throughout November: City Date Abu Dhabi...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/19/2008
Time Tracking with TFS - instant time sheet!
I found this utility on CodePlex and it works very well for me: updating the "number of hours...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2008
Links for Oman
Welcome to all the visitors from this week's Visual Studio training! Here are the links you asked...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/08/2008
HyperV is out the door!
I'm quite happy with my RC bits, but for those who waited for the supported bits, they're finally...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2008
VSTS / ALM at PDC Pre Conf
Brian Randell rocks so any of you out there going to PDC - yes, I know, visas are a pain from this...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/21/2008
CIO, LINQ => Harmony
If you're having a hard time explaining to your CIO why LINQ matters, here's a nice high level...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/19/2008
next 12 months
If you know me from one of our many events over the last year, read on. This is your chance to tell...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/07/2008
Myths I face often
Yes I sell Visual Studio Team System for a living. That puts me in the front lines of myth busting,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/06/2008
An Original Idea
Not in the Nobel Prize sense, but check out this CCTV footage.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/02/2008
How to Ping a Vista PC
This was surprisingly hard to figure out. Thanks to this well illustrated guide, even our Finance...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/02/2008
Five years later...
And there are still a lot of applications in need of migration from 2003 to 2005. I understand you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/01/2008
VS SP1
We're so busy closing our Financial Year that Abu out of Qatar had to point out to me the great SP1...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/15/2008
TFS, Build, PowerShell, Deployed!
This is so much better than I ever imagined! Take a look at the TFS Deployer: by changing the status...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/08/2008
ZX Spectrum on XBox 360
I went looking through the projects on CodePlex.com for XNA and found a Z80 emulator!
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/04/2008
For TFS, not by Microsoft
There's a lot more out there for Team System - both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server related...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/04/2008
Visual Studio Team System Service Pack 1
You've heard me say it before and you'll hear me say it again: We ain't done! Take a look at Brian...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/01/2008
Work Items without a TFS CAL
For help desks, reporting production issues, etc. the EULA for Team Foundation Server was changed to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/17/2008
IIS7 & PHP
The best part of my job is when customers give us this kind of feedback (this in response to an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/13/2008
In theory, there's no difference... in practice...
In Abu Dhabi, the Red Bull Air Race put on a magnificent display of physics in practice. Amazing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2008
Microsoft Certifications
Several people asked me at the launch events about Certification. At the time, I didn't have an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/05/2008
It Is Done
The content we presented at our Launch events is available for download.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2008
Driving Oman
I spent the day on the road yesterday, from Dubai to Muscat, Oman, for today's launch event and a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2008
Thanks Qatar! 7 down, 2 to go...
Khobar, Riyadh, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain and now Doha - launch events are running...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/19/2008
Bahrain Launch
The launch for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is half way here now in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/17/2008
SQL Server 2008 Spatial Links
I've had surprisingly few questions on spatial data from my "What's new for developers in SQL...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/14/2008
Launch in Kuwait
The developer track's room is FULL! I'm sitting here in Amr's session on Visual Studio 2008 and the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/12/2008