Warning: This is my experimentation and cannot be taken as a recommendation! I gave it to my temptation and installed the Visual Studio 2010 RC despite…

In this Issue: Bruce Abernethy(2), Laurent Bugnion, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Robby Ingebretsen blogged Shawn Wildermuth is getting ready to write a…

Something a little different. No mentions of web roles, nodes or queues – but interesting nevertheless. Brad Smith gave Microsoft’s vision of cloud…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2010/02/09/reember-to-uninstall-all-beta-2-stuff-before-upgrading-to-vs-2010-rc/

\\] Awareness of the existence of the Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator remains pretty low based on some conversations I have had lately at…

In this Issue: Fons Sonnemans, Mark Monster, Karl Shifflett, Einar Ingebrigtsen(2), Jeremy Likness, Emil Stoychev, Andrew Veresov, Sergey Barskiy(2), and…

There was a thread last year on the SSAS MSDN forum SSAS 2008 -- Why is metadata so slow??? in relation to slow metadata queries on a cube with 250+…

MVC 2 Editor Template with DateTime One of the cool new features of MVC 2 is the ability to automatically pick an editor template based on the meta data…

To download the source code please click here Introduction Claim-based authorization is a new model of authorization introduced in Windows Communication…

In this Issue: Nokola, Braulio Díez Botella, Gavin Wignall, David Poll, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bruce Abernethy(2), and Kathleen McGrath.

As part of Microsoft UKs Azure Awareness Week in February (2010) we have three training workshops for partners taking place.

I wanted to pull together all of my notes on compression I've gathered from various sources and bring them together here, in the hope that it would help…

Often when you write XAML, you wish you could ignore a property temporarily. In code, it is easy to do: Just comment out the line where the property is…

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer.

Thanks to everyone who voted me onto the DDD8 agenda. It’s always an honour to have a topic voted into a conference by an audience of fellow developers,…

Lots of folks keep asking me for UK prices and to be fair it does take a little work to find them (You need to start here and bring up this pop up)

INTRODUCTION Some time ago I needed to display some text in my WPF application using a custom font. As a custom font I see a font that is not installed in…

If you want to run a batch (.bat) file from within Visual Studio, you need to add an external tool. From the Tools menu select External Tools, and then…

Previously - Fun with menus - Part I A few days back I set about trying to get radio items into menus. This is helpful if you want only one of the items…

Most people - even the overwhelming majority of programmers - would say that the main activity of a software developer is "writing source code". But this…