Tag: Development

Nov 30, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In addition to adding support for the .NET Framework, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning and "theming," data …

Microsoft Development

It's not a bug, it's a feature

Oct 6, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of my students forwarded this to me this week. I thought it was hilarious.

Development

Orca not Orcas

Jun 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I just learned about this neat editor for creating and editing Windows Installer packages (.msi files) and merge modules (.msm files). Orca is just one of many cool installer tools by Microsoft. …

Development

Extending Load Testing Browser Support

May 24, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The browser support out-of-the-box for Team Edition for Testers is pretty minimal. But, you can extend this support by adding your own browsers (common ones you'll probably want to add are IE7, …

Visual Studio Development ALM Testing

C# to Javascript Compiler

May 6, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Learning a new language isn’t always fun, especially Javascript. Plus, when you’re working in one language, it takes context switching to flip to another, even for a trivial task. Nikhil …

Misc Visual Studio Tools Development

New Team System Column

May 3, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

FTP Online has started a new Team System column written by me! I’ll be writing about virtually anything that comes to mind or that you want me to write about! It’s a twice monthly column …

Visual Studio Community Development ALM

Congratulations to the DBPro team (and Scott Ambler)

Mar 28, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m a bit late to the party, but I wanted to recognize a couple of cool 2007 Jolt Award winners … <li>Microsoft and the VSTS/Database Professionals product group for …

Community Development

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Performance Guide released!

Jan 30, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The much anticipated and eagerly awaited Analysis Services 2005 Performance Guide has been released and is available on the Microsoft download site.

Development SQL Server

See you at 'camp this weekend in Seattle

Oct 26, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

That's right. Seattle Code Camp 2.0 is upon us, with a late-breaking venue change ... Camp will be held at Nintendo's DigiPen Univeristy, which is very near the Microsoft Campus. Consultants …

Conferences Microsoft Development SQL Server