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Wow, April 2010 proves to be a jam-packed month of releases from Microsoft. A short list, that is bound to be incomplete: .NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 Office 2010 SharePoint 2010 Data Protection Manager 2010 System Center Essentials 2010 Dynamics...
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The Microsoft Enterprise Library has always been one of the most popular things to come out of the patterns & practices team. Yesterday p&p reached a major milestone by releasing version 5.0 of EntLib. The improvements are too numerous to sum...
Long before I joined the company, Brad Abrams was one of the first people for me that put a human face on Microsoft. I felt sad when I just read his blog post that Brad is leaving Microsoft . But at the same time I feel happy for all that he has accomplished...
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in   As you will probably know, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will RTM on April 12, 2010 and will be available for download on MSDN Subscriptions Downloads the same day. The Windows Azure team is committed to making .NET Framework 4 available...
[ Updated 2010-04-25 : The lightweight view for MSDN has been fixed, so the content of this post is no longer relavant] [ Updated 2010-04-07 : Updated one screenshot, because the lightweight view has changed] MSDN has recently switched the default online...
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Last week we published a new major version of the Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide . The effort of creating this document was lead by Geoff Gray. Geoff is a senior consultant in the Microsoft Services Labs in the US that specializes...
I don’t write much for public consumption these days, i.e., this blog has gone really quiet ;) Most of my work is for clients that don’t like it if I blog about that. But I did write an article about cloud computing and Windows Azure for the Dutch TechNet...
Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently...
Yesterday Microsoft published a ~ 100 TB image update to Live Search Maps . And finally, we have bird’s eye imagery for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since I live in Amsterdam , you can imagine that I am pretty thrilled about this. This is the bird’s...
It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin...