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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...
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...
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...
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...