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 GP 2010 Enterprise Library 5.0 SQL Server 2008...
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 up here, but let me mention one: this release has...
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 in Windows Azure within 90 days of the RTM...
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 in performance testing using Visual Studio. I...
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 van der Valk . He was a Development Consultant, like...