Microsoft's Explanation of Seinfeld Advertisement
Friday, September 05, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord
After many technology professionals and marketing organizations questioned the first in a series of advertisements involving Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld, and Microsoft, an explanation was delivered. Earlier today, Microsoft published a response to several ... continue

Vista Advertising
Friday, September 05, 2008 by paul
Advertising campaign starts in the US with "Shoe Circus"I was watching my New York Giants play the Washington Redskins in the NFL's first game of the seasion last night and just before the end of the first half of play this comical comercial came on.

Technology In Political Views
Friday, September 05, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord
I usually don't like mentioning anything political in my blog. However, this I found interesting. BetaNews has written several entries regarding the democratic and republic president and vice-president candidates. Here they are in order of publish date: ... continue

IIS7 Integrated Mode and Global.asax
Thursday, September 04, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord
In IIS7, there are two modes for ASP.NET application pools: classic mode (only mode available for IIS6) and integrated mode. Integrated Mode offers quite a bit with IIS7 and is the recommended mode for application pools (more details at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/244/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-iis7-integrated-pipeline/). ... continue

The First Microsoft and Seinfeld Advertisement
Thursday, September 04, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord
Mary Jo Foley posted a summary of the first Microsoft advertisement that played during tonight's NFL game. Her full blog posting can be found at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1569#comments. For those of you that want to see the video, here it is: ... continue

SQL Server Data Mining Services
Thursday, September 04, 2008 by paul
Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining Services Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time The SQL Server Data Mining team is working to extend the power and ease of use of SQL Server Data Mining to the Cloud. The goal is provide services that allow you to build ... continue

Update Google Chrome Using Visual Studio
Thursday, September 04, 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord
That's right. You can build and modify Google Chrome using Visual Studio 2005. Google has provided instructions to setup your environment. You can then download the source from Google's Subversion repository or download a tarball to build. Check it out ... continue

Team Foundation Answer Files for SQL Server
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 by Steve
In a previous post, I mentioned how the installer answer files simplify the installation of SQL Server for Team Foundation. Several folks have since asked me to elaborate on these files. Answer files are INI files preconfigured with the settings required ... continue

NYC SHAREPOINT UG
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 by paul
Tonights meeting: Using Social Sites to Extend MOSS with Social Feedback NewsGator's Director of Product Management, Ashley Roach, will discuss and demonstrates how the use of social sites can extend MOSS 2007 with social feedback like bookmarking, tagging, ... continue

Unit Test Deployment Woes
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 by Steve
One of the common complaints I hear about Unit Testing in Visual Studio centers around test deployment. By default, when you run a unit test, the assemblies get copied to another location to be run. The assemblies and test results are copied to the following ... continue