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Distribution vs. development: What’s the story and why does it matter?
In today’s threat landscape, distributing malware and developing malware are two different worlds. Both require a different set of skills in order to work and in order to achieve their separate goals....
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Adding a Signature Control to the LightSwitch HTML Client
LightSwitch is all about building business solutions quickly -- defining your data models & business rules and visually creating screens with a set of built-in controls. It does all the boring...
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How to Manually Create the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Charanjeet Singh and Rituraj Choudhary from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] Certain Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are created and configured by default...
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SQL Server in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – Updated Documentation...
It’s been just over a week since Windows Azure announced the GA of Infrastructure Services, marking the beginning of a fully supported Infrastructure as a Service in Windows Azure, with SQL Server as a...
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Congrats to the Winners of the So You Think You Know Excel Sweepstakes
Last month, we asked, “What do you Excel at?” and after thousands of you took the ‘So You Think You Know Excel’ Challenge on Facebook, we have the answer! You excel at rising to a challenge and digging...
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Two new Hyper-V Books available from Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press is releasing two new titles for IT pros who work with the Hyper-V virtualization platform:http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145383068.do...
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KB: System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Recommended Agent OS Fixes and...
We just published a new KB article that discusses fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Agent computers. You can find the complete article and get all the...
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Now in the Store: Ice Age Village for Windows Phone 8
Another great Kid’s Corner candidate is arriving this morning: Ice Age Village from Gameloft and Xbox. Best of all the new Windows Phone 8-only title is free. Download it here. (If you don’t see it...
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How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems
If you are developing a JavaScript Windows Store App, you will want to measure the performance characteristics of your app. The Visual Studio 2012 JavaScript profiler can help you to identify...
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Social Engineering
When people in our industry use the term “social engineering” they are usually referring to security attacks. Politicians and lobbyists would mean something entirely different too. But that’s not what...
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Social Engineering
Are you wondering what my team does for team building?You can find out on our .NET wide blog.
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Celebrating the Best of the Web with the Help of our Great Partners!
On the IE team, we are humbled to have worked with a variety of partners to create beautiful, immersive experiences on the web like Atari, Contre Jour, Project Prometheus, Pulse, and viral videos like...
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Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects
This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamHere are the quick steps you need to take to set up a Windows Phone OS 7.1 Visual Studio project to use the...
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Project-less scripted C# with ScriptCS and Roslyn
Glenn Block is working on something interesting that combines C#, NuGet, Roslyn (the new "compiler as a service") and his love of text editors and scripts. Now, with help from Justin Rusbatch...
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Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups and Disk Sector Sizes
These days, some customers are deploying Exchange databases and log files on advanced format (4K) drives. Although these drives support a physical sector size of 4096, many vendors are emulating 512...
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Release Notes 4/24/2013
In this week’s deployment, the CodePlex team made the following improvements:Added twitter cards! Now, when a link to CodePlex is tweeted, these tweets will have a Twitter card with more information...
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Service Manager 2012 and Service Level Management – Part 3
We have already talked about the reasons behind Service Level Management, as well as how to make Service Manager ready for Service Level Management (SLM).In this post, I will focus on Service Level...
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Want to integrate ConfigMgr 2012 and App-v 5.0? Thamim has you covered
Looking to integrate your virtual application management with App-V 5.0 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1)? If so then Microsoft’s own Thamim Karim has you covered. You...
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Data-linked diagrams: Linking data from an external data source
Yana Terukhova is a Product Marketing Manager on the Microsoft Visio team. Visually displaying always up-to-date information on clearly laid out diagrams helps to communicate information effectively....
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Dashboard Reports with LightSwitch, WebAPI and ServerApplicationContext– Part...
OverviewWith a little homage to Hot Shots Part Deux we’ll drill in a bit deeper utilizing the ServerApplicationContext for creating Dashboard reports. Part 1 is here: Create Dashboard Reports with...
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