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The PDC 2008 Hard drive give away!
Microsoft have announced that every attendee will receive a cool, PDC2008-branded, 160GB external hard drive loaded with software! As far as it is know, this is the first time that external hard drives have been given out in such large quantities at a Read More...

Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 5:04 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

Windows 7 'bits' for PDC attendees
As promised , we published 17 additional Windows 7 sessions this morning. If you were wondering how much you'd hear about Windows 7 at this year's Professional Developers Conference , you now have the answer: a lot . A few of the session descriptions Read More...

Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 5:01 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

BizTalk 2009 - The next version.
Following on from BizTalk Server 2006 R2 released on October 2, 2007,Microsoft has been working on BizTalk Server 2006 R3. In a recent announcement Microsoft  renamed it to simply BizTalk Server 2009.  It is scheduled to be released in the first Read More...

Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 8:20 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

IE8 Beta 2 - Extraction Failure when installing
Just wasted a few minutes trying to install the latest and greatest beta of IE8. Kept receiving the very unhelpful message: "Extraction Failed" And then the penny dropped - simply Run As Administrator!  Technorati Tags: IE8 , Install failure Read More...

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:09 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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Introducing Zermatt
Nice article by Sebastian Iacomuzzi : Intro to ZZermatt . Zermatt is a set of .NET Framework classes. It is a framework for implementing claims-based identity in your applications. When you build claims-aware applications, the user presents an identity Read More...

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 6:18 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

Microsoft announces Zermatt!!
“ Zermatt ” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware applications to address challenging application security requirements using a simplified application access model. It is currently in beta, and the first Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:01 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

Browser Memory Hogs......
Have a look at the following investigation by Sam Allen ..... "The author developed a program to snapshot memory usage per process every 3 seconds on Windows. Using this he recorded 3 hours of memory usage for five different browsers under real-world Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:09 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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Review: SlickEdit
SlickEdit is one of the old school editors that has survived the wonder world of the new IDE. Version 13 3 has just been released and it continues to blur the boundaries between a simple text editor and a fullblown IDE. While there are no visual form Read More...

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 7:43 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

SharePoint Log on nags
If you keep getting nagged for log ons when using sharepoint this will solve the problem almost 100% of the time. The trick is to use the Windows managed Stored username and password feature. To access this, 1. Simply go into Control Panel 2. Click User Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:44 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
As we use more and more virtual machines, particularly for development, there is a risk because they don't get updated by pushing critical security or virus updates and then they are fired up six months later we can have a security problem. Microsoft Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:56 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User Guide, Version 1.1
This is the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the tools for developing custom SharePoint applications with the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 (VSeWSS 1.1). The user guide has sections: Starting out Read More...

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 10:59 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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Develop for SharePoint on Vista
If you are a developer for SharePoint your best friend has been Virtual PC or VMWare. It’s now time to introduce a new friend, Bamboo Nation's SharePointOnVista go here for more info Technorati Tags: MOSS 2007 , Deve on Vista , WSS3.0     Read More...

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 10:47 AM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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Ten Tips for Using SharePoint Server 2007 with Excel Services
Learn ten tips to improve your use of SharePoint Server 2007 with Excel Services from the SharePoint - Excel Services forum. Go here to download Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:42 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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SharePoint Placeholders Explained
Thanks to Mike Breeze for this one.   Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:24 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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New BizTalk Series poster - BAM
Get it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/c/d7c1bc18-8a77-4d94-88f8-217689c71325/BAM%20poster.pdf Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:17 PM by Denzamoo | 0 Comments

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