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• .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 and 3.0 Side-by-Side (SxS)

  I've written before about installing .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 side by side (SxS) on the same box . Microsoft recently added to the mix .NET Framework 3.0 , so it's about time to clear up any confusion on the newest release. Above all, you should understand Read More... Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 11:06 AM by Thomas | 32 Comments Filed under: Development, General, MS Server Products

• Sudden problems signing into Windows Live Messenger

  Starting a couple of days ago I was suddenly unable to sign into Windows Live Messenger. The signin graphic would just spin endlessly, or I'd get a "service not available" message. In case you have also run into this (many have), Microsoft did a bad thing Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:15 AM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference Wrapup

  It's the last day of the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference and just about time to head for home. I've had a great week in Redmond and have had a chance to talk with many other members of the BizTalk community. The conference has more than Read More... Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 12:00 PM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General, Personal

• Microsoft's Marketing Missteps. Will They Never End?

  Microsoft continues to be the software industry's leading producer of inept marketing strategies. Where do their marketing "experts" come from, and how do they keep their jobs? Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are brilliant, yet they appear just as clueless Read More... Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 7:39 PM by Thomas | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• Share and Synchronize Files for Free, Courtesy of Microsoft

  With Microsoft buying up companies and not always merging them into the Microsoft brand, it's easy to miss some great Microsoft services. In November 2005, Microsoft purchased FolderShare , a service for synchronizing and sharing files across multiple Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:32 PM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• Visual Studio 2005 Licensing - A Sad State of Affairs

  Microsoft may be an awesome technology company, but they have often managed to screw up licensing and major marketing efforts. Remember when they thought that every product name should have .NET attached to it ? Remember ActiveX? How about Licensing 6 Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:45 AM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• How to Crash the DB Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2005 RTM -- Take 2

  As a follow-up to my earlier post about crashing the SQL Server 2005 Database Tuning Advisor , I later discovered that the .NET exception stack trace was logged to the Application event log. My suspicions were correct: it is a threading bug, and it turns Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:31 PM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• VS 2005 and SQL 2005 Together

  Many developers will want to install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Visual Studio 2005 on the same PC. (Note: This applies to any version of SQL 2005.) If you install SQL 2005 first and choose to install the BI Development Studio, you are actually Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:16 PM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General

• How to Crash the DB Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2005 RTM

  SQL Server 2005 is arguably the most important release of SQL Server in Microsoft's history. It has been through numerous public test releases in addition to extensive internal testing. Yesterday I had a chance to install the RTM version and start poking Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:25 PM by Thomas | 0 Comments Filed under: General