There's a Zune HD firmware update that has just been released - it will take your Zune HD from 4.1 to 4.3...I don't know why they skipped 4.2, nor do I know what this firmware update adds or fixes. There's no information about this firmware update at Zune Insider. My Zune HD didn't automatically detect the new firmware update - I had to go into .. more »

Today we released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK.  (Use the direct link while the release propagates) We look forward to discussing these new Windows Azure features, in detail, at PDC '09. This release add support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2. What's new for the November re.. more »

were too easy I promise this ones tougher To do this well need to bring back two fields from the database the customers name and the customers ID. When a customer is selected we want the ComboBoxs SelectedValue property to equal the customers ID. How would you do that? Youd need to insert an anonymous type into an existing sequence of anonymous .. more »

The message box will be displayed twice! To understand why, open up the project in Reflector, and in the System_Windows_Mark_IComponentConnector_Connect method youll see these two lines: Youll see this is actually a of type Button (thats what the compiler does for WithEvents/Handles the full story of how WithEvents works is its own blog entry). In .. more »

Today at PDC we are excited to introduce the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1. AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS). For Web applications, AppFabric provides caching capabilities to .. more »

At PDC this week we had a booth to showcase the interoperability that WCF gives you through its support for the WS-* protocols. In particular, we highlighted an Apache incubator project called Stonehenge. At Stonehenge we work together with a growing list of WS-* vendors (WSO2, Sun, SpringSource, and soon Progress) to build samples and prove out .. more »

Attending Microsoft PDC 2009? Then come hear Henrik Frystyk Nielsen's presentation on Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework. The talk gives an overview of REST principles and why REST is becoming popular beyond traditional Web applications. Learn how to write applications that produce and consume RESTful services using the .NET F.. more »

Unfortunately, this particular Firefox update included a change that broke the ability of 3 Those affected by this issue will see the error text: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." Until Firefox releases an updated version with the fix, the only solution is to roll back your v.. more »

Today at PDC, we made a few announcements that would be of interest to you! First, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 4 Beta . This version of Silverlight contains some cool new features that many of you have asked for, so read...(read more).. more »

Hi everyone, When using Expression Blend, a common task you probably engage in is working with layout. Tasks I commonly associate with “working with layout” involve moving things around, rearranging the order of elements, ensuring everything flows when...(read more).. more »

This post covers Code Only improvements in the CTP2 release for VS 2010 Beta2. This walkthrough shows how you can change the default model like specifying property facets and navigation property inverses as well change the default mapping by changing the default inheritance strategy and table and column names. You can learn more about the CTP2 .. more »

A new feature of the Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 is the ability to return collections of complex type instances from stored procedures. In the next public release of the designer, we have enriched this functionality by adding the ability to automatically create these complex types by querying stored procedure metadata from the database server. To .. more »

The goal of this walkthrough is to demonstrate a basic scenario for the use of the Self-Tracking Entities feature of Entity Framework.  Self-Tracking Entities consist on a set of code generation templates based on Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) technology that is used to generate entity types that have the ability to record changes on s.. more »

Hey folks- On October 26th we posted an article here to remind Antigen users about the end-of-life date for Antigen 8 for Exchange and SMTP Gateways and provide guidance for migrating to Antigen 9.  The article said the end-of-life date is December 1, 2009, but it should have said December 31, 2009.  The article has been corrected. You can view the .. more »

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server will soon be available in 11 languages: US English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. This is the same set of languages that were available in Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007 but there is a big d.. more »

todays launch of the Windows Azure , Microsofts cloud services platform. It also represents more progress for our There are too many identity technologies to choose from. Custom development of identity functionality is slow, expensive and requires developers to be identity and security experts. It boosts developer productivity through a single, .. more »

Watch Vittorrio Bertocci’s interview of Conrad Bayer, Director of Program Management for Identity and Access, about how WIF helps developers build claims-based identity into cloud and on premises applications. .. more »

This week we released an update to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) - our hosted service providing anti-malware and anti-spam for both on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online.  FOPE can be used as an alternative to the new Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server , or in tandem with it for messaging defense-in-depth. The new r.. more »

Today, Im just going to be brief for a change, and discuss what we refer to as Managed Out scenarios. I want to thank Pat Telford a consultant in Microsoft, specializing in DirectAccess deployments among other things, for helping with this subject. Like I mentioned in one of my , one of the big advantages of the DirectAccess technology over .. more »

Proving software free of security bugs is hard. Programming language support to ensure that programs correctly enforce their security policies would help, but, to date, no language has the ability to verify the enforcement of the kinds of policies used in practice---dynamic, stateful policies which address a broad range of concerns including forms .. more »

Behavioural type and effect systems regulate properties such as adherence to object and communication protocols, dynamic security policies, avoidance of race conditions, and many others. Typically, each system is based on some specific syntax of constraints, and is checked with an ad hoc solver. Instead, we advocate types refined with first-order .. more »