The first time the Development Storage service is started up on a machine, an initialization takes place. This was first started on my box when I attempted to debug my first Cloud project in Visual...

Earlier in the year I did a presentation on the pros and cons of Thin vs Thick Client architecture, purely from the perspective of recommending an approach for a new UI. This is a long running deba...

Using your games console as a media player is not just for PlayStation or X-Box owners, its also possibly with the Wii. You can consume all your media (play music, view photos etc) using your telev...

If you usually use two monitors in a dual screen setup you may find that when you move back to one (such as when you undock your laptop to go mobile) occasionally some windows disappear. On launchi...

I recently opened a SCSF project that was having build problems and I found that once the build problems had been corrected the GAT recipes were not working. An error was being reported when I trie...

There is an issue with the 2008 version of the Smart Client Software Factory and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  The guidance recipes don’t work correctly and won’t provide the “Add View” options etc. Thi...

Run this command to see who has something checked out in TFS: "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEtf.exe" status /server:_SERVERNAME_ /user:\*  $/_TFSPROJECTBRANCH_ /recursive /lo...