If you attended one of the many Visual Studio 2008 InstallFests we held across the country during December and January, you may be experiencing the “this trial copy is about to expire” message. By now, you should have received your *free*, fully-licensed copy of Visual Studio in the mail. You DO NOT have to uninstall [...]
Today, Microsoft announced DreamSpark. A program through Channel8 that will offer our developer and designer tools at no charge to college students. This initial release is targeted at 10 countries worldwide including China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, the UK and the US. After a few details are ironed out, future phases [...]
I survived last week’s melee that is TechReady. TechReady is a bi-annual conference held for all of the Microsoft technical field people to hear the latest from the Microsoft product teams and to discuss product and technology directions and roadmap. I, unfortunately, didn’t get to enjoy many of the sessions as I was working this [...]
Now that you’ve garnered your copy of Visual Studio 2008 from the many installfests we’ve run across the country, it’s time to put it through it’s paces and learn about all of the great new features found in both Visual Studio and .NET 3.5.
As a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, you’d think we would learn about [...]
Today the Windows Server Product Team pushed out the final bits for Windows Server 2008. There are many new features in Windows Server 2008 (Server Core, Powershell, TS Gateway, Hyper-V, etc.), but the feature I’m looking forward to the most (as is most of my customers) is IIS7.
IIS7 has been under development for the past [...]
I am a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, based out of Chicago. I work with developers across IL, IN and WI to help them realize their full technology potential.
