by jcannon on May 27, 2008
Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show... more
- Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008
It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008
I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more
- Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007
Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture... more
- Thursday, October 18, 2007
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by jcannon on October 03, 2007
Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...."
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more
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by MichaelF on April 13, 2007
Sam sits down with a veteran of the video game industry, Development Manager of the XNA Community Game Platform and Star Trek Deck Plan expert: Frank Savage...... more
- Friday, April 13, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 10, 2007
In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes.
One potential application of this process is to use Excel as a front-end for data analysis. Data can be pulled from views or tables and then further analyzed... more
- Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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by jcannon on March 16, 2007
MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more
- Friday, March 16, 2007
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by MichaelF on February 22, 2007
This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more
- Thursday, February 22, 2007
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by MichaelF on October 10, 2006
Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance. After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers. Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV. This is where we would... more
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by MichaelF on September 19, 2006
Sam interviews Wayne Citrin to discuss work his company, JNBridge, has done to provide interoperability between .NET and Java...... more
- Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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by MichaelF on September 06, 2006
Recently Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner suggested we provide: "Something like a checklist of the most common OS integration points that have changed from Windows XP would be extremely useful…" Turns out there are some useful resources already available for those interested in developing Open Source applications for Windows Vista or ensuring that their current applications are compatible...... more
- Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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by MichaelF on August 11, 2006
In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME and Mono. ... more
- Friday, August 11, 2006
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by jcannon on August 02, 2006
At this year's Black Hat Security Conference, several engineers on the Windows Networking & Security teams will be presenting on a number of technical topics, ranging from the new improvements made to the reliability & performance of the OS Heap Manager, to the NetIO stack—a re-architected and re-written TCP/IP stack. Our discussion on this podcast has three distinguished engineers discussing their... more
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