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Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites

wisecarver — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:26:23 GMT

Great news today, from ScottGu and the IIS team: Wow – do we have a bunch of announcements for you! If you care about Web sites, read on. From really cool media scenarios, to making it easy getting started on the Microsoft Web Platform, to advanced tweaks...(read more)

Please help Microsoft in the effort to address the challenge of H1N1 in Schools

wisecarver — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:27:00 GMT

Office Live Workspaces helped students continue their schoolwork while they stayed home during an outbreak of the swine flu. Address the classroom challenge of H1N1 If the H1N1 flu virus keeps your students away from the classroom, continue the learning...(read more)

Gabriola on Windows 7

wisecarver — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Simply awesome... If you've poked around your fonts list in Windows 7, you might have come across a display font called Gabriola. What you may not have known is that this font is an important first step in some additions to Windows. Gabriola is an OpenType...(read more)

How do we put gadgets in our weblogs.asp.net sidebar?

wisecarver — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:38:00 GMT

Can anyone help with this? I'm trying to get a text/javascript gadget in the sidebar here. If you can offer any tips I'll be very thankful. ;-) Leave a comment or contact me via: wisemx@msftwise.com or on http://twitter.com/msftwise Thanks UPDATE : Success...(read more)

Active August

wisecarver — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:50:00 GMT

Active August…Summary For those who were not aware Active August was mostly SQL Server DBA’s and many others who are Twitter friends and comrades. Twitter trend/search : #ActiveAugust You’ll see many of the Active August participants making Blog posts...(read more)

VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

wisecarver — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:33:57 GMT

Soma segar posting some very cool news regarding changes for both VB and C#. http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/08/19/vb-and-c-enhancements-in-vs-2010.aspx i.e. ( Many of us have begged for this ) Visual Basic The Visual Basic team focused on...(read more)

Using SQL Management Studio 2008 with SQL Data Services (SQL in the Cloud)

wisecarver — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:21:08 GMT

Woohoo! Yup partners, this is exciting stuff! OK…most of you know I’m a Technical Evangelist/Webcaster for Shared Hosting. (Specifically the award winning Microsoft Gold Partner DiscountASP.NET) That being said I will admit that I do not use Microsoft...(read more)

Watching the new Bing bot

wisecarver — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:25:00 GMT

Worth noting...The Bing team wants us to know they are hard at work but we need to keep an eye on our sites: Back in December of 2008, we alerted you to the possibility that you might start seeing our new web crawler in your referrer logs. Given the recent...(read more)

Bing in Use (Community)

wisecarver — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:29:00 GMT

Bing fan boy here ;-) Check out this post by Ian: Pictures of Bing Stickers in Use I’ve started to receive some photos of how people are using the Bing stickers I sent out. I sent out about 30 to various people around the world and I still have some more...(read more)

Codeplex the way you want it

wisecarver — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:38:00 GMT

First of all... When it's raining on our parade everyone tosses their arms up and complains. Point is, Codeplex is a lot like a Sunny day and we're enjoying the Parade -> Microsoft+Community You already use http://www.codeplex.com/ ...Right? Have you...(read more)

40,000 days since the beginning of ‘time’

wisecarver — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:00 GMT

This is cool...A SQL Server trip through the 1900's by Rob Farley: 40,000 days since the beginning of ‘time’ Next Tuesday feels like a significant day. Not only is it 7/7, and the fourth anniversary of the London bombings (in 2005), but it’s 40,000 days...(read more)

I'm A VB (VBTeam)

wisecarver — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:09:00 GMT

:-) I'm A VB : Mark Wisecarver http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/pages/i-m-a-vb-mark-wisecarver.aspx Are you a VB? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dRItygroketO20qGr5fcPA_3d_3d...(read more)

The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit

wisecarver — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:00 GMT

David Ebbo's blog - The Ebb and Flow of ASP.NET http://twitter.com/davidebbo The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit Short version : the MVC T4 template (now named T4MVC) is now available on CodePlex, as one of the...(read more)

If VS2010 ends up hosing Vista. . .

wisecarver — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:03:00 GMT

It happens to the best of us, right? OK, OK, I should be using VM for things like this but I admit that I was so excited to test VS2010 that I jumped right on the Web install from Microsoft. At first everything was fine. I use two Vista SP2 systems, Ultimate...(read more)

SQL Server Index Defrag Script

wisecarver — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:09:00 GMT

Hiya. . . Some of you may have already seen this, but just in case you haven't; Some excellent SQL Server work from Michelle Ufford, also known as "SQL Fool". http://sqlfool.com/2009/06/index-defrag-script-v30/ Index Defrag Script, v3.0 June 23, 2009...(read more)