On a current project I was interested in using VSTS for Database professionals to see if it could add any value with database management. Traditionally its been a very manual process as Visual Studio has not had any real support for it. I also knew that Nick Weinholt is due to present at SDNUG on the...

After going on holidays, feeling relaxed and generally not doing much tech related stuff, I have fallen behind in a number of things. One was my inbox, something like 1400+ messages I have had to wade through, and they keep coming. However, the other is the podcasts. Wally has been producing some podcasts...

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical...

Lately, I've been spending some time working with SQL Server 2008. There are a lot of innovative features included in the latest CTP on both the DB and BI engines that are worth checking. I plan to keep blogging about it during the next weeks. On this post I want to focus on what is arguably the biggest...

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked...

I've used ADO.NET synchronization framework in an internal project and had to give a presentation about it in the local Visual Studio 2008 Launch. I'm quite impressed with it and with the whole MS synchronization story. The usual demo basically implies changing one line of code and adding three more...

Well I didn't have any time to blog during Teched (by the end of my last talk I was completely exhausted and I still had to work at the booth with my friend Clemens Vasters ) but I survived. I really wanted to thank to all the folks who attended my sessions, specially the Real World BAM which opened...

If you couldn't make it to the PDC (or even if you did) you can download the session slides from here . Don't worry if you seem to be unrecognized - just keep going....

If you couldn't make it to the PDC (or even if you did) you can download the session slides from here . Don't worry if you seem to be unrecognized - just keep going....

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) is the newest adding to Microsoft's Software + Services vision. Definitely , SSDS is going to impact the way developers approach data access solutions.