TechEd was split into two weeks this year--one for developers and one for IT folks (a formula that has worked well at TechEd Europe the last couple of years)--and Monday morning TechEd Developers begins with a slate of full-day pre-conference sessions. Read More...

I'm in Hyderabad, India preparing to work on the Microsoft campus this week and I feel like I'm in the movie "Groundhog Day." My luggage didn't make it with me. When this happened to me in Europe last year, I went for almost a week without my luggage. Read More...

My latest Wicked Code column is now online at MSDN Magazine. Titled "Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple," it presents a Silverlight 1.0 framework for building slick page-turning applications. I mentioned the framework in an earlier blog post but didn't Read More...

I have largely avoided problems with Vista by only running it on PCs on which it comes preinstalled. At least I avoided problems until a few weeks ago. With a total of five PCs and laptops now running Vista in my house, the constant avalanche of automatic Read More...