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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate Available

Scott Golightly's Blog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:53:00 GMT

I am downloading the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 right now. It is available for MSDN subscribers. Yet another reason to subscribe to MSDN. According to the download manager in just 3 hours I will be able to install the...(read more)

Predictions for 2010

Scott Golightly's Blog — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:04:00 GMT

It is the last day of 2009 and as we all know for most of us living on this planet 2009 wasn’t the best year. We had concerns over our jobs, wars, families, and other issues. Over the years I have made predictions or sworn them off based on how accurate...(read more)

.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 release delayed

Scott Golightly's Blog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:50:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie blogged that the launch date for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will be delayed. They are delaying the release to fix some performance problems. Also according to the blog there will be a release candidate in February with a broad...(read more)

Intellectual Property and the Internet

Scott Golightly's Blog — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:55:00 GMT

Yesterday and today I have been following a story that a contractor for Microsoft China ripped off a lot of code from another microblogging service. ZDNet has a short synopsis of the issue. This got me thinking about the problems of intellectual property...(read more)

Virtualization Faceoff

Scott Golightly's Blog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:48:00 GMT

On the Windows IT Pro web site they are running a “faceoff” between Hypervisors (VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V) to discuss some of the pros and cons of virtualization and each product. It also looks like Novell is posting information as well. The format...(read more)

5 Years of Blogging

Scott Golightly's Blog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:51:00 GMT

I just checked and I have been blogging now for 5 years. Hopefully you have been enjoying the posts and the information that I have written about. I know that I have. I am looking forward to the next few years as there is a lot of exciting technology...(read more)

PDC 2009 Wrap Up

Scott Golightly's Blog — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:00 GMT

The PDC is over and I am home. I am taking a few minutes to be a little reflective and put down some thoughts. 1. The Acer PC was great. I heard people complaining about it not having more software (Visual Studio 2010 being the most common) or RAM but...(read more)

PDC 09 - SVC 15 – Windows Azure Monitoring, Logging, and Management APIs

Scott Golightly's Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:56:00 GMT

Local access infeasible so you can’t get access to any of the event logs or other tracing that you would normally do on a single server SDK supports distributed monitoring & data collection for cloud apps. Support Standard Diagnostics APIs Built on...(read more)

PDC 2009 – SVC 01 – A Lap Around the Windows Azure Platform

Scott Golightly's Blog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:14:00 GMT

Azure contains 5 main pieces: 1. Windows Azure Application Platform 2. SQL Azure 3. Windows Azure platform AppFabric 4. Azure “Dallas” 5. Pinpoint marketplace? (I came in late and only saw the screen for a second so I am guessing this was the 5th element...(read more)

.NET Framework 4 Poster Available

Scott Golightly's Blog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

I have been working with a lot of really good people at Microsoft and we have come up with a poster that lists the important namespaces and classes in .NET Framework 4. You can download the PDF version of the poster from http://download.microsoft...(read more)

Office Diagnostics Part 2

Scott Golightly's Blog — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:20:00 GMT

I am following up on an earlier post . I ran Office Diagnostics again today. This time I was notified that it found 1 problem and fixed it. When I looked at the details it showed fixing something in the setup but didn’t tell me what. The funny thing is...(read more)

Office Diagnostics

Scott Golightly's Blog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:46:00 GMT

Yesterday and today InfoPath and occasionally Word was crashing. Out of nowhere after one crash I got a message saying I should run office diagnostics. It ran and did not find any issues. When I clicked on the continue button I was taken to http://office...(read more)

Windows 7 Extended Ecosystem Mostly Completed

Scott Golightly's Blog — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:27:00 GMT

In my last post on my experiences with Windows 7 I wrote how it helped me to find a driver and fix a problem I didn’t know I had. Today I have a slightly different take. I have been installing the important driver updates whenever they show up on Microsoft...(read more)

First Impressions of Windows 7 in Production

Scott Golightly's Blog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:54:00 GMT

I spent the weekend backing up Vista and doing a clean install of Windows 7. When I went to bed Sunday night I thought I had everything set up and ready to go but yesterday I kept finding things like printers that I had neglected. I haven’t installed...(read more)

Anxiously Waiting to Install Windows 7

Scott Golightly's Blog — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:16:00 GMT

Yesterday the release version of Windows 7 became available to MSDN subscribers. I got on and started downloading it about 20 minutes after it was available. The expected download time jumped around between 33 and 21 hours depending on the current download...(read more)