Dan Rigby

Visual Studio 11 My Favorite Features: Improved Tooling in Visual Studio 11 for JavaScript Developers (Jason Zander) “I’ve been working on some coding projects lately, and spending a lot of time in Visual Studio 11. I wanted to start a series to share some of my favorite features that I’ve enjoyed using in the product. [...]

Windows 8 Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model (Building Windows 8 Blog) “We’ve written about tons of improvements in the OS kernel, networking, and file system. While for most client PCs, the tried and true chkdsk utility is one we rarely use anymore except in very rare circumstances, we are using Window 8 [...]

Windows 8 Top 10 Windows 8 Features #7: Client-side Hyper-V (ReadWriteWeb) “Server-side virtualization is a modern-day fact of life. Today’s data centers pool their processing, storage and even network resources to create macrocosmic virtual-machine entities that transcend the boundaries of hardware. We call that “the cloud.” With Windows 8, Microsoft extends its server-class hypervisor platform [...]

Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 11 beta – Tooling for SQL Server Compact (ErikEJ) “Visual Studio 11 beta includes SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 CTP1, as I blogged about here. In this post, I will describe in greater detail the tooling support included with Visual Studio 11 beta. Notice the Visual Studio 11 is in [...]

Windows 8 FAQ – DVD playback and Windows Media Center in Windows 8 (Building Windows 8 Blog) “We thought we would follow up the previous post with an FAQ which is based on the comments and discussions, so Bernardo put this together so things are in one place. Some of these might be introductory for [...]