Archive for the ‘Win7’ Category

The Weekly Source Code 56 – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. They are better people than I. I like to explore it while watching TV myself and found myself looking through tonight. I checked my blog and while I thought I'd shared this with you before, Dear Reader, I hadn't. My bad, because it's pure gold . With C# and VB, natch. Here's an outline of what's inside. I've heard of folks setting up lunch-time study groups and going through…(read more)

Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown

Just about two years ago I joined Microsoft . I'm fortunate to work in a home office with a great team that I now lead . We work for the group at Microsoft that runs MSDN , TechNet , ASP.NET , Silverlight.NET , WindowsClient.NET , basically all the online education stuff. The giant group is called STO (Server & Tools Online) and our little group is " stoninja ." That's our internal mailing alias. We create content for all of the sites above but we're also active members of the community. We listen and drive feedback back into the product group. We're not part of the product evangelism group (DPE – Developer Platform Evangelism), but rather we focus primarily on online content creation. I like to think that we're…(read more)

Windows 7 RC MacBook Pro Score [Flickr]

Brad Wilson posted a photo:

Interestingly, my score went down from when it was taken with Windows Vista RC2.

RAM went up slightly, gaming graphics went down almost half a point. Everything else stays the same. Not sure why the RAM would’ve gone up…