Jim Blizzard's Blog
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RDP to Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure
Wanting to try out some of the cross-platform support available in Azure (https://azure.com) and...
Date: 02/25/2015
Sleuthing a BSOD
Last week I (intentionally) paved my Carbon X1 by reinstalling Windows 8.1. I thought it would be...
Date: 06/04/2014
Microsoft’s shift to agile
Why has Microsoft adopted agile practices? Is it working? Has it been successful? A couple of weeks...
Date: 06/03/2014
C++ and SQL Server
A customer asked me this morning about connecting to SQL Server from C++. Had to dig a little, but...
Date: 06/03/2014
Keep up with the latest Team Foundation Service releases
Here's an always up-to-date list of all the releases that have been pushed into Team Foundation...
Date: 08/22/2013
Porting a simple Silverlight game loop to Windows Phone 8
We’re going to have a Game Hackathon tomorrow at the Microsoft Office here in Tampa. For a...
Date: 12/20/2012
Rolling with Team Foundation Service
This summer I had the chance to work on a Windows 8 Store reference app with a few of my colleagues...
Date: 12/13/2012
Windows 8 Dev Camp materials now available
The slides and hands-on labs materials (both JavaScript and C#) are now available for download. Trot...
Date: 05/18/2012
Curious about how to get your app into the Windows Store?
My Orlando Windows 8 Dev Camp co-presenter, Dave Isbitski, has written an excellent post about it....
Date: 05/15/2012
Windows 8 – Sharing and Searching
At the Windows 8 Developer Camp last week in Ft. Lauderdale, a couple of people asked me if...
Date: 04/26/2012
Want to keep up with Visual Studio 11 Beta news and info?
Here’s your must-have list of sites regarding Visual Studio 11 Beta. The Visual Studio team...
Date: 03/14/2012
Sneak Preview of Visual Studio 11 Beta .NET 4.5 Beta
If you haven't already heard the news, take a look at Jason's blog, Soma's blog, the Visual Studio...
Date: 02/23/2012
Have techie friends in Europe?
Let ‘em know that the Microsoft TechEd Europe session list has been posted here:...
Date: 02/15/2012
VS11 Developer Preview training kit now available
In case you haven't already heard the news. You can download it from here:...
Date: 10/18/2011
WcfTestClient.exe is missing???
If you’re trying out some WCF programming, there’s a nice little WCF test client...
Date: 09/04/2011
Team Foundation Server workspaces
Many developers who first start working with Team Foundation Server find it easy to get wrapped...
Date: 08/05/2011
Another “be what’s next” moment
In yet another instance of getting real, I just swapped out the backend database for...
Date: 07/29/2011
Have something you’d like to see in a future version of Visual Studio?
I just found out about the Visual Studio UserVoice site, located here:...
Date: 07/28/2011
How to: Visual Studio web performance tests – not using Internet Explorer
A client asked me how to create and run Visual Studio web performance tests using something other...
Date: 05/18/2011
Q: So, what does the Visual Studio ALM Roadmap look like? A: Sweetness
Jason Zander just posted a blog entry about the ALM roadmap for Visual Studio vNext. Read and enjoy....
Date: 05/16/2011
Fabulous resource for performance testing
If you’re into performance testing – and who isn’t these days? – and you...
Date: 05/13/2011
Hyper-V settings for a rocking fast VM
The other day I was doing a presentation in the Microsoft Tampa office. Unfortunately my display...
Date: 05/10/2011
Walking the walk. . .
In my job I do a lot of presentations. I try do to demos as often as I can, to make things a bit...
Date: 05/10/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available for MSDN subscribers
It’s here! There are updates to both the testing features and the code visualization & modeling...
Date: 11/16/2010
Day of Silverlight!
In case you haven’t already heard the buzz, there’s going to be a Silverlight Firestarter on...
Date: 11/12/2010
VS 2010 productivity power tools update
Somehow missed this from a couple of weeks ago. There’s a new version of the Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 11/09/2010
Hotfix for Microsoft Test Manager. . .
. . . is available. A number of bug fixes, some memory leaks plugged, etc. Download it from here.
Date: 11/07/2010
Setting up video recording for Microsoft Test Manager
A while back I posted a blog entry detailing some of the steps that were glossed over in the MSDN...
Date: 11/07/2010
Want to be part of the coolest team in the world?
We’re hiring in the New York City area. Job Information Requisition number: 737673 Position title:...
Date: 10/20/2010
Not an infrastructure person?
I’ll admit it. I’m not. Never have been. Reading about TCP/IP, subnets, etc, makes my eyes glaze...
Date: 10/07/2010
Microsoft Test Controllers and Agents – where’s the CD???
If you’re setting up a test environment for the new Microsoft test products, sometimes the MSDN...
Date: 09/28/2010
SharePoint developer? Here’s your one-stop shop
The SharePoint 2010 developer center at MSDN. Tons of links. Loads of resources. From there you can...
Date: 09/27/2010
So you need to move from the TFS 2010 Release Candidate to RTM bits?
Take a look at these links on migrating from the Release Candidate to RTM: TFS installation and...
Date: 04/27/2010
How can you move to VS 2010?
Now that VS 2010 has launched, you might be wondering how you can move on up to the latest and...
Date: 04/12/2010
MSDN downloads is just a bit busy today. . .
Typically I can download from MSDN at about 1,500 KB/sec. Today? Not even close. . . I wonder if...
Date: 04/12/2010
Getting started videos for Silverlight and Expression
Just ran across these getting started training videos. They’re all between 10 and 20 minutes long....
Date: 03/31/2010
ASP.NET MVC 2 released
Excerpt from Scott Guthrie’s blog: I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is...
Date: 03/12/2010
So you’ve been using VS 2010 and have something to say?
Here are some ways to provide feedback: A survey:...
Date: 03/04/2010
Slides from South Florida Code Camp Session
Thanks to everyone who attended my Code Camp session this morning. Sorry some of you had to sit on...
Date: 02/27/2010