Julie Lerman writes "...The study found that the teams with the 50/50 balance of men & women were the ones who most prominently displayed the facets that lead to innovation. They didn't spike off the charts, but they were consistently a little higher in each category...She also talked about stereotypes and used as a great example how Nokia made their cell phones pink as a "feature" for women..."

Sara Ford writes "Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested 2005 myself. Warning: To enable this tip, you’ll need to modify your registry settings Follow the instructions below at your own risk."

VB Team writes "The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception...Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the following..."

Eileen Brown writes "I’ve just seen the viral video advertising Windows 7 and the PDC this year. We do seem to be getting a bit of a name for videos that make you talk… cringe… react…"

Julie Lerman writes "...I participated in the 3rd Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinner...About 30 or 35 people showed up. The GGD is run by three women...this talk which was aimed at inspiring the women to take advantage of the many learning opportunities out there to enhance their knowledge and/or their career...offered a lot of tips for getting to conferences. We talked about participating in forums.."

VB Team writes "...great How-Do-I videos...to get you started! There are four different categories of videos, and they all include Visual Basic code available for download."

Lori MacVittie writes "In a nutshell, Microsoft allows hosting of BizTalk activities in the cloud at BizTalk labs. Developers then integrate those cloud hosted activities into a BizTalk workflow (orchestration) by calling them as they would any other web-based service or hosted activity...While the first definitions of cloudbursting are focused on reactive capacity management, Microsoft appears to be taking a proactive approach to cloudbursting..."

INETA Community Activities writes "Microsoft Learning has released a collection of valuable offers for the INETA user group community. Get the Microsoft Learning products that you want for less. Take advantage today..."

Sara Ford writes "Although the documentation for this option says that this applies only to VC, it seems to work for me within C#, VB, and C++. Maybe because I have them all in one solution..."

Julie Lerman writes "Today's time-sucker was not Crystal's fault but the fact that when I installed the earlier version of Crystal on to the laptop, I had done it from an external drive. When I tried to install the newer version, it chugged along then said that it failed because it couldn't uninstall the previous version. I attempted to do the uninstall myself..."

Lori MacVittie writes "...None of the research cited ever discusses the number of virtual servers running, just the number of organizations in which virtualization has been implemented... there just doesn't seem to be any real data to back up the claim that virtual sprawl is - or will become - a problem."

Beth Massi writes "If you need to build a quick web site against a database then you should definitely check this framework out..."

Sara Ford writes "Try as you might, this will never work on non-VC projects. Makes me wonder why the label doesn’t just say Visual C++ projects. Probably a historical reason for it. These are some MSBuild blog entries I found on building projects in parallel using MSBuild. if you know of more..."

Julie Lerman writes "When you query an entity that has a parent, for example an OrderDetail, that query will go over to Order so that EF can build the related EntityKeys. This is because when OrderDetail is materialized, it will need to populate..."

Lori MacVittie writes "Consider the case of BusinessWeek's infected site; a week after discovering the infection and vulnerability, the site was still not protected...A WAF could have protected that site within hours - if not sooner - of the vulnerability being discovered...A good WAF solution will also provide basic defenses against layer 2-7 attacks..."