MSDN Wiki is a new site that experiments with adding community content to our product documentation. We’ve built a wiki around the VS 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation that allows anyone to add and edit code examples, tips and tricks, and other...

I recently investigated a customer issue of incorrect time reporting with FileInfo.LastWriteTime and thought of sharing this information in the blog. In the customer case, the last write time was off by about one hour for some files. We depend on...

Another set of functionality we may want to add in Orcas are classes which can be an integer of arbitrary length, and a double of arbitrary precision (which could essentially be the arbitrary length integer with a decimal offset). Aside from this type...

This is my first week here as a program manager on the BCL team at Microsoft and what a week it’s been! I have to say, this team rocks! Everyone has been incredibly kind, welcoming, friendly, and patient with me as I get up to speed and learn the ropes...

If you’re trying to transfer the access rights from one file to another, the obvious way seems to be getting the FileSecurity object from one file and applying it to another through the Get/SetAccessControl methods. The following code sample attempts...

I recently got a question from a user about uninstalling a managed service. The service installed and ran fine. But after it was uninstalled using InstallUtil.exe /u, the service was still listed in the Services MMC console, just marked as disabled. Attempting...

The Base Class Libraries is exploring scenarios related to Time Zone support and we are very likely to have a solution for this problem in the next release. We have already received a lot of great feedback from an earlier post. There are several high...