My mentor James at Microsoft recently started a blog with the name "Progressive Development". It talks about best and worst practices of software engineering in the format of entertaining conversations between two figures Motley and Maven. I knew James...

Last time I wrote a post on MSDTC under Vista. Here I'd like to talk a general MSDTC issue, which is not Vista-specific. Internally MSDTC uses NetBIOS names and passes them to RPC to talk to remote machines. This requires both server and client to...