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A few days ago I was working on a repro I got from a customer as I very often do, and for some reason after a while my IIS started to behave oddly, pages where not served, the application pool was stuck doing “something” and whenever I tried to open the IIS Manager I got the error “There was an error...

I wrote about why GDI+ is not supported in a service a couple of years ago but this is still a debated topic (or I should better say a misunderstood topic), then WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) came into the game and it brought some more uncertainties with it. Recently I worked on a custom application...

I was discussing this morning with a customer, here’s a useful reminder to this post if you need to deal with “legacy” .evt logs on Vista/Win2008. wevtutil epl application.evt application.evtx /lf:true Carlo Quote of the day: That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... - Charles...

For my work I have two desktops and a laptop I always bring with me, and  despite all the online synchronization tools out there ( SkyDrive , FolderShare , Groove , Mesh etc…) I’m used to SyncToy to keep my important files and folders updated across the three machines; The same is true for my backup...

If you have a dual boot machine like me (I installed Vista and Windows 2008 on one of my desktops in office) and you’re tired of synchronizing your Favorite folders like I was, here’s a quick trick: open the registry editor (as usual be careful!) and set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft...

I guess some of you might have developed a web application which, among other functionalities, prints some kind of report; and sooner or later you might consider to move the application to a 64 bit machine. At this is what this customer did. They had this ASP.NET application which allows the user to...

I've been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I'm not happy to have services and programs running when they want, instead of...

This is an easy (and maybe already known) one for this hot summer day: how can you know if a process on Vista is running as ad Administrator or as a user? Process Explorer will tell you:   Carlo

Wow, this has been a tough one I closed this afternoon. The customer has developed a custom IE toolbar to interact with their portal, and found that when running this on Vista, IE displayed a warning dialog asking the user's consent to run an external program; in particular that was happening when the...

My colleague Feliciano Intini (Chief Security Advisor here at Microsoft Italy) just pointed me to his post were he comments about a news which is (re)spreading across the web about a security hole in the recovery console in Windows Vista: if you can read Italian here is the post , otherwise go on an...

If a picture is better than 1000 words, what about a 3 minutes video? Lot of new stuff is coming for web developers: take a look, smile and download And here is a post about what's new in IIS7 on this release.   Cheers

Now I understand why I have troubles viewing the electronic MSDN Magazine , have a look at this post from Chris Crowe... But I have to say that usually when I'm in that condition, expanding the content tree on the left and clicking on another topic solves the problem, at least on my machine... never...