I was experimenting with the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service.  I had a simple console application and used the code found in the UserProfileManager documentation as a starting point.  But any time I tried to create a new UserProfileManager...

I was trying to remote into a Windows 7 Hyper-V guest from my Windows 7 laptop using my smart card for authentication. When I initiated the remoting session I made it all the way to the “Welcome” screeen, but then received the following error: “The system...

It’s nice to talk about things other than technology. A few weeks ago my wife, Laura, and I went home to visit my family. We ended up finding four puppies in the woods. Between the four of them they easily had 200 ticks and so many flees it looked like...

I posted an entry over on the FDCC Technet blog on how to best develop desktop applications. It can be found here . It covers the most common problems encountered when developing applications on the FDCC. Would you like to see other problems/issues discussed...

I’m lazy. It’s true. And I’m always looking for ways to be even lazier when developing software. I want my tools and build system to do as much heavy lifting and perform as many repetitive tasks as possible. In addition to being lazy, I’m also human...