Chris Green's Public Notepad

The 1394 FireWire driver was updated in the Windows 7 and some older 1394 devices may not be compatible with the new driver. The old driver is still available as highlighted here. This solved my initial problems with a Maxtor III OneTouch drive. See this...

Why? Because they can be thousands of times slower than method return values! Can you guess why? First here's an example of what not to do. (from the Patterns & Practices Guidance article ) static void ProductExists( string ProductId) { ...

This is a cut/paste of the material that was posted to my old blog site. The old site was nuked at my request. Some of the links may not work... Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:04 PM Demonstrations at Tech.Ed 2005 Australia Well Tech.Ed...

So much to choose from Microsoft .NET Framework Data Access from A to Z Advanced Windows Debugging Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET Creating Rich Internet Applications...

I publish this update each month. It is a summary of all the public information on the Microsoft.com website in one convenient document. I hope you find it useful. I'm not sure whether to continue to publish it to my regular contacts via email or to publish...

Congratulations to all the participants, finalists and winners in the 2008 Imagine Cup competition and a special hooray for the Australian SOAK Team winners of the Software Design category. What a great achievement and a great solution! Looking...

WorldWide Telescope and My new baby

Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Tool Kit (EATK) to the rescue! I highly recommend you take the time to check this out if you are at all involved in managing (or being managed by) architects. Enables IT Transparency Proactive Architecture Process...

Over the coming weeks I will be co-instructor on a facilitated BizTalk 2006 R2 self study course. I'll make an effort to blog interesting learnings along the way. Stay tuned BizTalkers...

Come to Tech Ed Australia and immerse yourself in over 150 IT learning opportunities, including deep dive technical sessions, hands-on and instructor-led labs and certifications.

AnnounceOnline() Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 is now available to MSDN subscribers on http://www.msdn.com . One exciting feature of .Net 4.0 is the inclusion of the WCF Discovery libraries which implement the WS-Discovery protocol. WS-Discovery provides...

Microsoft is planning another Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) this year! You can find recordings of the 2008 event and some preliminary information on the 2009 event here http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ and you can add your name to the PDC2009...

Just a few quick "note to self" type reminders when installing (not configuring, that's a longer tale) BizTalk 2009 on Windows Server 2008 ... - RTFM which you can get from here - Install the w2k8 service packs. You can get SP2 from here . -...

If you are using PowerShell in a production environment I'd love to hear about it. I'm updating material for the Australian TechEd 2007 PowerShell session and I'd love to include your success story. Please drop me a line with your opinion or war/success...

You may find my TechEd 2007 Powershell presentation useful. See the SVR308_Green.pdf attachment below. It covers: "What is Powershell"; "How to get started"; "Examples of Powershell in action"; It also contains some Q&A and tips...

Thank you to those of you who attended the Powershell session at the December 2007 Premier Briefing event in Melbourne Australia. I hope you found the session informative. I have attached the presentation slides and the demo script I used on the day....

Today seems to have been a " where's the value ?" day for me. I was fortunate enough to sit in on a Gartner presentation today by John Roberts where he put forward the observation of cost vs value in IT. In essence most good CIOs and IT managers know...

I have been reading up on Microsoft's involvement in academia recently (for reasons that I hope will become obvious soon :-)). There's a lot on offer. One great program is the Microsoft Student Partners. If you are a student with a passion for technology...

The Tech.Ed Australia Early Bird registration offer has been extended until 11 July '08. Take advantage of the $250 discount before it's too late. See you there!

Developers don't miss this opportunity! R egister now . See how easy it is to access and integrate Virtual Earth into an existing environment Hear from Johannes Kebeck , one of the world’s leading experts on the Virtual Earth platform....

These videos are worth a look http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/videos/

Out of pure curiosity I ran a very simple timing test for different WCF bindings: WSHttp (default), NetNamedPipe, NetTcp and local method call (i.e. no WCF involved). I didn't do any performance tuning. The client and server are both hosted on my laptop...

AnnounceOnline() (I just love WCF Discovery in .Net 4.0) Is BizTalk in your past, present or future? Mark Burch and I may be able to help you speed things up a little. Come to our " SOA311 BizTalk 2009 - Performance Tuning Tips " session at Tech...

ABOUT THE PDC The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft’s developer platform, exchange ideas...

You may already be aware of these resources but ... - You can find a pre-release version of the Microsoft TFS Quality Center Connector here https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=628&DownloadID=15667 . The corresponding...