A customer recently requested a briefing on a list of topics related to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). In response, we had a LiveMeeting call, during which I used the attached slide deck as the talking points. Since...

A couple of years ago I was showing a customer how to configure ASP.NET for use in a web farm. Part of the procedure requires you to adjust the <machinekey> element in each server to the same settings, so that the ASP.NET encryption logic is using...

A customer recently sent me a long list of questions with a generally skeptical tone. Since I spent a good deal of time generating a written response, I thought it would be useful to share it with readers of this blog. Note that this is my representation...

The new MSDN Wiki encourages contributions from users in order to improve the documentation of Visual Studio and other developer products. I decided to give it a try and so I tacked my words of wisdom onto the LoginView class description. It’s something...