For the most part, my posts are written in C#. Of the NetCF supported languages, C# is where I am most comfortable. Every once in awhile, however, I'll post a VB.Net related topic (this is my second). Today I thought I'd show a NetCF application written...

Last week, Nathan posted about the ConditionalAttribute . This got me thinking... What does his example look like under the debugger? To find out, I built a very simple application - a NetCF console application containing Nathan's two methods (foo and...

Earlier in this series , I mentioned I would talk a bit about threads... Commands re[sume] su[spend] t[hreads] Working with threads in CorDbg is pretty straight forward. The viewing an navigating of your application's threads is done using the t[hreads...

Back when I started at Microsoft, the big product was MS-DOS 5. Of all the features in MS-DOS 5, my hands down favorite (and one I still use today) was DosKey. You remember DosKey... It was the utility that made F7 one of the most useful keys on your...

Remembering numeric error codes is hard. Unless the error handling code is well documented, code reviews take longer and maintenance is more difficult as you may need to consult reference manuals, native code header files or online help frequently. Socket...