I've had a love/hate relationship with DBGHELP.DLL for a long time, as reader of my MSDN column well knew. I love what DBGHELP does, but I hate when my calls to it fail and I have no clue why. One of the cool things about working at Microsoft is the...

Microsoft released a number of critical and important security bulletins today. You can get information about these at the Security Bulletin Search site. Here's a link to the bulletin summary for April 2005: Technical Microsoft Security Bulletin...

In my list of afterthoughts, the third item is performance. Why don't developers like thinking about performance from the start? It's clearly not for the same reasons as backup and security, since performance is about a product working well. Nobody will...

I just started a new subscription is Scientific American and my first issue caught me by surprise with this article about spam . David Heckerman, one of the authors, manages the group in Microsoft Research with which we collaborate on the algorithms in...

[English follows] Que vous soyez originaire du Maroc , du Congo , de Belgique , du Canada , de Suisse , de France ou de tout autre pays francophone, si vous aimez la langue française et si vous utilisez votre ordinateur pour écrire en français, ce...

Brian Goldfarb sent me an email pointer to the latest ASP.NET Support Voice posting. This one covers implementing an AJAX-style experience using XMLHTTP to asynchronously fetch data from a web service . I also just noticed that Brian's link to Bertrand...

There is a wealth of new training available in both physical lab and e-learning formats. Given that this training is in high demand, here are some links to the new offerings. New BizTalk e-Learning offerings from MS-Learning: 2434 : Introduction...

I've gotten a couple of questions lately on WSRP support and Sharepoint - here's some guidance I've gleaned from some experts in Redmond: Microsoft does not yet officially offer WSRP support, however the SharePoint team has developed two unofficial...

Interesting article on use web services to extend the functionality on InfoPath forms to non-InfoPath clients.... "This proof-of-concept article demonstrates how some functionality of a Microsoft Office InfoPath solution, based on a Web service, can...

In Visual Studio .NET 2003, the object browser allows you to browse all assemblies referenced by your current project.  In Whidbey, the object browser provides slightly different functionality, so stay tuned for Whidbey tips and tricks once beta...

Introductory guidance on how to write managed .NET code against unmanaged Office libraries - "interop" within the Microsoft product set, but interesting nonetheless. Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html...

Friday, April 15, 2005 11:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Presenter: Shankar Pal, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032271488&Culture=en-US