If you're interested in learning about memory management best practices in C-Sharp, I'll be doing a talk tonight at the Microsoft Alpharetta offices: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/southeast/alpharetta.asp ... at this months the...

Sometimes we are just so focused on the task at hand, we miss some really cool stuff right under our noses. Microsoft is such a big place, many times you don't hear about great work being done around the company by other teams. Recently, I was asked to...

I was asked by one of my blog reader to write on interview tips. Here are my broad thoughts on the topic. In last six months time I had chance to interview close 30-40 candidates. Most of the people had issues on similar lines.... Be sure about what you...

MSDN WebCast : MSDN: Writing Secure Code (Part 1 of 3): Threat Defense (Level 200) When: 1:00 PM Central Standard Time http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032269989&Culture=en-US Is your code secure from attackers...

Similar to timed message boxes, but much, much simpler....

Dan McCarty has started a blog that tracks a Windows CE project – the initial posts are leading up to why Dan chose Windows CE for the project… it’s an interesting read, can’t wait to get to the point where Dan is doing something...

Hi, Again in the scalability lab recently we were seeing a number of errors being raised by the SOAP adapter – some of them were down to the remote Web Service cowering in the corner when the might of BizTalk hit it all at once J We were seeing a mixture...

Following on from my previous posting on Logging and Instrumentation and to address some confusion recently amongst customers, how does the new Enterprise Library relate to the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework ? The Enterprise Library is the latest...

The last time I owned a Palm device was in 2000. Since then I have used a variety of Pocket PC devices, and for the last few years I've tried one Pocket PC Phone and owned two Smartphones. My friends laugh at me cause the most important function of my...

Auf diesem Wege versuche ich den Kontakt zu finden dessen Email Adresse ich eigentlich kopiert habe, nur das Clipboard hat gemeint das wäre nicht der Fall. Das Print-To-Pdf hat heute nicht einwandfrei funktioniert, ich hätte die Präsentation...

The issue of concurrent outbound Web Service calls being throttled to two per endpoint comes up again and again with unmanaged and managed code – and it embarrassingly bit me last week in a BizTalk Performance and Scaling exercise despite me harking on...

(Recycling some electrons for a fun bug that can still be reproduced in the latest versions and service packs of VB and VBA <= 6.x (despite all the pressure I was able to muster in my position of unimportance!). To see this article in English, go to...