I managed to grab some time with Joe Morris a Lead Program Manager on the Windows XP Embedded team to discuss Windows XP Embedded SP2. There were two topics for discussion, both interviews have now been posted to MSDN Channel 9 What is Windows XP Embedded...

I wanted to bring your attention to the webcasts we'll be broadcasting on Solaris/Java/Windows/.NET interop over at this site. If you often find yourself in multiples of those realms, you won't want to miss this month long series of webcasts. Registration...

DUDE! What is up with the troglodyte faction playing Halo 2 some nights? Recently me and three of my friends were verbally assaulted by two separate groups. One group kept referring to us as "n******" (rude slang for African-American). I was flattered...

Looking over the Managed StrongName code for today's post, I've become dissatisfied with several things in the current code base, and I think that a bit of refactoring is in store for this project before its next addition. One of the major things is the...

My friend Stan Spots is setting up a code camp in greater PA scheduled for April 15th - 16th. Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/sspotts/archive/2004/11/17/259379.aspx

Check out http://www.therhogue.com/WinFX/ for some more Avalon 3D samples. Robert Hogue is an amazing developer and these are definitely worth checking out.

Rico is having some fun with GC.Collect() on his blog… I love reading the comments there.

The following white papers and articles have been updated for changes and new features provided in the upcoming Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (now in Beta testing): 1. Windows Server 2003 SP1 updates the Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies...

ok, here it is, the Don Box sound test over on MSDN Channel 9 – we were recording a session on giving a great demo and I wanted to make sure the sound was ok before recording the interview, I’m not sure Don wanted me to keep this snippet,...

When you create a new map in BizTalk Server 2004 through the Add New Item menu in Visual Studio .NET 2003, you are presented with a 3 pane window. On the left side is a link that says "Open Source Schema". Clicking on this link will open the Select Artifact...

Two white papers available from the Network Access Protection Web site have been updated to reflect the new plans to include Network Access Protection technologies in Windows Server "Longhorn," the next version of the Windows Server operating system and...

(Updated 12/3/04 for code refactoring ) Before letting another two months pass, its time to once again update the managed sn.exe port . Today's update adds three modes, each of which allow extraction of a public key blob from various sources: Flag Description...