I just finished writing last month's Extreme XML column* entitled The XML Litmus Test: Understanding When and Why to Use XML . The article is a more formal write up from my weblog post The XML Litmus Test expanded to contain examples of appropriate and...

Flashback: July 2004 - I have a party to celebrate moving into my new place. The snack selection included one bag of Rold Gold pretzels. At the conclusion of the party, all of the chips were gone, but there was still half a bag of pretzels. I don't have...

We're having a week long meeting for the Microsoft Architects from around the world, this week, and the first sessions started today; Sunday. I'll be speaking on Monday, then off to the SWIFT annual SIBOS conference to talk about convergence of Industry...

I’ve had a number of people ask me how to get Outlook to shutdown properly when you create a managed add-in for it. I alluded to this issue briefly in my last blog . The OnDisconnection method you implement in your add-in’s implementation of IDTExtensibility2...

GamePC.com have a write up and screen shots of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - looks pretty cool. Having the functionality of a Media Center PC based on Windows XP Embedded would be kinda cool, a device that boots directly into the Media Center...

I got this one from a reader down under… I gotta say, it pretty much had me stumped, so I thought I’d share it with you… Compile the following code and you get this error message: Cannot create an instance of the abstract class or interface 'IFoo' interface...

一直以来，看 PDF 文件的时候，我的习惯就是用鼠标拖着滚动条，或是直接拖动，然后滚阿滚阿的。直到最近，发现原来可以使用 Ctrl + L 键，来像 PPT 一样放映。这不就是 Word 再加上 PPT 的功能吗？这个功能很不错！ 放在这里和大家共享。

So, how does this start... oh yes, a call to the IT helpdesk mid-week Me - "Hi, my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC Hard Drive is making very loud knocking sounds" Helpdesk - "We will send a Tech over to take a look" (or have a listen!) A few of your earth minutes...

Just trying to catch up on email and ran across this series of Webcasts that have been put together! What a great set of content and information.

People ask “why can’t a native debugger debug managed code?”. The reason is that the CLR provides a lot of cool services beyond what you get in a typical native C++ app, such as: running on a Virtual Machine / JITing, Dynamic class layout, the type-system...

During my most recent event in Madison, I got one question and one observation that I felt were particularly worth sharing out on my blog. Both the observation and the question took place during the Optimizing Web Applications session. The observation...

A week or two after David Ornstein released FlexWiki to SourceForge, Mike Gunderloy reflects on the issue (or is it a non-issue?) of WikiVandalism. [Mike Gundleroy] "...the news of FlexWiki's relicensing was picked up by the "News for Nerds" Web site...