Oh what fun XP SP2 was for the debugger team! The firewall defaulting to On obviously completely broke Remote Debugging, and the DCOM changes broke it even more. Kept us busy for a long time. Well Gregg , mostly. The results are threefold: A...

This post was inspired by a case I worked recently. In this case, the customer was using the 5.5 Event Script service to autoaccept meeting requests. They weren't having any problems with their script or scalability. Their problem was that the service...

Every blog must have a first post and this is mine... I'm an old-timer in the software biz (I was around five years before there was a Microsoft!) and now I'm a new Microsoftie! I’m part of a group MS calls US Partner Services which helps "partners" of...

It seems that you can no longer make comments on my post -- Diagnosing 'The debugger is not properly installed' . Feal free to leave new comments here.

More and more focus from corporate is being put on helping Microsoft ISV’s, which definitely makes my job more enjoyable! One of the new initiatives is ISV Community Days , a quarterly event focused on delivering technical and business content to...

Been asked a few times - the answer is http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/emeaorder/default.aspx (cost £3) Enjoy :-)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Solutions Make it Easier for Canadian Retailers and Manufacturers to Manage their Inventories and Track and Ship Merchandise Microsoft Brings Together Major Partners Delivering RFID Solutions on the Microsoft-based...

Well... just completed a WebCast... you can search for all our web casts at http://www.microsoft.com/webcasts . Here is a link to the Demo files for that web cast... http://www.wjsteele.com/demos0820.zip . Download the presentation from the webcast itself...

Wow... what an event. Rory did an excellent job (even though he thinks he did bad.) It's going to be fun when he gets up to speed... I think I'll have some competition (sorry Russ and Joe!) Next week, no events... I'll be in Redmond working on my tan...

UPDATE : Welcome Slashdot visitors. I'm not sure how to submit a correction to slashdot, but I am NOT the person responsible for the WIX/WTL projects. I site them as examples and am working with people who where responsible for those projects to enable...

The update published in our GotDotNet Workspace for Updater Application Block fixed the BITS based downloader included in the block. It doesn't include any intelligence to determine which the installed version of BITS is and act accodringly. A smarter...

3D is all well and good, but it gets really interesting when you can animate things. It turns out that adding animation to 3D models in Avalon is extremely easy. I modified my application (which bit by bit is turning into a 3D designer) so that you can...