Building a Test-Driven Development Example According to Jonathan Cogley , Test-Driven Development (TDD) is gaining in popularity . James Newkirk , Peter Provost and Brian Button are working on a new TDD example named Bookmark Collection. You can catch...

Severeal common user settings and policies can be set using gpedit.msc (Group Policy Snap-in). This includes desktop, start menu, taskbar, contorl panel, logon, network and power management related settings etc. Have you ever wondered how to remove logoff...

After spending Monday morning exploring Shunjuku, I had meetings and dinner with the local architect evangelists followed Tuesday morning by a meeting with the local evangelism lead. (which was in turn followed by a flight to Kuala Lumpur which is why...

Microsoft held its company meeting today. I always love to tell the story about the first company meeting I attended. It was two years ago in the Fall of 2002. They held it at Safeco Field and it was one of the greatest experiences I ever had. 20,000...

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If so you must see this : Tune in and learn how to build Microsoft Windows Forms applications and Smart Clients in Microsoft .NET. We will take you through all the steps to build an application, as we cover object oriented concepts and delve deep into...

I posted information here earlier today about how to detect which service pack is installed for the .NET Framework 1.1 (and will also be able to be used for future versions of the .NET Framework). Since then I've done some additional research to figure...

It’s a rite of passage on the Gulf Coast to be a part of a major hurricane. Most of the people I’ve talked to today think I’m crazy that I wish I were home for Ivan. But they have never lived through hurricanes like we gulf coasters have. There’s something...

It's been difficult to focus on work lately, let alone find the time to contemplate something worthy of a blog post. The distraction of the presidential race is too compelling. My wife and I are glued to the television, CNN, FOX, MSNBC. I'm starting to...

Overview You can use the beta version of VSMT to create images of physical computers and deploy them in virtual machines running on Virtual Server 2005. With VSMT, you can migrate source computers running the following operating systems to virtual...

Yesterday I discussed the format of an ACL. For todays post, I want to talk about how the system uses ACLs to perform access checks. Once again, the post on security terms is likely to be helpful. There are two forms of access check accessable from the...

I've been thinking about the levels of abstraction that Martin Fowler defines in software development: a conceptual view, a specification view and an implementation view. These levels of abstraction reach far above "workflow" into the realm of Business...