Obtained this info today, placing here for reference :) These are the definitions used by the WSS and FP client in summary usage reports (which are stored in the web metainfo): visit: a “total hit” that does not come from within the same server; that...

Prior to Whidbey, interop with Win32 handles was done by passing IntPtrs back and forth through P/Invoke. This had several drawbacks including: Lack of type safety. Nothing is preventing me from taking an IntPtr containing a HWND and passing it to a method...

I started to watch that series during the second half of season 4, this year. Last time I was that hooked to the TV was during Jean-Luc Picard reign... Long before that, it was The Prisoner , The Avengers and then way before that, Captain Kirk reign....

From C# Builder to C# User... Dateline: Redmond , Building 41 Eric Gunnerson called me early this morning, asking me to come by to talk with him. When pressed, he would only reveal that he had news to impart that would “Rock the very foundations of society...

Well, aside from a few crusty individuals out there who loathe all things MSFT, the media seems to be pretty positively inclined towards SP2. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5306235.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/12/winxp_sp2_stop_moaning/ Though...

Not many people know this, due to the complete lack of information in the Windows Mobile 2003 SDK, but Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 2003 devices DOES support CSS! Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 2003 supports CSS Mobile Profile plus a few additional CSS1 and...

I did not know about that Image File Execution Options key: http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/archive/2004/08/12/213596.aspx

Someone recently asked me a regular expression query and I thought it was interesting and post it as an example here. They wanted to find all occurances of the following style of XML: <foobar> < property = "blah" /> </foobar> And they...

Go ahead and check it out here when you have a spare 20 minutes. Of course the WSE 2.0 adapter technical preview is still available - go to www.microsoft.com/biztalk and follow the instructions to get to betaplace off the link. Thanks to Erica W for her...

Ok, I know I said when I started this blog that I wouldn’t be going into the support aspects of my job much, but I lied. I can’t resist being an armchair quarterback, so I am going to warm up my arm today, and start tossing Hail Mary’s tomorrow. Just...

I should explain my by-line a bit and introduce myself into the blog-sphere. I'm probably not your typical MS employee in that my entire life has been spent developing and architecting on non-MS platforms. I actually started work life as a Mainframe system...

We've been thinking about shutting down several internal technical discussion aliases and forcing these discussions into the public space so that every developer can benefit from the Q and A that occurs on these aliases. I know this would be a HUGE win...