On my way into work today, I realized that Seattle traffic is one of those human systems that visibly conform to the second law of thermodynamics… OK, that’s a gross oversimplification, but it’s still amazing to watch people intentionally...

Hi there. My name is Mario , I'm an Italian that is experiencing a wonderful time in a cool m s group. What do we do? We're building Visual Studio Tool for Office 2.0, aka VSTO 2. If we continue to add more words to the name, sooner or later a Sony Plasma...

Calling Load(AssemblyName) is not necessarily the same as calling Load(String). If the AssemblyName.CodeBase is not set, then they do do the same thing. So, if you've set the AssemblyName.Name, CultureInfo, public key token / public key and/or Version...

Having been at Microsoft for a little over four months now, I've started to get into the swing of the development process here. I've been mostly helping Something I've noticed is that writing code, performance tuning, or debugging is the easy part...

Office 2003 SP1 was released on July 27, 2004 . You can download it here. In addition to bug fixes, SP1 delivers advances in several key areas: Greater support for InfoPath . Easier and faster for developers to create InfoPath based solutions...

Now live on Technet (yes, that Technet -- they're part of the family now, so be nice). This seven chapter article is intended to: This paper provides guidelines for developing applications that use the directory and security services of the Microsoft...

Brad Myers from CMU was here today giving a talk which included some details of the Whyline system, a debugger that allows programmers to ask questions about the behavior of their application in order to be able to figure out what the problem is (there...

There’s some pretty interesting/entertaining blogs popping up over at IBM’s DeveloperZone, showing once again that imitation is a wonderful form of flattery…B-) I’ve been a “Boochie” for several years now, and even...

Well, I just got final confirmation on my MSDN Events schedule. I've listed them below. Hope to see you at one. 8/10 Richmond, VA 8/12 Raleigh, NC 8/17 Greensboro, NC 8/19 Charlotte, NC 8/31 Greenville, SC 9/2 Atlanta

This is the second in my series of posts on what the heck all these numbers mean in the profiler. In instrumentation mode, we give 4 varieties of statistics for each function in the reports: - Elapsed Inclusive - Elapsed Exclusive - Application...

Honestly, I haven't been able to try this one out since there is a restriction on the install if you have VS 2005 on the machine, but it looked to cool not to post it. Robert E. Weatherford left the following comment to the powertoys blog that describes...

It's pretty amazing to see how instant messengers have entered a lot of people's lives. Personally, I use it pretty heavily to communicate with people (esp internationally). I was having lunch with someone today and I mentioned how I think it's been so...