Another great 3D demo posted by Joe Beda of the Avalon team, including source code. Looking at the code, a few things jump out. The code is nicely componentized. The hosting .exe references the 3D object as a control, so that you could include the control...

Hey all, one of the feedback forms from the hands-on lab I presented about remote debugging indicated that you'd like to hear more information about how to use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter that I used to mimic a LAN connection within the local machine...

Someone asked this: What is the proper way to find the localised name of the "Program Files" directory? The SHGetSpecialFolderPath have no constant for this folder. I currently use the registry setting: HKLM/Pmail/Attachments/TopDir value ...

Maarten Mullender has just published his new article about service interaction and concurrency on msdn . Curious? Here’s the summary: “Create and work with software services and service interactions using design principles that will...

I'm sure many of you have seen it, but the Daily WTF is among the sites I check everyday (works well with the “daily” part). If not, check it out, it provides a new, amusing bit of computing wizardry each day. Today's hit particularly close...

Earlier, I posted some random thoughts and notes that I took at the first XP Embedded Ask the Experts session at last week's DevCon (see the post at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2004/06/30/170582.aspx ). I also want to post some stuff that I...

This past weekend, I performed the biannual ritual of backing up my home computer, reformatting it, and reinstalling just those applications that I actually need. Of course, I'll try my best not to install too many add-ons or trialware applications for...

Today, I saw someone asking other people to link to specific info on their blogs. I deleted the mail but it may have involved some product features or something. To me, it seems a little unusual to *ask” someone to link to your blog, but I may have...

For your multimedia pleasure, on Channel 9 , Dave Mendlen, Director of Web Service Marketing at Microsoft, talks about the idea behind Indigo and then talks about real world scenarios where Web services are being used successfully today . Or you can...

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Process As mentioned in the previous post, we had plenty of processes around the users in terms of understanding absolutely everything and anything that we could about how they used technology, how they took notes, what they did in meetings and back...

I've often seen questions in the FrontPage Programming newsgroup for code to programmatically open a page in a browser window that is of a specifc size. Of course, using the target attribute of the A element, you can easily open a new page in a new browser...