Upcoming MSDN Webcast s: July 2004 These technical webcasts are presented by an army of knowledgeable industry experts. Subject Matter Experts from the industry demonstrate, discuss, and answer questions on the latest developer tools from Microsoft...

Details for this can be found on the XP SP2 RC2 Readme file . i.e. you see one of the following errors: For 32-bit servers: Error 2, Access Denied. For 16-bit clients: 0x80010104: RPC could not call the server or could not return the results of calling...

As Scott Woodgate has pointed out, due to the lockdown of the XP Worstation with SP2, some of the services for Biztalk are disabled. Read here for more. Also, futher details for this can be found on the XP SP2 RC2 Readme file

For the skinny on how the security enhancements in XP SP2 is going to change DCOM, COM and RPC, go here

I recently installed Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and wanted to understand what I had to do to get NUnit running. NUnit installed without a problem. Cool, instinctively I did what I do every time I install NUnit, I run NUnit's tests. All 478 NUnit tests...

Many years ago, Valorie and I gave money to a gun-control initiative in here in Washington State (a friend and former boss was heavily involved in the campaign). It went down in flames, but not before I got put on the Democratic Party's mailing list as...

Looks like I'll be taking the long flight down to Auckland, NZ and Canberra Australia to speak at TechEd 2004 under the developer tools banner. This week, I'll start the speaking preperations - I suspect it will take me around three weeks to perfect the...

Howdy, Everyone! I am just back from an 8 day trip to Amsterdam where I gave 6 sessions (and helped with one more). It was an exhausting trip with little sleep and I am happy to say I actually saw a bit of the beautiful city of Amsterdam on Saturday...

Required Reading for debugging managed application http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dbgrm.asp , download the pdf http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=45155 Essential Debugging...

Theme weeks are a whole week of webcasts around say Visual Basic.NET or ASP.NET. We ran a pilot in January 2004 and saw that folks really liked the idea. So now we try to host a theme week a month on MSDN Webcasts . If you've got ideas on what we can...

Joe Hummel is an associate professor of Computer Science at Lake Forest College , a trainer of .NET for DevelopMentor, and an avid sailor. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California , Irvine , and has been working with DevelopMentor...

After being announced last week, beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 has just become available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . If you have an MSDN Universal license, go get it now!