The hardest thing about this feature is without a doubt the OS setup required. Most user problems are going to come from this. You need to make sure that both your client and your Server are set up to allow distributed transactions. To give you...

Steve Clark talked about usability of APIs, and a snag some users hit when writing against ADO.NET, and some possible ways to help. It should come as no surprise that I think the ideal solution for this problem relies on the editor. (Because my team makes...

Part 1 Part 2 Last week, I was trying to help Matthew with his custom pipeline component (see this newsgroup thread ) . To make a long story short, Matthew started from the custom pipeline component provided with BizTalk 2004 SDK (it gets installed...

Buck posted the preliminary plan on VSS->Hatteras migration, be sure to check it out if you currently use VSS and might be looking to make the change. The comments are mainly focused on the drawbacks - you lose VSS sharing and pinning. ...

Aleksei Guzev was scared by my last post on readability vs writability. I think what might have scared Aleksei (feel free to correct me if I am wrong Aleksei) is the thought that the results of this study would be used to make a case for adding a Count...

They've finally posted my thread lab handouts and code up on www.edccontent.com . So if you went to DevCon and need that material, you can get it now. The handout contains everything I talked about in my hands-off lab, but also has some details I didn...

So i wrote up my post on the results of the votes for new C# features and I tested out what the post would look like in a few browsers. I was pretty surprised to see how different the results were. I ended up with the table looking like this in IE: ...

The DVD ISO file (3.50 GB) for Visual Studio .NET 2005 Enterprise Architect Beta 1 is now available for download at MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Similar to the CD ISO releases last week, the download is available for the following subscriber levels : MSDN...

Here are some of the Security events taking place this week: Tuesday July 6th Chat: Programming with the Cryptography APIs 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Pacific time MSDN Webcast: Overview of XP SP2 for Developers - Level 200 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific...

Watched Memento last night with Neil. Strangely enough, he'd never seen it before. Of course, I was somewhat envious of him as this meant he got to experience a fantastic movie for the first time, and that's something you can rarely (if ever) do twice...

Let's face it Notepad is probably one of the handiest programs for Windows. Due to Notepad's compat size and because it is fast and easy to use I often use it as a text editor when I don't have time to open Visual Studio or any other tool to manipulate...

We're got a new series in the works. We've pulled together another webcast series with the help of the C++ dev team. Attend a few and see what you think. They're all live webcasts that you can attend. If you miss one, you can alway watch the recording...