Jay has a great post on readability vs writability. It's really important to take this into account when performing a usability review on an API. Don't just review the code that a developer has to write in order to accomplish a given task with an API...

In Popular patterns around events? , several folks mentioned that a usage example would be a good idea. As I put one together, I found some small changes to make to the code. Just goes to show you that thinking about your consumer is a good idea. ...

Vacation has rolled around. I spend this weekend at a pretty intense tournament and then take the rest of the week off to recover and vacationize. Have a safe and fun holiday weekend!

The Performance Tools are an integrated part of Visual Studio Team System, but they are also exposed as command line tools. One of these tools - vsinstr.exe is used to insert timing probes into your binary. These probes report information to us that...

I hate it when it goes slow. Everything has been blinding fast for months, and now its such a slow crawl that it is driving me a little over the edge. I'm not talking about the CPU, or the compiler or even my speedy sports car. I'm talking about my ability...

Random ramblings, thats what it is all about. If you like ADO.NET just a little too much (and I am not pointing fingers here), if you can read way too long paragraphs of badly separated sentences (I have no delusions about my literary abilities) and can...

For those of you who have been or are writing adapters a new white paper, "Adapters: A Developer's Guide" is now available on GotDotNET at http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/wsservers/bts2004/BTS2004AdapterDevGuide.zip . This was written by Kevin Smith...

**Updated 8/31 with new links to the official releases, replacing the links to the technology preview +++++++++++++++++++ .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Tech Preview Available for Public Download Today, Microsoft made technology preview versions of...

Hooray, I survived DevCon! The kernel talk and perf talk were ready to go by Monday, and after many short nights last week and this week, my lab was ready “enough” by Wednesday morning. The handouts are missing some screenshots and a lot of...

There's lots of great documentation on Internet Explorer available on MSDN. http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie is an excellent place to start. If you have feedback we'd like to hear it. What functionality are you finding difficult to find? What topics would...

Be sure to check out Kevin Smith's (kevinsmi) blog which appears to have just come out. He's an ok chap, although I think he misspelled my last name on purpose (since we shared an office for a year you'd think he'd know how to spell it). Hopefully this...

So I was surfing the web for some technical articles recently (which BTW happens to be one of my favorite pastimes) and I ran into this article by Peter A. Bromberg. In this article he covers a sample MSMQ implementation that sends a message (MSMQ message...