In my "free time," I'm putting together a .NET service to do quick surveys. This means: Weekly polls! Maybe a Friday thing? Today's question: Which mobile device type do you use? [Author: Dave Stewart]

If you ever have to a PowerPoint presentation, you should subscribe to this feed . This one is seriously high on the signal/noise chart… Would you be willing to let go of the steering wheel of your PowerPoint vehicle for a minute, if it meant you...

There's a sneak preview of Samsung's Portable Media Center over at Sorobangeeks.com . It's in French, but the specs seem to be 20GB hard drive, 3.5” screen for 500Euros. Pretty nice looking! You can preorder the Samsung and Creative Labs Portable...

Now that Beta1 is out, I'd like to draw attention to the little known new debugger feature called tracepoints. What are tracepoints you ask? Well tracepoints are a cure for a couple of things I found myself doing countless times while tracking down nasty...

The " Using the Windows Firewall INF File in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 ” white paper has been updated. Changes include the new default Netfw.inf file, the new format for specifying excepted programs and ports, and the new scope syntax...

Don Box calls HTTP the cockroach of protocols . He's probably right. It'll be around forever, and seems to go everywhere .

Yesterday I saw Dbox talking about service orientation, he was comparing different transport mechanisms as: HTTP / HTTPS (ASMX approach) DCOM (Com +) MSMQ (NT Service) Note Remoting is not in the list, this is because Don didn't like...

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...

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...

In a recent post, Tablet PC Development Manager, Philip Su , talked about the ups and downs he’s seen in Microsoft’s ability to attract the best technical talent over the course of the last few years . As someone who was a college student...

A few weeks back, I mentioned the Crypto API team was having an online chat. It got postponed from the original date, but has finally been rescheduled to next Wednesday, July 7th. The chat will be from 11:00am to noon Pacific time (6:00-7:00pm GMT for...

saw on MSDN web site Try the FotoVision Desktop Application Learn to easily share photos on the Web with a variety of .NET technologies including Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Web services, and the .NET Compact Framework.