The venerable James Newkirk has a nice post about VSTS integration . It came specifically in response to the “no unit testing in base VS?!?” blogging thread. The gist of it follows. Visual Studio Team System provides an environment which...

If you missed it last time around, here is you chance to stump the Wayward. Ask him your incredibly difficult to answer questions and he will answer them, guaranteed! This is no front for a quick google search. I'm talking about tapping the power of the...

Build 2149 is RC2 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx

An apology to anyone who has subscribed to my blog. I'm about to add categories so that I can start adding in the other things that I hadn't yet -- stuff about my life. Thus to make things easier, I've added two categories “Life” which is...

One of the biggest challenges for developers who need to automate programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc. is that they need to learn the object model learning about various collections and other objects in the target OM to do tasks. This is...

Release Canadidate 2 of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now available for download. Here's a link and a bit about it: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 Preview To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows...

There are numerous folks out there doing some really kewl stuff with the WSE 2.0 bits. Savas for instance has been doing work with Grid computing and now has an implementation of WS-Eventing coming down the pipe . What are your business needs? Have you...

Hi everyone! My name is Meghan Perez and I'm the development lead in charge of the Editor and Code Navigation space. I've been working on the VSCore Editor team for the past five years since graduating from the University of Notre Dame. I was also an...

http://news.com.com/Worm+ready+to+wriggle+into+smart+phones/2100-7349_3-5233517.html?tag=nefd.hed This one hits Symbian phones, not Microsoft smart phones. I wonder if someone out there is working on cracking Microsoft phones... Well hopefully all...

The ASP.NET 2.0 issue content from MSDN magazine is now online. Loads o' goodness. TTFN - Kent

I have to admit, I don't do much ASP.NET work, I mainly write Win32 apps in C++ and C#, but when I do use ASP.NET I invariably have to use the debugger. Mainly because I use the technology so infrequently. So here is the problem - I'm not an admin! When...

I was thinking about this a bit more and talking with Larry Osterman yesterday, and I came up with some perhaps slightly more germane tips on how to read and debug code that you didn't write. First, it is highly likely that the machine code...