Here is a stylesheet to create an SVG representation of the structure of an XML document. Don't have an SVG engine? Adobe has a nice one (make sure you are logged into the machine as Admin to install it - not the domain). Caveat: unsupported - I haven...

So I have been asked to deliver training for a group of people on how to “read” source code. I guess I should frame this request a bit. With very large product such as Exchange there are millions of lines of code and no one knows everything...

Escalation Engineer JeremyK asks in his blog this morning : how do you teach people this “art” of digging deep very quickly into unfamilar code that you had no hand in writing? I myself, I come from a very traditional process...

I found a link to this one on the Visual Studio Team System home page. If you enjoy the application blocks created by the patterns & practices group (their page, oddly enough, doesn't have the link), you'll love the Logidex .NET Library. MSDN Lab...

Just a fortnight to go now until TechEd Europe. The schedule is now completed, the attendee website goes live this afternoon, and session voting has started. A quick explanation of session voting: when you log in to the attendee website for the first...

I have been a big supporter of threat modeling since a bunch of us started defining and using the process within Microsoft. It's a very useful way to determine how bad guys will attempt to compromise a piece of software, and define appropriate mitigations...

The Sydney .NET User Group is meeting this week. Adam Cogan (who is back from his barnstorming sessions at TechEd in San Diego) will look at a couple of cool things this month including: ASP.NET Whidbey Overview (ASP.NET Whidbey is the current...

I should not be able to type right now. I shouldn't be able to move my arm to lift my hand up to the keyboard. My arm should be too sore to do anything but hang limp from my shoulder. I think I have enough drugs to keep me going for the day, so I can...

Jan Tielens and Fons Sonnemans , names you're very familiar with if you're a SharePoint Wonk like me, created a very cool SmartPart WebPart : The SmartPart is a generic webpart that can contain an ASP.NET user control. Nothing new you would say...

I look away for just a moment, and when I look back, I see all these SharePoint posts on Amanda's blog! I've given you the category called “Microsoft Stuff” but as I've mentioned before, you really should be reading every post she makes -...

So, I spent some days rebuildling two of my machines in my office. One is my main dev workstation, and the other is a unit I use for meetings and for taking on the road. It's a Tablet PC, and it works pretty well. My main dev machine needed it most because...

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