Since I installed SP2 on my machine, things have been great. I have not seen a pop-up ad for some time now and all is well:) I have just seen florinlazar's post about how the MSDTC is disabled by SP2 . As Florin has pointed out, this information will...

As posted by Denes : " Microsoft has released to CR1 of AuthDiag, a new IIS troublshooting tool designed specifically to assist with troubleshooting authentication. This is no ordinary utility in that it can help wtih diagnosing problems with NTFS, privledges...

"If you are an application or Web developer currently using Visual Basic 6.0, Visual InterDev 6.0, or ASP, and need a quick, flexible way to jump-start your .NET learning, these free sessions are for you. Each session has two components: a prerecorded...

With all of the talk about Visual Studio 2005 over the last few weeks, a number other announcements took place, including the release of Technical previews of Service Packs for all of the current versions of the .NET Framework: Download details: .NET...

There is a good debate going on over in the Whidbey product feedback site . I encourage you to go and chime in one way or another… The team is watching the thread there and looking for feedback. On the surface this looks like a simple issue (more...

I'm heading out to New Zealand and Australia at the end of the month to give our Intro ASP.NET 2.0 talks -- anyone reading going to be there?

At Microsoft one of our goals in developing software is that backwards compatibility when moving from one version of software to the next is high priority. However in certain cases the old behavior may be undesirable enough that we break compatibility...

Today, Microsoft made technology preview versions of the .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 available for developers to download so they can test their .NET Framework-based applications with these service packs applied. Though these are...

The first three articles in Jim Wilson's new “You Can Take It With You” column went live on MSDN recently. Here are the details: Windows Mobile - A New Era Has Begun http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en...

Riki, the dev behind Sprite Backup, posted an interesting document on his website which could save you a lot of time if you're getting started as a native Smartphone developer. Check it out . [Author: Robert Levy]

We had a little debate internally on the correct spelling for “can not” in exception message strings. One of the testers actually dug up a series of bugs where we changed one message back and forth several times. Well, I am happy to say that...

So I am digging through some MDX code tonight and I see a class I hadn't heard of before. I am thinking that it is a helper class that the SDK Sample framework has created, so I right click on the class name and select “Go To Definition“....