As some of you know, I am the MVP Lead for Commerce Server at Microsoft, and I help to moderate chats, and if any of you are interested in Commerce Server or use it, please join us. The Microsoft Commerce Server Team would like to invite you to join...

Bill Evjen somehow has become aware of (and shares with the world): Reuters RSS Feeds Released! Now I can get my fill of “ Oddly Enough ” all the time... TTFN - Kent

Kevin Kelly has just started blogging about Visual Studio Team System. Kevin and Brian White are both Program Managers for the Work Item Tracking component of Burton that I'm working on - so look out for some interesting posts from both of them.

I am a big fan of risk management in all projects. It is however generally rare to see risks identified when developing an enterprise architecture. On the one hand, this seems to make sense. Enterprise architectures are there to address the shared risks...

Moving, et al My date with the moving van went well ... sort of. Long story, short: I bought my first house and moved from an almost 1500 square foot condo to a less than 1000 square foot house. I comfort myself with the knowledge that a house is a...

As usual when you sit down and write your first bit of code in a new language or in this case a new unit testing framework what else would you write other then the tested version of Hello World (thanks to Scott Densmore ). In this case the unit testing...

At iP3 we are using OJB.Net for object relational persistence. It is really easy to use, but it was using an ArrayList by default and we wanted to use the new Whidbey Generics List<> type. When OJB.Net creates objects out of the relational data...

Its not an uncommon request (in fact I got one in email today) to want to receive: 1. Non-XML data in a receive-port 2. XML messages of differing XML schemas within a single receive port So how do you do that with BizTalk Server? 1. Set the...

Big thanks to Peter Gutmann and Morten Andersen for their comments.I have highlighted what's new in RED . Errata for Writing Secure Code 2 nd Edition By Michael Howard and David LeBlanc Last Updated 2-Jun-2004 Entire Book Please replace...

When you’re writing a windows application, there are often times that you need to signal your UI thread that an event has occurred. One of the ways to do this of course is to post a message to a window on the UI thread. But sometimes using a window...

I have been using Resharper for a while and until now I have stopped using it, but with version .83 I am very excited. Extract method is here… and it works. I am still a little upset with the loading of the solution and it seems to take a while...

A reader asks, Sender: Erik Brendengen Is there an easy way to convert from String^ to std::string? Does String ^s = std::string( “bla”).c_str(); work the other way? This is a FAQ, one that I myself bumped into when I...