One of the things people like about VS2005 is that you can create projects and not save them until you hit, er, File/Save. Keeps you from getting those WindowsApplication1 thru WindowsApplication5999 directories. Anyway, via Rick Strahl's weblog , here...

I’m finally jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve created a blog and I’m posting my first entry, so here goes… My name is James Conard . I’m a Technology Specialist (TS) with Microsoft’s Communications Sector ( http...

Thanks to Greg Robinson for pointing it out, here's an interesting article about writing wrapper classes for stored procedures.

So the crux of bloggin' is to be able to blog frequently about what's on your mind when it's still there for you to blog about. That means that I need to increase my frequency a bit since it has taken me 3 months to get around to creating this, the...

I just got back from dinner with another friend ( The-oy ) who schooled me on the OO mistakes I made in the lazy loader . The problem stemmed from the fact that I was trying to conver the following functional type into an OO one. # type 'a optional...

I'm sure many of you may have already found this, but I wanted to link to an interesting article that Mike Hall wrote last month about using Microsoft Virtual PC to test XP Embedded images - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en...

Valorie works as a teacher's aid in a 6th grade classroom at a local elementary school. They've been working on dividing fractions recently, and she spent about two hours yesterday working with one student trying to explain exactly how division of...

I just had an interesting discussion with one of the testers in my group. He had just finished filing a series of bugs against our components because they weren’t failing when he passed bogus pointers to the API. Instead, they raised a 0xC0000005...

Tengo algo de información sobre blogs de esta semana, los 10 “smart clients” más populares para el desarrollador, las nuevas reglas para usar Enums (preety cool) y para mis queridos maestros algo de currícula sobre Rotor/CLR...

The June 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/default.aspx with the June installment of the .NET Matters column available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/NETMatters...

Whidbey Web Forms Editor team has beaten Whidbey Beta 1 performance goals! Test Machine: PIII600/128MB, W2K Pro FAT32 Scenario (Unit) 40512 Beta1 Goal Diff Beta1 Bound By Designer -> WebForm -> VB -> PortalSDK_Add] (Unit...

My MS buddy Dirk did it. After months of hard thinking he finally moved his NNTP.NET Provider to a workspace at GotDotNet. Thanks for sharing this implementation and I’m excited to see how the community will get up to speed with this project.