Those wild and crazy PAG guys are at it again... Summary: This guide provides end-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout your application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. It provides a framework...

Three weeks ago the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 was made available as a free download. It's the full optimizing compiler. That's pretty cool. It doesn't include the IDE, though people have used it to replace the non-optimizing compiler in the VS...

All my life I have greatly valued challenging conversations. I’ve also come to know only a few people with which to engage is such discussions. My team manager is one of those “special” few. In a recent discussion we were engaging in...

This might be old news, but while my younger brother was out here interviewing he demonstrated for me on his laptop the Euchre client/server that he wrote for his CS230 “Fundamentals of Computing 3” course. (Euchre is a card game). The fundamental...

We generally make the assumption that carbon and water are fundamental ingredients required for the advent of living systems in the universe. Given that all the data we have to work with is based on the behavior of biologic systems operating on the surface...

Back in April, WiX code was released to Sourceforge under the shared source initiative. Today, I saw that Windows Template Library (WTL) is now part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, which will allow people external to Microsoft to contribute...

Jan has just announced that he created a project with the modifications needed to build and run Rotor on versions of MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows that were released since Rotor was shipped. This servicing project is available at http://servicing.sscli.net...

I wanted to write my own design pattern article but this one is really good. Those of you who are interested in design patterns will really find it useful. http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/SinagaStorageExplorer.asp Please fell free to reply with...

Given the following WSDL, how does your .NET proxy and stub look like? As always, answer and explanation will follow… Note, it’s rpc-literal … <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8"?> < wsdl:definitions targetNamespace...

The answer to Issue 7 is the following: < wsdl:binding name ="CalculatorSoap" type ="tns:CalculatorPortType"> < soap:binding style ="rpc" transport ="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/> < wsdl:operation name ="Add"> ...

You won't even see this stuff in the next tech preview drop! Marie , who works on my team, has been doing some PM work around easily pulling community content into Visual Studio. I think of this as enabling VS to be a more living product. Anyway, I asked...

Nora felt as if she stood on the threshold of her destiny. Beyond the door was an immaculate oval chamber. The walls were cut from marble, the floor tiled with jade and ivory, and the ceiling high and arched with an elaborate mural made from colorful...