Jim Hungunin posted a paper about an implementation of Python for .Net IronPython: A fast Python implementation for .NET and Mono http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/IronPython_PyCon2004.html In this paper, he started out trying to show...

Scott is doing a quick poll on what screen resolutions people use for development. It's an interesting question that our team has been talking about as well. As you may have noticed, our new emulators for VGA Pocket PC and QVGA Smartphone devices take...

WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) is Apple's yearly developer conference. The 2004 session descriptions are now available here , although the interesting sessions usually don't appear on the schedule until the first day when they make all their big...

Don Box is playing with HTTP.SYS via the new Whidbey managed framework on Windows XP SP2. If you are really sharp looking at the service dependencies, you will find our first user on XP SP2 is UPnP. Don does mention the problem about coexistence of IIS5...

I've been scratching an itch - of the coding variety. For some while now, I've wanted to catalogue all the Windows Media files that I've (legally) ripped over the last year or so, but documentation on MSDN or the broader Internet was scant. So I've...

If you've used the new Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition emulators with the .NET Compact Framework then you have no doubt seen this lovely message box: This is the message that appears whenever a CAB file is installed on the device which is not...

Over the weekend I bought an HP LaserJet 1012, the first printer I've had in years. Good printer at a great deal this week at Staples ($150). I let the driver install with all of the default options. After rebooting (sigh...) I was prompted with the...

Back when I was a wee young lad, fresh from college, I thought I knew everything there was to know. I’ve since been disabused of that notion, rather painfully. One of the best happened very early on, back when I was working on DOS 4. We...

One of the things that I think is so cool about the CLR is the fact that it is multi-language… The first commercially successful multi-language runtime environment. One of the things that I think is neat about that is we have to potential to survive...

Many of the security features I've mentioned in previous entries are opt-in, so if you have a custom application that hosts the web browser control you won't automatically be impacted by them. But what about the many great applications that host the web...

The other day, somebody asked me: How do I download a webpage, or other content from a webserver, where the content is stored using a specific encoding ? They want to do this using for eg: System.Net.HttpWebRequest Why is this necessary ? Well, for starters...

The new XML Developer Center on MSDN has a nice article about the new XML features in Whidbey . The top 10 list is: Performance XPathEditableNavigator, an Updatable Cursor The XPathDocument as a Better DOM Easier XPath Queries with Namespaces...