I guess I'm monopolizing the “Ledgard” search on google nowadays. Recently I received this mail from Justin Ledgard (no relation that I know of)... Hey, i just put my name into a search engine to see what would come up with and i got this...

There aren't many Commerce Server - based blogs out there, but we've got one now from Vinayak Tadas , a Microsoft developer. His entry about virtual catalogs caught my eye. Thanks, Vinayak. I must admit that I did not know about the materialization of...

Today, I had one of those moments of minor frustration where a 'feature' bugged me. So I tried to find a way to fix it and it took about 10 minutes to figure out and confirm it worked. That's about 9.5 minutes longer than I would have liked, so I figured...

I have just ordered Samurai Jack Season 1 DVD from the great virtual shop and seeing that this has a sales rank of 74, with every review at five stars reviews you can see why. A cult classic that I will inflict on everyone to the point of tears. Now I...

The Microsoft Solution for Internet Business v2.5 has shipped Overview The Microsoft Solution for Internet Business (MSIB) team is happy to announce that MSIB v2.5 has shipped and is now publicly available on Microsoft.com. MSIB v2.5 builds on MSIB...

I love managed code… the benefits of the virtual execution environment are manifold and very impactful , but if I had to distill it all down to just one thing, just two words to describe why Microsoft is building the CLR, the .NET Framework, WinFX...

Today Microsoft posted a paper discussing IPSec to the download center. I've been reading it tonight with great interest. You can check it out here: Internet Protocol Security for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating...

Pittsburgh .NET has a meeting on May 11th where Patrick Santry will talk about DotNetNuke Module Creation. They are meeting in their usual spot at Pittsburgh Technology Council ( directions ), and the meeting starts at 5:30 PM with a topic for beginners...

Carl Franklin , who presents the .NET Rocks shows, will be at Microsoft's offices in Malvern, PA on May 18th for a Philly .NET meeting. May is an unusual month for Philly .NET , because there's another meeting the very next day when ASP.NET Exposed...

Today, i watched students in my dojo (training facility) test for different purple and brown belt Kyus (rank or level).  My sensei (karate teacher or head teacher) said that i could retest for second brown or 2nd Kyu, since the kata (form or series...

My day job is teaching MSDN seminars, and I'm currently learning the new material for our May and June seminars. We're experimenting with a new format that is much more demo oriented, with much less PowerPoint. Instead of our usual format with two 90...

Delegates require information about the type that the method is associated with in order to make a call. In a single app-domain, this isn't a problem, because the server (the object firing the events) has access to the type information for the client...