Continuing on a theme, today we talk about Elivs and E&C. We don't have a good way of measuring how Elvis uses E&C, since C# has never had the feature in a released product. So, what I say here is even more likely to be wrong than normal. Elvis...

For those of you living in the Southern Hemisphere, some parts of Europe and Asia : The LINEAR asteroid survey found an asteroid that is passing within 3.4 Earth diameters around 5:08PM EST . So, those of you with a nice pair of binoculars or a telescope...

“Sipping from the Firehose” is Microspeak for, 'I have 111 documentation issues (ahem, bugs) to fix, program managers from three feature teams knocking down my door, seventy topics in tech review, another fifty in the queue, 950 topics from...

I presented some demos at this year's PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) Community Summit on how to use the rskeymgmt utility in Reporting Services. This is a crucial tool and should be used after every Reporting Services installation. What...

So aside from all the marketing talk, I'll try to share a little bit about myself , what I like and what inspires me. So you can see the person behind the blog. “Inspiration” has been a theme for me the past couple of days. I got an e-mail...

Yesterday we generated the fields and initializers, so today let’s move on to the properties. Let’s quickly look at an example input: <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " ?> < Tasks > < Task Namespace...

Have you ever wanted to find out about any of the following: The ports that are used The processes that use the port Whether a process is a service The modules that a process loaded The user accounts that run a process Yes? Good....

Virtual PC 2004 is meanwhile one of my favorite programs. Currently I test a lot of stuff with XP SP2 and latterly also Linux to showcase interop scenarios. One bad thing is that currently there are no Virtual PC Additions for Linux. 800 x 600 is the...

TRICK: Localized form in a single view Applies to: Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP1 Need the same form in many languages? Here’s a trick that’s easier than multiple views. Summary By taking advantage of new SP1 features, there’s a simple way to create...

Well, I’m sitting on a plane from Washington DC to Orlando and it’s Wednesday evening, March 17 th . Had a great weekend! We (Michelle and I) arrived Friday afternoon to see our daughter and grandkids. Saturday was especially fun...

I frequently find that people have a different perspective of computing than I do. When I think about it, I am struck by the independence and separation that different systems (i.e. independent services) have from each other. In many ways, this reminds...

Engine? Sealed shut....