Ray Ozzie (of Groove) has a blog posting about the new Homeland Security Information Network of which Groove will play an integral part. The Groove press release is here . I think this is a really exciting announcement as it demonstrates a very compelling...

Sorry for the long delay without any updates. I was on vacation in Australia for several weeks and was thus not posting. I will not bore you with the details of my trip, but will instead share my main conclusion; Flightless birds rock. Look for several...

In C++, I can define a macro such as: #define PRODUCT(x, y, z) x * y * z and then use it in code: int a = PRODUCT(3, 2, 1); C# doesn't allow you to do this. Why? There are a few reasons why. The first is one of readability. One of our...

Well, while we are moved to this weblog, the link of my document is just gone from gotdotnet. and I got many mails from people about whether the latest document is. so I moved it on my weblog. it is live!!! whenever there is any new issues from customer...

The Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 Deb ugger doesn’t work. What can I do? By Min Kwan Park( mkpark@microsoft.com / Visual Studio Diagnosis QA team) Introduction During the last several months, I have dealt with...

Here are some articles about password sniffing and real-world systems. Documented accounts of successful password sniff attacks do actually exist. (I’m not trying to pick on the OSS folks when it comes to poor password handling, but the two...

Watch out for some improvements in the Workspaces bug tracker next week (Tuesday 3/16/04). Find that bug It’s true, the querying power in today’s bug tracker leaves somewhat to be desired. As the bug count rises, it can...

A colleague of mine told me a great allegory today. The shortened version is that a bunch of sailors fell off a boat into the cold, icy waters of the Pacific. The captain, understanding that his men would surely freeze to death, immediately ordered the...

I was already linking to Tim's blog, but now Saurabh is blogging as well. For starters he'll show you how to get “ Relief from CE Documentation ”. It's a race to see who will post next. I'm sure Saurabh would also love to hear any feedback...

I got a couple of questions on our use of XML for the documentation so I’ll try to respond as best I can. More to follow in another post. Yes—there are XML developer code comments within the .NET code. No—those developer comments...

The second half of Scott Mitchell 's Building Templated ASP.NET Server Controls has gone live, so those who tuned into this cliff hanger can now read it. In “ Building DataBound Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls “, Scott adds the capability...

Yesterday I posted about detecting which CSP provided algorithms were available on your copy of Windows, and upgrading IE to get a newer CSP that supported more algorithms. Sebastien Pouliot provied some nice followup information on using pure managed...