The free MSDN events for the Gulf Coast will be at the following cities: April 6, Houston , TX April 8, Corpus Christi, TX April 20, Laredo, TX April 22, San Antonio, TX

For the past two years, my daughter Sharron’s been taking dressage lesson’s at a local dressage training facility, and she’s gotten pretty darned good at it. Back in October, Sharron really wanted to start competing in dressage, and...

Q: Why do I need a null test before I invoke a delegate? A: If you have an event in a class, you need to add a null test before you call the delegate. Typically, you would write: if (Click != null ) Click(arg1, arg2); There is actually a possible...

Here's an excuse to write about two things I love. Danny Elfman is doing music for the upcoming X-box game Fable . Danny Elfman was the lead singer for the best band of all time, Oingo Boingo .

Saw this announced on aus-dotnet mailing list , and thought I would share: http://www.esbconsult.com/esbpcs.net/esbdecimals.html Free Microsoft .NET v1.1 Assembly supplying Decimal Routines and demos for Visual Studio 2003 C#, Visual Studio 2003...

It's probably not obvious that you can do this, but I thought I would let you all in on a little secret. Some of you probably aren't lucky* enough to have access to a service like Intellimirror Folder Redirection (where your My Documents folder can...

Q: Why doesn't C# warn on unused methods? A: This is something that the C# compiler could do, subject to a few caveats: Virtual functions would have to be excluded Interface implementations wouldn have to be excluded You would get false...

Check out this page for detailed steps on how to get remote debugging working after you've upgraded to XP SP2.

My personal e-mail account has just gotten hammered with spam. Not sure what to do anymore. I get about 30 messages a day that don't get filtered away, and I simply can't be bothered to figure out what is going on. I've been toying with the idea of using...

See iRiver for the details.

The other day I had to answer various questions about SyncLock. What is really locked when you do SyncLock? Why after doing SyncLock X, you can modify X and even assign to it a different value. What are the performance implications of SyncLock...

If you've got a Media Center PC running the first version of Media Center and didn't get an upgrade to Media Center 2004 then don't worry. When you install Service Pack 2 for Windows XP you'll be upgraded to Media Center 2004. See here for more info...