OK, normally I listen to strange stuffage (by most people's ears, anyway), but this is on the edge: via BoingBoing : Take a group of men from the northern Finnish town of Oulu... dress them in dark suits with black ties made from the inner tubes...

I’m back at work, after six weeks away – vacation and then paternity leave. Please examine the pictures of my daughter Lucy and post admiring comments. <grin> http://www.lucille-alsdorf-williams.com Also, special thanks to my friend...

I bought a Western Digital 120 Gig external drive to use as a backup drive for my home system, and I'd like to use something nicer than Windows backup to do the backup. Here's what I'm looking for: Ability to backup 3 systems. Scheduled...

We are considering making the VSLive/MDC drop available through MSDN. Will share more details when it is finalized. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Ever wonder what the difference between Delegate and MulticastDelegate ? You might think it has something to do with Multicasting right? Wrong. We abandoned the distinction between Delegate and MulticastDelegate towards the end of V1. At that time...

Tom Miller , dev guy over at DirectX is looking for reasons not to use DirectX. We've just gone through a nice Managed DirectX book due out soonish, and I can't think of any reasons (unless you want your app to be slow and boring). Help him out. TTFN...

"macros", in the context of the project system, refer to "$(name)" formatted variables that can be used in the project's properties. in VC 5 and 6 there was support for using these kind of macros in some properties. in VS.NET 2002 we extended the support...

So as I was sitting working at my desk this afternoon, three things happened: My SPOT watch bleeped to tell me I was due for a meeting in 15 minutes, My SmartPhone bleeped to tell me I was due for a meeting in 15 minutes, and My copy of Outlook...

In my last post I talked about how to detect .Net framework installed in your local machine. This is another .Net framework detection. But not for you, it is for web servers. Suppose you browse some web site. How does that web site know if you have installed...

This is a question that is interesting in more ways than one. One of the more common answers to this question i hear is naturally centered around performance, even though many times the person with the 'fear' of the performance hasn't actually tried to...

For those of you attending the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference this year (San Diego, Feb 8-12), Peer Networking will have a presence. Ravi Rao, another Program Manger from my team, will be attending the conference. If you are interested...

This is another frequently asked question. If you search google how to detect .Net Framework , this( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;315291 ) page ranks very high. Ignore all the details in the KB articles. It basically...