I attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington. While IU is known for many outstanding schools (e.g. School of Music, Business, …) most people know it as the school Bob Knight coached at and even more so for his questionable behavior....

As s.o. from the product team confirmed, the ClickOnce problem that I described in my last entry is specific to the PDC build of Whidbey and will go away in the Beta. So as a workaround, I'll use my Smartphone as a GPRS modem and connect through that...

Last week I went to the inaugural meeting of a study group who are going to study for the ASP.NET exams in VB and C#. They plan to meet each Monday in Rockville, MD. This coming Monday, Jan 19th, they are going to study the first chapter of the Kalani...

an interesting perspective from AlwaysOn about the business model of large enterprise software vendors: “Another problem is that software vendors typically develop functional components that must be 'bolted together' at the customer location...

I was very impressed recently with the customer service I received from ResultsWare, the vendor of Taskline, and I want to share the story. A week or so ago, I was reading some blog, I can't remember which, but someone mentioned an application called...

What fonts do you use? The first thing I do when I set up windows is change the default font to Verdana . I even have a reg key which does this for Win Office, saving me the hassle of clicking through numerous dialogs. I really dislike Arial and Times...

Everybody has printer at home. Well, mostly everybody. Chances are if you have computer at home, you most probably have a printer as well. It is just sitting there on the shelf or on your desk and silently (or not so - depending on the model) waits for...

If you’re interested in Grid computing and using .NET you can look at the OGSI.NET code from UVa… This is the first version of OGSI.NET to feature *** full *** OGSI v1.0 spec compliance and implementations of all the OGSI v1.0 specification...

I just posted my next Avalon Imaging sample. This one is an entire one devoted to ImageEffectGlow. More samples coming next week!

Available for download from microsoft.com: the 45-Day Trial version of Virtual PC 2004 . This is the product that I use to develop demonstrations and to test installations, etc. of new products. For a development team, this will allow developers to...

This week I've been in Wilmington, DE and Allentown, PA , (actually Bethlehem) doing seminars on ASP.NET Architecture and ASP.NET security. It's been an interesting experience as I have a foot infection at the moment and I'm doing seminars in a wheel...

Hi, I'm Geoff Snowman, the Developer Community Champion for Maryland, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The organization at Microsoft that I work for is called the “Seminar Sales Team“ and it's based in Dallas, Texas...