I am not big on making New Year resolutions but I do keep telling myself I should become more of a OneNote power user. I found a nice page on OneNote keyboard shortcuts the other day which should help. OneNote keyboard shortcuts HTH Doug

Vance Morrison, CLR performance architect here at Microsoft, has released a new tool for conducting performance investigations on .NET applications. It is called PerfView and you can read more about it on his post here . You can download it here . It...

I recommend this absolutely fascinating blog post by Miguel de Icaza summarising the progress of Mono in 2011. What a rollercoaster. From the acquisition of Novell, through the spin-off of Mono activities as Xamarin, the tie-in with Attachmate on to a...

If you make use of the source code debugging features WinDBG you may find it quite annoying the way that each time you hit a point in the debug that relates to source in a file you do not already have open WinDBG opens yet another source window. This...

Yes, the BBC Micro is 30! . Great article about the history of it here . The “model B” was the first computer I ever owned. The first computer I used was a Commodore Pet (both the 8Kb and the incredibly powerful 32Kb edition) so I was hooked on 6502 machine...

I recently attended an offsite meeting in Munich for our Microsoft EMEA IIS/ASP.NET and web developer support team. It’s the first time we’ve had the chance to get together in one place for several years (even though we work together everyday!) and it...

I recently had reason to put together a list of general resources available from Microsoft aimed at software developers. I know there are many more out there but this was intended as a list of high level resources to get people started. If you have other...

A new preview version of the WebPI command line tool (WebPIcmd.exe) has been released: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1072/web-platform-installer-v4-command-line-webpicmdexe-preview-release/ An interesting new feature if offline mode, allowing the use...

I recently finished working on a support case where the customer was hitting the same issue as this one: 2484841 FIX: A .NET Framework 4.0-based WPF application may stop responding if you right-click a control to open a pop-up control but for Microsoft...

My colleague Emmanuel has published a great new blogs post on troubleshooting 403.7 “Client Certificate Required errors”. Read all about it here. HTH Doug

The .NET Framework team are working on .NET 4.5 and are inviting people to start testing their existing applications for compatibility against it (particularly as it is an in place update to 4.0): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2011/09/26/compatibility...

Here are my tips for pain free .NET debugging with WinDBG 1) Always use a 32-bit debugger for a 32-bit process and a 64-bit debugger for a 64-bit process, both to generate the dump and to analyse it. Use usermode dumps only (managed debugger extensions...

I went on a excellent C++ course earlier this year. I can’t claim to have ever been a professional C++ programmer – I dabble and I get by – so it is useful to attend such training from time to time to try and fill some more gaps in my knowledge. I learned...

Just like it says in the title. Whitepaper here . HTH Doug

Following on from my “Version history of the CLR 2.0” post I’ve decided to start one for 4.0. If you find a version of clr.dll on a system that is not listed here please let me know (via comments or contact link on the blog). Thanks! Doug Version 4.0...

  A very interesting article on manager memory troubleshooting and also the introduction of a new tool called LeakShell from Christophe Nasarre . Then he has a later post in which he talks about using LeakShell in conjunction with dump files. Great...

  You may receive this error in the browser using Internet Explorer 10: “Script Error encountered", "'__doPostBack' is undefined” Fixes are now available for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.51 (Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2), Microsoft...

This is a very interesting article on the way malware rates vary by country and why. Doug

If you are ever getting strange crash or stability issues with IIS in Windows Server 2003 (IIS6) it is always worth remembering about this script to check the DLLs are at the expected version or higher.  We still continue to solve support cases with...

  If you are based in the UK, are a Microsoft Partner developing software products and service and want to look deeper into what the Windows Azure Platform has to offer you should be aware of some free one day workshops being run by one of my colleagues...

I recently had a support case where the customer was trying to send a fax from an ASP.NET application but was getting this error when they did: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070102): Operation failed They got this error after a short...

The IIS team have provided a servicing release for Web Farm Framework 2. See also: WFF home page WFF documentation HTH Doug PS If you experience a crash of the MMC, with system event ID 13 from IIS-IISManager with ‘System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException:...

I’ve just finished helping on a case where a fairly simple usage scenario for the IIS ADSI provider ran into a memory leak.  A lot of the time this would not matter as the ADSI programming interface to IIS is often used from short lived scripting...

Here is a phenomenal video of the northern lights built from thousands of still images so as to create the highest quality visual effect. And here are some incredible photos and video showing the a huge dust storm in Arizona. Doug

This Special Intelligence Report about the taking down of the Rustock Botnet makes for very interesting reading. Maybe they could make a film of it? Doug