I previously mentioned the Windows Performance Toolkit. At the WinHEC conference this year a presentation was given about the xPerf tool and plans for the future. You can find it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/E/6/5E66B27B-988B-4F50-AF3A...

This falls into the category of so obvious you kick yourself once you understand it. At least I did. Every now and again I do a little more work on an intranet website that I maintain. For some time I've been trying to integrate some blogging functionality...

I find that dialogues tend to fall into four categories 1) Clear, obvious and helpful 2) Clear, obvious and unhelpful 3) Obscure but still helpful 4) Obscure and totally unhelpful   I think this one falls into the first category.   Have I missed...

Channel 9 is hosting a series of weekly video podcasts about Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 release . Each episode is only about 10 to 15 minutes each, so nothing too time consuming. Doug

If you are seeing issues where your Windows Server 2003 based FTP server is unexpectedly resetting connection it may be a manifestation of this problem: Error code when you run a network program that uses a Winsock connection on a computer that is running...

The Microsoft .NET Framework product group have been busy making it easier to find out about and install the latest version of the .NET Framework... a simple URL and a clean UI at http://www.microsoft.com/net/   It's certainly easy to remember. And...

0:001> .foreach ( greeting {s -[1]u 0 L?0xffffffff "Merry"} ) {.printf "%mu" , greeting } Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Christmas brain teaser : based off this, what can infer about the most likely bit-ness of the process...

I don't often get involved with storage issues unless it is affecting one of my customer's websites in some way (usually performance, though could be a hang). During an issue I am currently working on, I came across the FileCab blog of the Windows Storage...

Looking for some great ASP.NET information and learning resources? Here's a few .. ASP.NET Whitepapers ASP.NET FAQ Securing ASP.NET Websites Learn ASP.NET If you've got any favourites, I'd love to hear about them! Cheers Doug

Back in October I blogged about what's new in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. I also talked about 3 problems that affect the CLR that can result when you install the service pack. Up until this point you'd have had to call Microsoft Customer Service and Support...