A bit of a random link this, but I stumbled upon this list of .NET sample applications hosted on the MSDN Academic Alliance site: http://docs.msdnaa.net/ark_new3.0/cd3/content/Type_Sample%20Applications.htm Doug

Ever seen this error in a WinDBG/CDB debug session? Failed to load data access DLL, 0x80004005 Verify that 1) you have a recent build of the debugger (6.2.14 or newer)             2) the file mscordacwks...

Internet Explorer 8.0 is currently available as “RC1” or “Release Candidate 1” (which means it is pretty near final version, much more so than, say, a beta version). This version of IE is a major new version and has lots to offer developers but also has...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) among other things exposes to WMI clients performance counters that are present on a system . This is useful because it makes performance counter data accessible to script based clients. It also offers a better...

When I first started computing it was on a machine with 14Kb ROM and 8Kb of RAM plus a tape deck for storage . So in these days of Gb and Gb of bloated software it is reassuring to see a competition with the spirit of the MIX09 10K challenge . My personal...

This is a useful point I saw discussed recently on some internal email. So I thought I would blog it before I lose it. If you use ADPlus at all and make use of the (very useful) configuration file option you may have run into the situation where it complains...

This is from a case I helped a customer with last Autumn. It was one of those kick yourself moments when I realised what the problem was and we even have a KB article about it. But it is relatively uncommon and you wouldn't necessarily come across the...

One of the cases I've been working on recently is for an issue introduced by Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. The fix has now been finalised and released on the MSDN Code Gallery .   When you get this error the symptoms are like this...

I wrote previously about fixes that are available for three issues that can occur when you install SP1 for .NET Framework 3.5. In addition to those three CLR issues, there were some other problems caused by the service pack which is why we also released...