A while back the Scripting Guys blogged about using recursion to list all the files in a directory and all its subdirectories. Something that you'll notice about this very standard solution to this problem is that it is "depth first". That is, it lists...

Before today's entry, a quick note. Work has just gotten insanely busy as we push towards getting VSTO ready for the Whidbey release. I likely won't have much time to blog over the next couple weeks, so the blog refresh rate is going to go down for a...

The WebGraphics blog recently had a Javascript quine contest that just ended. I'm totally bummed that I didn't hear about this until it was over. What's a "quine"? A quine is a program which, when run, produces the source code of the program as its output...

It's hard to believe it but it's true: I've been at this for an entire year. How the time has flown. In honour of my first blogoversary, today I bring you a story that has absolutely nothing to do with anything . I promised a while back that I’d...

In response to my earlier series on error handling in VBScript , Ian Griffiths blogged that Reuben Harris noticed an interesting fact about VBScript error numbers -- a fact which I will shamelessly steal and blog about myself. Here's the complete VBScript...

I got a number of good responses to last week's challenge, including some that pointed out potential flaws in my solution. See the comments for details. The question I posed is as follows: does asserting a permission before calling a method which could...

All that talk a while back about error handling in VBScript got me thinking about some error handling security issues that involve VB.NET specifically, though they apply to managed code written in any language. Consider this scenario: you provide a fully...