Jason Bower's WebLog

I may not be posting as many .NET related issues anymore. I am changing jobs at Microsoft and moving to the mobile devices group to design input features for the Pocket PC and Smartphone next week. This is a big change for me and gives me a chance to...

I ran into an interesting bug at work this week when discovered the .NET Framework SDK QuickStarts failed to setup up properly on German versions of Windows 2003 Server. The application that we use to setup up the sample databases with SQL grants the...

I was just pointed to a great website to help you write PInvoke calls. Http://www.pinvoke.net . It's a Wiki that has a bunch of PInvoke calls for common Win32 API's. I was only pointed to this site after my developer and I spent a number of days trying...

Poorly documented code department I find it amazing sometimes how hard it is to figure out how to code something so seemingly simple. I am working with my developer to create a new setup wizard for the ASP.NET Quickstart samples that will automatically...

This post is to provide some tips for people who may or may not have been using the .NET Framework SDK. Most of these tips apply to the .NET Framework SDK v2.0 Beta , but some will also work with previous versions. 1. Most people do not know this,...

The .NET Framework SDK v2.0 Beta is now available for download. Get it while it is hot. We have x86, IA64, and x64 versions for you. If you are running on 64bit platforms make sure you have the latest 64bit version of Windows installed. We've added...

If you had to choose between the following two options which would you choose and why? Option A A single 60 MB .NET Framework Redist Installation package that installs on all 32 and 64 bit platforms. Option B A 20 MB .NET Framework Redist that installs...