Kirk Evans Blog

Ya gotta check out Keith "Dot Net Daddy" Brown in The Code Room . Don't forget to pick up the Developer Security Resource Kit on your way out.

Did you write your own WS-Addressing implementation? Do you want to know if your stack will interop easily with Microsoft's? Doug Purdy points out a fantastic resource... mssoapinterop.org . Use this to find out where potential interop problems are...

I love learning new featuresof Visual Studio. Today, I saw an email from Chris Lovett where he showed a feature of snippets that I had no idea existed. Intellisense in an XML document will actually create an XML document inferred from an associated schema...

In a recent talk on What's New in C# 2.0, I explained the concepts of covariance and contravariance. Several people came up to me afterwards and said they absolutely got it, but wanted to find out where to find more information. Stephen Toub has a...

Since joining Microsoft, I have been hardware challenged, putting it lightly. I joined Microsoft 2 years ago, and was greeted with an already outdated laptop and a first-edition TabletPC. I quickly found that the TabletPC (a Toshiba Protege) was woefully...

Holy shmokes! The session list for the Orlando Code Camp looks awesome! Pick a buzzword or acronym, it's in there. ASP.NET 2.0 controls, ASP.NET 2.0 providers, AJAX, Avalon, WCF, WF, SQLCLR, SSIS, Virtual Earth, EntLib 2.0, MSF, Reporting Services, LINQ...

Yeah, I am back on the ES kick again. Some EnterpriseServices links to ponder. Using Distributed Transactions in .NET 1.x Without Deriving From ServicedComponent Hosting WCF in COM+ With Different Transports Services Without Components Writing...

Sign up now, seating is limited. Jeffrey Richter will speak to the group on Building, Deploying, and Versioning .NET Components and Applications .Jeffrey will explain how .NET compilers produce metadata and how this metadata is used by the CLR to resolve...

We are fortunate to have Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect speak to the Communications Sector Architect Council on Some Controversial .NET Topics . In this session, Jeffrey will address some of the more controversial issues surrounding the .NET Framework...

I get on a plane with my computer and an external USB hard drive. I had a layover for a couple hours, so I decided to work on an upcoming presentation. The computer is unbearably slow. Then I realize that the computer nearly locks up when I click on the...

Email is by far my most frequent mode of communication, followed by instant messaging. I could do without a phone completely if my wife weren't sure to call me a hermit. As such, I get an obnoxious amount of email per day. I subscribe to a number of...

I recently tried to do a simple demo of hosting a control in IE to show how the CLR will behave when there are multiple framework versions on the machine. I just couldn't get it to work. It was a silly thing on my part (yeah, silly now... not so much...

The Orlando .NET Code Camp registration is open . Sign up quickly, this one is sure to sell out fast. The esteemed Tim Walton will be presenting this year... can't wait to see what he has in store.

You're right, Christian... HelloWorld should look a lot different . Assuming it should be HelloWorld at all (Indigo templates so far name it MyOperation1), here is a little change to your proposed HelloWorld: IWebService.cs: using System.Xml; using...

If you are a C# developer and have ever mistakenly created a VB.NET project, you might have noticed the massive number of code snippets that VB folks enjoy. My good buddy Tim Haines gives us the word that the same Code Snippets available for VB...

Kenny has a blog post about our discovery of the Double-Decorator pattern for services . We were fortunate enough to have Kenny Wolf from the Indigo team in Atlanta visiting one of our large customers who is doing some amazing work with Indigo. Since...