IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

The first feature I want to discuss is the new event log, a benefit to IT Pros and developers alike. The event log in Longhorn is a major update of the NT event log service. It maintains 100% backwards compatibility with the existing APIs and functionality...

Just as the event log gets a makeover, so does the registry. In this post, I will take a look at some of the work done around how to manage settings and configuration in the OS. The goal is to provide a platform for handling settings in such a way that...

The Fundamentals Pillar of Longhorn has received far less attention than the other pillars (Avalon, Indigo and WinFS). This is a shame, because the Fundamentals deserve equal, if not more, attention as the other pillars. In fact, the Fundamentals are...

I was writing an Avalon application today and hit a weird gotcha. It threw me for a loop until a colleague explained what was happening. Basically, I wanted to create a very simple page with a ListBox and two TextPanels, one above the ListBox and one...

Today, instrumentation and probing of applications is difficult. Once an application is running, the ability to probe the runtime state of the appliction is hard. When administrators and developers are trying to troubleshoot why a given application is...