Half Blood Programmer, MSFT Chapter

Well, I love the VS2010 editor. It is really cool, so make sure that you pay a visit here . But looking back on the things I saw in the past, I couldn't help myself looking at Delphi IDE again. The floating editor, the color bar on the left side, and...

You may already know that IIS log is a valuable source to navigate to troubleshoot problems, and I guess you also know Network Monitor log is another priceless evidence. However, do you realize combining them is both an interesting and tough challenge...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. In some cases when you try to create IISADMPWD virtual directory and test, you may come across some problems like "Error: object not found". So here I try to provide you more...

When you navigate to this KB article you will see it only applies to Windows XP SP2. But always it provides you a hint once you meet this problem with IIS and SP3. Well, there are already people complaining that even if replacing xpsp2 with xpsp3 step...

Well, this KB article contains a hotfix for Windows Server 2003 SP1. Although this hotfix is part of SP2, you may notice that registry keys mentioned in this KB does not appear on your system after applying SP2. Therefore, you will have to follow the...

HTTP 401 is a common error code you may see in an error page. While 401 has a few sub cases, 401.1 is so common that I guess most web developers experience it in the past. Well, this post will not discuss everything about 401.1 but want to provide a hint...

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have been released for a long time. However, there are still some people asking whether their Vista or Server 2008 installation contains certain features. Well, Microsoft have the matrix published here for your reference...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Well, it is always hard to convince people that 32 bit processes are running on 64 bit Windows as first class citizens just like those 64 bit ones. So if you still have...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Well, I guess most ASP.NET people know “Platform target” setting in a project. There are four options, Any CPU, x86, x64, and Itanium (aka IA64). When you are debugging a web...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. It is quite interesting that this KB article only talks about how to enable IIS 6 metabase audit, and there is no hint about how to disable it. Well, in fact it is rather easy...

Just finishing watch Anders Hejlsberg’s PDC 2008 session named The Future of C# , I feel so happy to be a C# developer. Those cool features are just cool. So I am going to download Visual Studio 2010 CTP tomorrow to test some of my understandings. Hope...

This year’s PDC is coming next week. Because there will be a lot of companies there ( Microsoft for sure, DevExpress , Embarcadero , and so on) with many important announcements, I just cannot wait like these guys . I am quite interested in Visual Studio...

I have been a blogger for a long time. But in order to separate posts by content after joining Microsoft, I sign up this MSDN blog to publish Microsoft only posts, while my old personal blog continues to serve other posts. Right now I am really excited...