After owning a digtial camera for a year and a half, I now have about 6000 photo files , which have swamped my old home computer's 16GB harddisk. So on the day after Thanksgiving, popular for shopping, I considered going to Fry's to buy an external harddisk...

I was recently working on a thermometer control and decided to write a temperature class to go along with it. What I found interesting is that there are temperature systems that I had never even heard of let alone used (namely Reaumer and Rankine). I...

The entertainment industry is a funny business. It is completely dependant on the random whims of consumers. That is not to say that the success of a product is unpredictable, simply that there are a great many factors involved in design, development...

Hello, there. I'm Eric, a brand new addition to the Microsoft.com Operations Tools Team. As a part of beaming into the team, I thought I would try the team weblog. For the subject of my first post, I will keep it relatively light: playing chess. I have...

I have recently encountered a situation where my code was receiving objects sent, via a scoping event, from code on another thread. These "scope" objects require my code to change state to reflect the object received. This resulted in my code receiving...

It's probably no big surprise to anyone that I happen to love Microsoft and our products. I'm also the first to say that neither we or our products are perfect. But too often, we get beat up over issues with our software and our competition or the media...

Several months back, my significant other decided to leave the fold of Microsoft to branch out on her own as an ISV specializing in tools for developers. This week she launched her first product, Agent Aware for Windows and while I may be a little biased...