If you need to look at the process tree running on windows - Use tlist.exe TList.exe comes with the Debugging Tools for Windows download. The syntax for looking up the process tree is tlist.exe /t This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and...

The Real-Time Communications (RTC) Client API is a set of COM interfaces that enables you to build applications for making PC-PC, PC-phone, or phone-phone calls or creating instant messaging (IM) sessions over the Internet. Both voice and video calls...

Why should you use MTOM and not WS - Attachments ? The answer is limited composibility and better performance with large attachments. Composibility is the ability of a specification to be effectively used by specifications higher up in the web services...

If you want to test your WCF Service quickly, without using IIS, you can use the built in Web Server (aka Cassini). There are some limitations but it will work. The limitation is that Cassini assigns a new HTTP port number on every instance of the...

Use the Windows Resource Kit Tools. It has a bunch of tools including cdburn that makes it a piece of cake to burn ISO's to CD or DVD This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject...

Don't miss BillG's keynote at WinHEC. For me the key takeway was the fact that future applications will have to find ways to use multi core technology. That means applications will need to deal with a lots of threading and need to take advantage of new...

What is meta data ? A common definition is data about data. But what does it really mean ? Reusing an often quoted example of a library catalog, the meta data are the reference cards you find up in a old wooden drawer that lists out attributes of...

The component container has been around for a long, long time Component Containers are simple in concept. Containers provide services to components that execute within the container "execution space". Containers may provide network addressability...

Hello Word from the "Only Indigo" blog. I want this blog to reflect my current thinking on Indigo a.k.a Windows Communication Foundation. I am going to use Indigo in all the posts. At-least until I get beat up for it. :-) Indigo facinates me. In my...