Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)

Ok, this is just insane and amazing at the same time! Way to go 64-bit SQL Server on Windows 2003 Server!! Oracle and IBM have a tough fight ahead of them if they wish to stay competetive in the databases market...

James writes in his blog about IE and some feature requests... Well a while ago I found this little app, MyIE2 , which is basically a simple little application that uses the IE ActiveX control. It includes tabbing, and other features. It's a nice little...

Within this Photo Album WS, I've been working with GDI+ quite a bit lately... and wow, it really does kick some serious ars! I sorta knew this for some time, but seriously, it rocks. I recall "back in the day" having to do so much to do similar types...

This week has been crazy. I've been coding like mad to get some features added to the Phot Album WS. It's almost done!! Yay! Beside that I installed Windows 2000 Server (yes I know, I know, I should have installed Windows 2003 SErver, but I don't have...

I was reading Steve's blog (well, I think his name is Steve (I apologize if I screwed up)) just now about his first week at working at Microsoft. This brought back memories of when I interned at Microsoft in the Windows Group last summer... I remember...

This AutoScroll feature on controls that are ScrollableControls is pretty neat, but there is a slight problem. Here's the scenario... Project Setup : Add a Panel control to a Windows Form. Set it to AutoScroll . Within this Panel add...

On Thursday, c|net had an article on Microsoft's planned release of its Greenwich corporate IM server. Being that I'm not on the beta for this product, I'm hoping that there are some feature for developers that are added to Greenwich. Granted the basic...

I feel really bad doing this... but my Outlook XP decided to corrupt my PST file the other night so I lost most of mail except for a month old backup. Anyway, a while ago I asked if anyone wanted to beta test or add any features to the Photo Album WS...

After looking through the links to my previous post, I noticed that G. Andrew Duthie referred to it in his latest blog . He makes an excellent point. Not patching is in my estimate Sin #1 when adminning any box. But secondly, there are tools like the...

Ok, this is somewhat old news, but somehow this slipped off my radar back in February. Even when I showed it to a few IT admins today that follow such news very closely, they mentioned to me that they don't remember seeing anything about this in the...

Ok, this is really wierd. In my Photo Album Admin application I call the Photo Album WS. For one of the many web-methods in the WS, I get the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in...

Ok, this is disturbing. It's April 6th already!!! This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen in April, especially in the NYC Metro Area. Sigh. URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 1003 PM EDT SUN APR 6 2003 ...MAJOR...

Ok, this weekend I feel like I've gotten no work done. I've been working on class projects. One of them was implementing two schedulers for our play NACHOS OS and the other are two programs in Prolog. My brain is totally fried. Hopefully I'll get around...

Last night I wrote a little test app to add copyright/watermarking to a photo. I've wanted to add this to the Photo Album for some time so that those web users who want to steal photos from my website would have this ugly copyright text on the photo....

Ok, I'm thinking to myself... "How cool would it be to have one of the 4 line, blue and white LCDs ( CFA634-TMC-KU) for my server?" Granted, they aren't that terribly useful, but they definitely seem somewhat cool. There is some limited usefullness to...

For the longest time I've been meaning to finally purchase Sourcegear's Vault , so finally today I placed my order for it and got my registration code. I was real lucky too since my trial of it was just about to expire on Sunday. Vault is a phenomenal...

Woohoo!! C# gets ISO standardization! This is certainly a huge win for the entire .NET and C# community, and Microsoft as a whole. The Java folks can claim all they want that they have a standard themselves, but I'm sorry, the Java Community Process...

There has been some interest by some out there in my Photo Album WS. As promised, I would delve into this into a bit more detail today. Q: Will it be available? A: Yes, it will be available "soon". If you're interested in helping me test it, please...

I've been working on this Photo Album Web Service for some time now. I started it about a year ago, and then I stopped working on it last May when I went to intern at Microsoft on the Windows team. So, I decided that I'd finally pick it up again and start...

First, I'd like to thank Scott for generously providing this blog space. I've wanted to start blogging for some time, but I've always wanted to blog in style with .NET. Scott has done a wonderful job with this site. Thanks Scott! Great, so now that...