Following up on my previous post , I tried working with an application framework on my XP SP2 system and when I ran the NUnit tests, all transactional Commands were Red with: " The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network...

I don't know if you've been spending much time working with any of the .NET 2.0 based systems we are building (Longhorn, Yukon, Whidbey ), but I've been working with some form of them for about a year and a half now. One of the difficulties I've had is...

Take a look at something fun to play with: Windows Media Player 10 Technical Preview is online on the public site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/ ). It's got some nice Longhornish styling built-in and some noticable improvements...

The latest issue of MSDN Magazine ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/09/default.aspx ) has an interesting article on applying the Command Pattern to the problem of distributed systems. It proposes a neat technique of essentially encapsulating...

I've found that it is always so difficult to document the work that we do, so I wanted to open up this channel to get out some of the things I've been working on so that I can at least point to it as a source of some documenation. Documenation of the...