One of the items that I haven't found a whole lot of talk about online or in books is how to write a custom installer for Windows Mobile, so I'm going to briefly talk about how to set one up. Why would you want to do this? The reasons seem simple enough...

A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of my installs on my laptop started failing. I thought it was odd, but most of the things I install are pre-beta, so I figured that they hadn't yet started to support Windows Server 2008. Some things, out of beta,...

If you spend as much time as I do in Visual Studio TF, there are certain things you may find a tad bit frustrating : timeouts, connecting to the server, etc. Fortunately the Visual Studio guys/gals have come up with a set of power tools which you can...

I ran across this today from James Manning's blog and found it insanely useful. The default compare tool in Visual Studio TF is fine but I personally want some more features. If you have your own preferred compare tool, you can plug it in here: http...