Stephen Toub

For anyone living or vacationing near Lake Michigan this summer and looking to see a great show, Tamara is there performing in the first regional production of Urinetown, playing for the next several weeks at Mason Street Warehouse in Saugatuck. Some...

On Friday I post some observations on the performance of recursive iterators in C#. Since then I've received a few emails from folks stating that, while converting the recursive iterator to an iterative iterator with an explicit stack made sense for that...

MSDN Magazine now in CHM...

We shipped our April 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine this week, and I've received a few reader's emails about something I wrote in the “.NET Matters” column. I was answering a question concerning exception filters and C#. While there are two...

Like many developers at Microsoft, I spend a good chunk of my free time writing tools, or fun little programs that use some new SDK, or even applications requested by friends or family to help them do some task better and/or faster. Many of these materialize...

I started this blog a year ago with very good intentions. But somehow I got sidetracked and I haven't been back since. It's too late for a New Year's resolution, so I'm making a March resolution... starting next week, I'm going to make it a point to post...

New PAG for .NET Passport integration into existing environments...

A fantastic show!!!...

Last week and weekend I discussed performance of iterators in C# 2.0, specifically recursive iterators. Recursive iterator performance Recursive iterator performance, part 2 To briefly recap, the ability to write recursive iterators is, quite frankly...

The April 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine (the 20th anniversary edition) is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04 . The April installment of my favorite column, .NET Matters , is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com...

I try to keep this blog about Microsoft, MSDN Magazine, and .NET (when I remember to post to it at all) , however every once in a while I have something personal to share. John Keefe , my college roommate and best friend, decided to pursue acting professionally...

I know this will be extremely short lived, but I experience this phenomenon so rarely that I felt compelled to share its beauty with the world:

My latest .NET Matters in MSDN Magazine is now online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/NETMatters/default.aspx

Some of the hardest bugs to discover are those involved in features that contain intentionally random behavior. Sudoku was originally written using System.Random as its source of randomness. As is described in the article about its development, this...

The February 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/02 . And for those of you on the go, a downloadable CHM file of the entire issue is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/htmlhelp...

Thanks to everyone who attended my talks yesterday at DevConnections. For those of you who were at the talk on using managed code to access some of the native-only APIs in Vista, you can get the code samples I used for the demos here . The slides from...

I've had several requests for the code for the PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor tool I put up a few weeks back to accompany my MSDN Magazine article on preview handlers . I've updated the download to include the source for the project. Enjoy!

I wrote a short article for MSDN which demonstrates how easy it is to write fun Audio DSP plug-ins for Windows Media Player. Karaoke, Windows Media Player Style Have fun.

I had an exciting morning today... I ordered a DVD. Why is that noteworthy? Because when I watch the DVD I'm going to be able to see myself. Mona Lisa Smile is being released to DVD on March 9th, and I had the fortunate experience of being a part of it...

Programmatic Access to the ASP.NET Trace DataSet...

Djikstra's short paper on the GOTO...

A week in blogspace and all is different...

I was out of town last week, and as a result this announcement is a bit delayed, but better late than never, right? The March 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/03 . And for those of...

The August 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/08 . And for those of you on the go, a downloadable CHM file of the entire issue is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/htmlhelp...

John Robbins emailed me tonight to let me know that he found a bug with my PreviewHandlerAssociatedEditor tool with Vista running on x64. The tool first looks in the registry to see what handlers are available, and then it looks at all classes/extensions...