Stephen Toub

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...

The August 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/08/default.aspx with the August installment of .NET Matters available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/08/NETMatters/default...

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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...

Some good college friends of mine have started a cool new company, With Honors , that specializes in online essay editing. Check it out !

I'm enamored with the movie capabilities of my Canon Digital Elph. While I love taking pictures, sometimes I don't just want stills from an event, but would prefer to capture the whole thing in the form of a movie. As a result, I take short movies with...

The January 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. This issue is the first issue of the magazine's 20th anniversary year... happy birthday! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01 The January installment of my favorite column...

Starting with the November 2006 issue, MSDN Magazine is now available online in seven languages! This includes English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. Want to read the November issue in Russian ? How about...

The ASP.NET tracing system has a configurable requestLimit that stops the tracing system from processing requests after a specified number of requests. I was asked today how to programmatically reset the trace, just as you can through a browser by clicking...

The November 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/11/default.aspx with the November installment of my favorite column, .NET Matters, available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues...

Charlie Owen from the Media Center team is raffling off a bunch of prizes (Visual Studio 2005, Windows XP, Office 2003) in exchange for donations to American Red Cross Hurricane Relief: http://blog.retrosight.com/PermaLink,guid,615c3873-ec2c-4869-9d8a...

Urinetown, the Tony-Award winning musical comedy created by Chicago's Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, will begin its first resident commercial Chicago run March 15 toward an opening of March 26 at The Mercury Theater. For anyone living in or near Chicago...

My team, which creates MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine, is looking for a Developmental Editor and a Media Production Specialist . If you're interested in applying for either position, both of which are located in New York, see http://www.microsoft...

The June 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/default.aspx with the June installment of the .NET Matters column available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/06/NETMatters...

All of the feature articles from the premiere issue of TechNet Magazine are now online! The rest of the content will be online next week. In the meantime, the magazine should be arriving in many of your mailboxes very soon (if it hasn't already), and...

Today at TechNet we announced a new magazine that will be available this fall, TechNet Magazine: The Microsoft Journal for IT Professionals . TechNet Magazine, a joint publication of Microsoft Corporation and CMP Media LLC, will provide in-depth, hands...

The September 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/09/default.aspx

I've received several emails from folks who have been successfully using my Outlook Calendar Provider and Outlook Contact Provider with Outlook 2003. Unfortunately, they upgrade to Outlook 2007, and their solutions break. This appears to be due to Outlook...

The October 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/default.aspx with the October installment of .NET Matters available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/NETMatters/default...

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

MSDN Magazine is always on the look out for talented developers and writers looking to get their quality ideas and content published in the magazine. If you've got a great idea for an article relating to development with Microsoft technologies, by all...

The April 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online. You can read it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/default.aspx You can also download a .chm file of the issue here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/htmlhelp.aspx Enjoy...

A few readers have commented to me that they've been having trouble recently viewing the CHM files available from the MSDN Magazine Web site . This is due to a recent security update . But not to fear, Rob has already written a blog entry demonstrating...

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...

The July 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/default.aspx with the July installment of .NET Matters available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/NETMatters/default...