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Google uses .NET...?!?

Have a look at this link: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0986235.aspx Uhm... let's have a look at the source HTML of the page, and we'll not find the "_VIEWSTATE" hidden field (it should be there also if we disable the viewstate in the @Page Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:31 PM by Carlo Cardella | 13 Comments

Channel9 speaks Italian

A few weeks after the Italian MS bloggers have joint in a (for the moment) small community and started promote their content, today I've been told that Channel9 started hosting non-English content, and guess what...? The first video of this series (in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:09 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments

Spell checker missing in Windows Live Writer beta 2

A few days ago I installed the newly released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer , and immediately noted (with a bit of disappointment) that the spell checker was missing... After various tests (reinstalling on other machines I have, checking that all assembly Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:53 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments
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Orcas Beta 1 released

I'm really not a marketing guy and don't like that much the kind of shiny advertisements which makes everything looking like the best bargain ever, but I think this time it work making an exception to the rule So, here is a bit of advertising: Visual Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 3:06 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments

Vista and CHM

Now I understand why I have troubles viewing the electronic MSDN Magazine , have a look at this post from Chris Crowe... But I have to say that usually when I'm in that condition, expanding the content tree on the left and clicking on another topic solves Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:32 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments

CSSVista and IE Developer Toolbar to easily customize how your site/blog looks

While working to customize a bit my blog (and you can easily see I'm not a graphic designer! ) I struggled trying to understand and sort out the tangle of CSS styles I can override to change how these pages look (at this is still "work in progress"). Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:09 AM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments

Enable System Restore on Windows 2003

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where after installing some particularly appealing application, a new video driver which promises astonishing effects with your new PC game, and after a reboot the system simply refuses to start? Or maybe you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:40 PM by Carlo Cardella | 18 Comments
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Help, my application crashes! No, it hangs... Uhm... we get a strange error... What...?!? (the importance of a proper problem description)

Dealing on a daily basis with customers and the problems they encounter using Microsoft technologies and products, and having to help them troubleshoot and resolve those problems, specially at the beginning of a new support call (after I pick the case Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:25 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes made public for download

After reading this post a while ago regarding the availability Policy for some hotfixes (e.g., not all hotfixes are public for download, and you have to call Microsoft Support to obtain the one you need), I had an internal discussion with my team on this Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 7:20 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments
 
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