An article I'd never expect to find on a Microsoft site, but I guess it's just more proof we're a big company. Master the Skills of Influence and Persuasion The overview: How do top salesmen and leaders persuade others to act and motivate people to achieve?...
Sorry to all those who had asked questions via the bcl webpage and the answeres have been long in the coming: they got lost but fortunately I was able to retrieve them, it's simply now a matter of getting to all your great suggestions, and queries. Check...
Keith Hill inquired recently: There are times when displaying long paths (like as a menu item) that you would like to display a shortened path. Since the Win32 API already has a CompactPath API, it would be nice to expose this via the Path class. We completely...
Dmitriy Zaslavskiy asked recently: Can you add an overload that parses as much as it can and returns number of parsed characters. I'm interpreting this as something which would go on our basetypes Dmitry, and it is an interesting idea: a nice variation...
The new Bagel Virus takes the cake. ( Update : Also known as Beagle, Bagle, etc.) It comes as an EXE attachment (which would be blocked by all current versions of Outlook and Outlook Express) with the subject "Test" and the message body "Test, yep." It...
Jason has posted an entry discussing X servers in Services for UNIX : I've been at Microsoft for more than four years, now, and I've been intimately involved with the SFU product for that entire time. I know that the SFU team has considered the question...
Working with the strengths of the weakest! Just wanted to spread the word about a great non-profit organization that is doing some kick-ass work in the northeast region of India (namely Bongaigaon, Assam ). In case you are wondering about that name, here...
Check out the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser site . There is new version available for download - MBSA v1.2. The tool is now localized in couple other languages, support for additional products was added, IE custom zones support and few other things...
[I can't post much right now as our entire team is working their tails off for events like Envision, Developer Days , and MDC 2004.] Lot's of people don't think they can influence a company like Microsoft, but it's not true, we really do hear what you...
Joe White asked for this specific feature: For the most part, I like the way you designed collections in .NET -- especially interfaces like IEnumerable, ICollection, and IList. The problem is, you jump straight from a read-only, non-random-access collection...
Blane Nelson enquired about Directory.Copy: Why does the directory object have a static method to move a directory but not one to copy a directory. Was this an oversite? I wouldn't call it an oversight necessarily Blane: we explicitly didn't include this...
Jacek Blaszczynski asked this request about some of our Math functionality: I would greatly appreciate improvements in available set of functions and their behaviour getting them closer to C++ experience. One of misbehaviours is explicit cast of float...
Gheorghe Marius asked this question: Question: Are there any plans to add support for memory mapped files in Whidbey ? If no...why ? The answer is no Gheorghe. The why comes down to priorities, there simply wasn't enough interest in the feature at the...
Atif Aziz asked this very interesting (and difficult) question regarding the behavior of strings: It would be nice to see a single and consistent policy across the framework with respect to returning strings. Presently, one has to constantly look up the...
I had a customer ask me this today, so in case others are wondering: What's the “Web Client Network”? If you open Windows Explorer, click Network Neighborhood , then click Entire Network , you'll see an icon for Web Client Network . The customer...
I've been getting deeper into Activewords over the last couple of weeks, figuring out new ways to make it hum, and have just installed their "Knowledge Access" application . Very funky stuff: now if I select any word in any application and kit my Activewords...
How creative..... A Melbourne-based software outfit has come up with a tool for getting rid of the bloat on Windows systems and literally cutting one's system down to size. Litepc has developed software which it markets as XPLite and 2000lite, which users...
The PDC build of Whidbey and Longhorn do not provide a great mechanism for handling errors in ClickOnce manifests and other similar activation issues. Often if there is a problem activating a ClickOnce application, you'll only get a simple error dialog...
The folks over at The Middleware Company have seen the momentum with .NET and created a community to support enterprise developers at http://www.theserverside.net . This site will act as a complement to the enterprise Java focus of http://www.theserverside.com...
Dude, Check This Out! is an entirely new application for finding, storing, and retrieving all the great stuff that you find on the Web. The Dude is the easiest way to share that stuff with your friends and other contacts, and it’s also a great way...
A colleague of mine once said those words in a meeting and they really hit a chord with me. I think there's a lot of meat in those three words. We often reach for caches to improve performance. However, it is vitally important to make a deliberate, thoughtful,...
Julia Lerman wrote this short verse (let's call it 'Ode to BCL') in the mould of “The Elements”, by Tom Lehrer : System, data, SQL Client, Text and XML Reflection and Collections, Port and Diagnostic hell Windows Forms and Drawing, Web, U.I....
This looks like a great series. For those wondering about the “.NET World”, this should be a great introduction. …and it’s a webcast – dial in, sit back, and enjoy… A series of 15 webcasts & lab exercises for...
A common question for people starting to program on Windows is, “What makes a valid Windows file name?” You want to use this information to make simplifying assumptions in your code: that names can be no longer than MAX_PATH, that two names...
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