I spent Saturday teaching my two C# classes at Byte Back . Byte Back is a great organization in North East Washington DC that provides computer skills training at little or no cost. I was involved with Byte Back in the very early days (1997); I taught...

Robert says" I stopped using Favorites about five years ago. Hint, what happened about five years ago? Google. My favorites file back then was about 5000 items. It just got so big, and so out of date, that I stopped using it. Today my "favorites" list...

Microsoft Technical Summit 2004 will be held on March 2nd and March 3rd in Kassel, Germany . The conference will be covering tracks about Whidbey, Yukon, Longhorn and Architecture. As the event is in Germany most content will be presented in German language....

I'm not a huge fan of registry hacks, but I just might try this one that Tony Schreiner exposes. Outlook 2003 limits you to only 16 color choices when you specify a font for replying; Tony figured out how to specify any RGB color. Chartreuse anyone?...

Okay, last one today, I promise :) This Microsoft Knowledgebase article gives the steps that Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 administrators need to follow to get OneNote documents included in search results. (Have you tried OneNote 2003 yet? It's pretty...

Here's another Microsoft Knowledgebase article , this one tells you how to get rid of that pesky !New tag when you add a new item to Sharepoint site. This "How To" applies to Sharepoint Team Services, Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows Sharepoint...

There's a new Microsoft Knowledgebase article that talks about how to use the unsupported gthrlog.vbs tool. From the article: Every time that SharePoint Portal Server creates an index or updates an index, SharePoint Portal Server creates a gatherer log...

I ran across a Microsoft Knowledge Base article the other day that has a good comparison of the features in Windows Sharepoint Services and Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. This information exists in other places, but this is a nice concise summary. It...

Spotlight on Publisher 2003 "In these four new articles, Andrew May demonstrates how to use the Publisher object model to extend the capabilities of Publisher 2003. Learn to create navigation bars and catalog publications, customize wizards, and sort...

Before joining the Windows Privacy team I worked on MSN 8 . One of the technologies I worked with was code named "Majel", after Majel Barrett who was (is?) the voice of the computer on Star Trek. As the name implies, this feature allowed the user to type...

Ok, so I made these two New Year's resolutions: that I'd reduce the size of my butt and I'd increase the strength of my brain by learning more about asp.net and Longhorn. Mostly because I hate also sitting around (on my butt) feeling stupid in the presence...

Thank you EVERYONE for your comments and assistance. Not that it matters, but I did know that DOS v COMMAND were different apps. I guess I should have said "DOS-like commands." :-) As far as my comment about wanting more descriptive help it would have...

Hello, everybody. I'm Yun Jin, a dev works in CLR's Quick Response Team under Michael Stanton . As Michael mentioned in his blog, our job mostly involves debugging, analyzing and fixing all kinds of weird stress failures in CLR and partner teams. CLR...

Surprisingly, I don't recall seeing many blog entries about debuggers so I guess I'll start. I use the following debuggers on a semi-regular basis, each of which have their own strengths and weaknesses. While everybody knows about the first, you may not...

I posted a few pictures of the Suunto N3 to my photo site. I just wanted to show what comes in the box and how it fits together for those that might be interested....

In response to a comment on my previous post on this topic, I emailed some folks internally to find out what new is planned for Whidbey in the area of Windows Forms - MFC interop. Here is what Anson Tsao , a Program Manager on the VC++ team, had to say:...

OK, so I picked up my new Spot Watch today. I decided on the Suunto because I read everything I could about the different watches available and this is a watch I would buy even if it didn't offer this cool new service. I took some pictures, and I'll post...

Admittedly I haven’t used MS-DOS in quite a while and sadly even after all of the cool advances in Windows I find myself still needing it. For example I have to batch scripts I started to work on today. The first one is supposed to copy all of our...

This article from Business 2.0 magazine (via CNN.com ) attempts to explain what is one of the worst ad campaigns in the history of technology ads- the "little boy" Linux ads from IBM. UPDATE- As my comments indicate, the Business 2.0 article is now prompting...

A while back I started getting tired of the default Outlook reply colors (yeah, I was bored...). The font picker under Options/Mail Format/Fonts doesn't let you choose colors outside the standard 16, and I didn't want to use the Stationery option, so...

I talked on Thursday to Steve Blackburn and Andrew Gray who work on porting JMTk to Rotor. JMTk is a memory management toolkit that is used to implement high-performance garbage collectors. The source code of the port of JMTk to Rotor is available at...

One of the cool things I get to do as a field dev evangelist is host Community Dialog events for technology influentials. While some may wonder if this is a "love fest" for Microsoft groupies, it's really more of a social event to share information and...

As I leave for NYC in a week, I've managed to convince Mrs R (after several years of negotiation) that buying a digital camera would be a good idea (she likes her prints and old-fashioned analog photo albums and doesn't like having to mess with a PC to...

I attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington. While IU is known for many outstanding schools (e.g. School of Music, Business, …) most people know it as the school Bob Knight coached at and even more so for his questionable behavior....

As s.o. from the product team confirmed, the ClickOnce problem that I described in my last entry is specific to the PDC build of Whidbey and will go away in the Beta. So as a workaround, I'll use my Smartphone as a GPRS modem and connect through that...