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Debugging ASP.NET, the CLR and anything that uses clock cycles.

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May 2007 - Posts

Silverlight grab bag
I was trying to catch up on what Silverlight is all about the other night and spent some time seeing what's out there in the way of information, demos etc. Here is a quick roundup of what I found Useful downloads: Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (you'll need to Read More...
What's wrong with this message?
One of my machines wasn't responding this morning so I switched my switch box to it and saw this: Keyboard failure Press F1 to continue or F2 to run setup Hmm. Doug Read More...
Good article on making ASP.NET applications perform well
Came across this article recently (someone pointed it out to me but I can't remember who, sorry). It has 15 timeless tips for ensuring your ASP.NET applications perform well. Talking about performance, if you are looking for a tool to test your application's Read More...
Popfly - interactive web development for the masses
We've just unwrapped Popfly , a very cool web development platform aimed at the consumer web developer. There is a webcast that shows what can be achieved with it, all built on top of the recently announced Silverlight . Impressive stuff.... Doug Read More...
The creative application of technology..
Tess told me about this. I think you can figure out what is going on even if, like me, you don't understand Swedish. I think I need to implement this too . Read More...
If a problem is hard, break it in two
I took over a case from my colleague Carlo the other day. Carlo has already blogged about it in some detail so I won't go over the detail again. We both spent quite a bit of time solving it so I tried to reflect afterward on why it took us the time it Read More...
Error 1718 when installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
In my job I have to regularly install, uninstall and reinstall various things, including Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and I have hit the above error many times. I previously relied on Heath's blog posting about this but my colleague Phil kindly brought Read More...
New preview release of WinDBG available (6.7.5)
After a long gap from the last release of WinDBG, the debugger team have released an update. Note that this is a preview or beta release however in my experience such releases from the debugger team are rock solid and as stable as "proper" releases. Also, Read More...
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