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The fix to requests for XHTML DTD files from the W3C Web server has been recently released. Windows Update should offer the fix automatically, but you can download and install the fix manually from the following links for various MSXML versions: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=973688
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Next Monday I'll be at DevConnections in Orlando, talking about Velocity (Microsoft Project Code Named "Velocity", if you like formality). It's going to be a bit of a challenge to sum up all that awesomeness into a single session, but I promise I'll do
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Congratulations to the folks working on the Windows Performance Toolkit and friends! There's now a developer center you can use as a portal with pointers to resources, downloads, forums, FAQs, and guides to learning about the tools and getting started.
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has recently had a refresh to its performance tools. You can read more about it on the What's New for Performance Profiling Tools for WPF post. The suite of tools includes a bunch of very interesting tools, one of
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I find it interesting that even after working on .NET code for years, I still keep evolving my usage of the platform and style. Today's post is an example of such a thing. Hopefully you already know about the Debug.Assert API. This allows you to make
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The Sysinternals tools have been popular for years and years - they do what they do exceedingly well, and can help troubleshoot all sorts of problems. Well, using them just got easier - as this post announces, there is a beta Sysinternals Live service
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I was just reading How to speed up Windows Vista on tech.msn.com, written by Scott Dunn of PC World, and it got me thinking about what I do to get a more responsive system (anything to shorten those build+test cycles!) 1. I have a USB drive for Windows
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If you haven't looked at what's new for 2008 for the performance tools. There are some nice things going on. The MSDN article on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337887.aspx discusses some of them. Comparing reports is useful, and some of my
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Mark Russinovich has a new post about diagnosing CPU spikes with Process Explorer and KernRate , including how to set Process Explorer up to run in the background every time you log in. Pretty handy to have it there by the time your CPU becomes sluggish
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Just like System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch is fabulously useful for a quick and dirty test that you can use to measure performance while prototyping something, so is System.Diagnostics.Process very useful when you need to make sure that your test is using
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