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John Mollman's Dispatches from Badger Hall and Redmond
cleaning up older .net beta framework installations
I’ve been working with Visual Studio 2010 betas for a while now (it’s really great) and have gone...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2009
Managing Internal Connection Strings in SQL CLR code during testing
One thing that’s somewhat painful about testing/debugging SqlClr application code is managing the...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2007
Making Friends in the CLR
My boss and I were lamenting the lack of the "friend" declaration in the CLR languages like C# this...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2006
Doc Watson: Nicest Man in Show Business?
Went with the family to see Doc Watson play at the Woodland Park Zoo last night. The zoo hosts...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 07/20/2006
Microsoft to Supply ECUs for Formula One (Sort Of)
I'm on my annual F1-oriented vacation and travelled to Indianapolis for the USGP again. I'm a big...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2006
WSJ on Craigslist
File under "Goliath interviews David, Remains Incredulous." Saturday's Wall Street Journal has an...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2006
MTPS ContentServices and MSDNMan
Craig Andera has been working with my team on a set of web services exposing MSDN2 content hosted by...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 06/13/2006
MSDN Aggregation System Article
An article I wrote for MSDN Magazine covering the metadata aggregation system my team developed has...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 06/12/2006
Jeff Tweedy at the Moore
It's been a Wilco-oriented week. Followed up Monday's Nels Cline show with a Jeff Tweedy solo show...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 02/03/2006
VSLive Talk Resources
I promised to post links to some of the resources I mentioned in my talk at VSLive this week. Here...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2006
Honeynet Project Paper on Phishing Techniques
Another interesting paper from the Honeynet Project. This one relates their discoveries about the...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2005
Gridswarms
"Imagine a large group of small unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles that can fly with the agility of...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 05/17/2005
Changes to VS Mapping of CLR Objects to Yukon Data Types under Whidbey Beta2
I'm working on a project that makes extensive use of Yukon's CLR integration. This makes things that...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 04/19/2005
Task Switcher on Steroids
Steve Butler turned me on to this nifty utility that replaces the stock Task Switcher functionality....
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 04/18/2005
MSDN Forums Beta Launch
The MSCOM Community Team has launched a spiffy new way for the developer community to find answers...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 04/08/2005
Jeff Tweedy & Lawrence Lessig on File Sharing
From WilcoWorld: "Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig will discuss their...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2005
The Last Slobberbone Show and Legitimate Music Trading
Slobberbone is (was) a terrific band from Denton, Texas. Sort of alt.country (whatever that is) I...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2005
Honeynet Project Paper on Botnets
A great overview on Botnets: how they work, how they are used, and how to observe them using...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 03/15/2005
Jeff Prosise on ASP.net 2.0
Videos for several talks on ASP.net 2.0 given by Jeff Prosise have been posted to MSDN. He's a great...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2005
Manually Editing XML Schemas in BizTalk 2004
I'm evaluating the use of BizTalk 2004 as the underpinnings for v.next of a project, and as I ramp...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2005
PureText: a Handy Clipboard De-formatting Utility
I seem to spend a lot of time cutting text from web pages or Visual Studio and pasting it into email...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2004
The Really Important November Release
Have you ever felt like you were seriously out of touch? Like what was important to you wasn't...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2004
Tuning ClearType (Underappreciated Technologies Series)
I recently got a new laptop, and in the process of setting it up discovered a great utility for...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2004
Windows Installer: Installing for Everyone in a Silent Install
[updated: cleaned up links] I got bitten last week by a subtlety in the way Windows Installer...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2004
STL.net
Great news for fans of std::sort(list.begin(), list.end()) who write managed code: Visual C++ 2005...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2004
Upgrading Qwest DSL Line to DMT
I upgraded Badger Hall's DSL line last week from CAP to DMT. Painless? No (this is Qwest, after...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2004
NDoc and dotnetfx sp1 TP
[updated: cleaned up links] Ran into a bug in the shadow copy cache code in the technical preview of...
Author: John Mollman [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2004