Todd Carter's WebLog

I am frequently asked about the various .Net framework versions floating around. As the .Net framework continues to go through its various revs the waters will only become muddier. Here is a quick overview of each version we have to date… .Net 1.0 – This Read More...

Up to this point Microsoft has always required customers to make a phone call into Microsoft Product Support to receive a hotfix. Today we have made available a web application that allows customers to fill out a simple web form and receive the hotfix Read More...

The other day I had a friend of mine approach me about a possible bug he had found in the CLR memory perfomance counters. He pointed me to a performance log where his customer had captured a log that showed that the Bytes in All Heaps exceeded that of Read More...

Today I ran across an issue that my good buddy Tess hit with one of her customers a while back. The application in question here is an ASP.NET web application that is exhibiting fairly high memory usage after almost a day of usage (approx 400-500 MB). Read More...

Back when I did most of my coding with C++ I really liked the simplicity and compactness of using class constructors and destructors to do simple tasks such as setting a wait or busy cursor. For example, consider the code in Figure 1. It is a compact Read More...

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours running through a live debug via Office Live Meeting (OLM) to narrow down a customer’s issue. The customer was attempting to run a .Net control from his web pages. These work fine if the user is an admin or a normal Read More...