Mark Pearce describes how to debug a .Net Windows service from Visual Studio: To do this, you need to emulate what the Service Control Manager (SCM) does when it starts your service — in other words, invoke your service’s OnStart method. In VB, this looks like: ...

One of my favorite recent blogs is Jensen Harris' excellent blog on the Office 12 user experience. As a former (and still occasional) instructor, I am very interested to see how they've re-thought almost the entire user interface for the next version of Office. I wasn't fortunate enough to get picked for the Beta 1 for Office 12, however. (Actually, its worse than that. I didn't even bother to sign up because I thought the Beta 1 would be available to MSDN subscribers. Oops.) I was very in

Hello World! I've been lurking around the blogosphere a little too long, and have a bad habit of posting long rambling discussions in other peoples' blogs. I guess I finally need a place to place my OWN rants and comments. I'll be making posts about...