HOWTO: Print to a USB Printer from DOS in Windows XP

Developers Petition Microsoft To Continue Support For VB6

This is a reminder to myself in the future. When you need to adjust the z-order of controls on a WinForm, you can use the controls' SendToFront and SendToBack methods. A better solution is to go to…

IBF… Are We Seeing the Future of Microsoft SOA Client Architecture?

I found this little nugget while searching the GotDotNet workspaces for an NNTP component. You query it just like you would any database: Select top 100 \ from microsoft.dotnet.framework. Isn't tha…

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HOWTO: Programmatically Accessing Web Content using Basic Authentication

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Windows CE Remote API (RAPI) is the mechanism via which desktop applications can talk with the Windows CE device over ActiveSync connection. However, since RAPI is not supported natively for manage…

Books on My Shelf: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Vamseedhar has been doing a great job, first with http://www.exforsys.com/ and now, he has come up with http://www.itquestionbank.com/, its a site with different ebooks, tutorials, articles, code s…

Well in the past few days I've been reading some posts, which seem to bring back some close by history, is bored by SOAP and more to the point doesn't understand why vendors don't support REST. doe…

OK; I have been holding out on you guys.

I returned this past weekend after a family function. It had me very busy and thus, no blogging for sometime for me :) That said, today I was working with one of my friends over email - she was stu…

Do you fear giving a presentation? I remember not too long ago when I would be required to give a five-minute presentation in front of a class. I thought the world would end. I don’t have what it t…

This is a cool feature of BizTalk 2004! It allows you to map many documents into one or map one document into many. In either case, your inputs will not equal your outputs. This type of mapping doe…

I have to admit, I was under-whelmed in my first pass over the documentation for the new Enterprise Library. After all the hype, I expected to see more dramatic differences in functionality. My fir…

Back to MDC, those were great days in MDC 2004, (I wrote about that before). Today, just half an hour after writing this post, I'll be on my way to the pre-conference day of the MDC. I set a post c…

Testable Designs (Answering Earl's Questions)

I remember seeing a tool like this before, but I couldn’t find it. Searched the net for sometime, and eventually gave up and did my own one.