I am in the process of installing VC# Express edition. For some particularly wierd reason its taking an awful long time to install for me. The .Net Framework 2.0 Beta has already been installed, an…

The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the ability to track a cell phone's location electronically. Cell phones are being used all the time now by people of all ages and almost all averag…

Our project goal in 2010 was to push out the solved issues and a couple of features in the SharpBox library within a new release. I'm proud to announce that we achieved this goal on the last day of…

Someone at work asked this question so I spent five minutes and banged out this code. If it helps one person, it probably will help many so here it is....

A lot of buzz has been generated by the Imagine Cup in the past week, and it is getting exciting. I hope all the teams are well prepared and will give it their all to win this. I (along with Jason …

Perhaps the greatest architectural change between BizTalk Server 2004 and earlier versions is the introduction of the MessageBox and the subscription mechanism that delivers messages to instances o…

Thanks to Gunnar Kudrjavets, a software tester at Microsoft, for a link to a great article named They Write the Right Stuff from Fast Company. The article is a great look at how the software for th…

It’s finally available at GotDotNet. This took much longer than I expected, and all I can think about right now are the things that still aren’t implemented in it. J Someday I’d like to add a coupl…

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In my spare time (is there ever any?) of the past couple of days I have been manipulating both the ASP.NET Starter Kits and the source code from DotNetNuke . Both frameworks seem to have their adva…

Calling me with a stupid question -- $20

I have previously talked about Microsoft StyleCop. For those that might not know about it, StyleCop is a source analysis tool (different from the static analysis that FxCop performs) that analyzes …

Another presentation for.NET User Groups to use from Microsoft has been made available from the website! Microsoft is giving INETA user groups a new presentation each month.. The name of this month…

> ## RE: Refactoring in Whidbey for VB.NET > > Ouch. Now, I've spent a bunch of time in VB.NET. (Most of our VS test automation is written with it.) But this was too funny not to pass along. If you…

Pretty interesting article about the failure of PKIs at Trust Cannot be Outsourced (via Financial Cryptography).

After the show, I have a new respect for the passion of FoxPro developers. During a panel discussion, they show us .NET panelist that they have had features in their tools, that we are so excited a…

While refining my unhandled exception handler code, I wandered into this question. What is the real difference between the following three statements:

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Looks like less than a month. Rob Conery has listed some details on features to expect. The biggest ones are a command line executable, builders that will generate the site for you, a brand new sta…

I am struck by the consequences of the experience Craig relates in this post: