So as I'm going to be attempting this in the next few weeks it is interesting to note that this would appear to still be an issue with the RTM of 2008 as the Hyper-V is still in beta.

For those of us that implement INotifyPropertyChanged on our state objects, the new Automatic Properties feature of Visual Studio 2008 hasn't been very useful. In fact, the snippet prop that used t…


So someone was bound to do it sooner or later... might as well be me ;-).

One of the most common questions I get about FTP has to do with error 425, "Can't open data connection." This is indeed a protocol level error that is defined in the RFC. Its meaning is obvious: th…

Does transferring a terabyte of data via sneakernet make sense? First, consider the bandwidth capabilities and monthly cost of a few common Internet connections.

I was pondering late last night how can I get along with the new Zune software. No more name calling and bashing the moderators at Zune.net forums. I needed to be a responsible Zunian(no I am not a…

Update: Added new Hanselminutes show on F# and other links With the new year comes new challenges. Recently I've been looking to take my background in statistics and get back into graduate school. …

The Problem : What is the first term in the Fibonacci sequence to contain 1000 digits?

3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango

Well, we had another great DC ALT.NET meeting last night. I want to send a special thank you to CMAP, Randy Hayes and Chris Steen for allowing us to crash the architecture special interest group. I…

While playing around with WPF, I tried to do some multithreading where I have a worker thread updating my ObservableCollection, while having a ListCollectionView of that ObservableCollection being …

Date: Saturday March 1st, 2008 Event Description: In case you aren't familiar with Code Camps, they are designed to provide a forum for the developer community to speak, network and share ideas. In…

Thanks to Virtual PC's inability to utilize USB (insert the 'Old Bit' siren sound) and my need for USB support in my virtual machines, I'm in the process of moving some VPC images to VMWare Worksta…

I've been reading lately about what people are interested in with the next version of C#. It's amazing to think how far the language has come from the early days. Many of the newer features of the …

I've encountered a problem trying fix the WCF / WPF Visual Studio 2005 Integration components after I've installed Visual Studio 2008.

Update: Adding Visual Studio Integration discussion Update: Stay tuned for additional posts in this series as things permit Well, this is my last post in the series to wrap things up. This will be …

The PUT method not as widely used as the POST method is the more efficient way of uploading files to a server. This is because in a POST upload the files need to be combined together into a multipa…

 This is the first month I have been involved with submitt…

I've been running Vista on my work laptop since the first quarter of this year and on my development system at home since August. So far, I haven't had too many problems with it. Actually, on my ho…