For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the…

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released yesterday, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bc247d88-ddb6-4d4a-a595-8eee3556fe46 O…

You may see this error – more than once – when working with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 deployment. This animal / error generally shows itself after you have applied an upgr…

Recruit Officer: Have you given any thought to your future, son? Forrest Gump: “Thought”?

I was thinking a little ‘tongue in cheek’ when I came up with the title for this one. To add to the growing number of “Seven Habits” resources, I’ll add one on BizTalk. I wouldn’t say I was a “High…

Media Type Formatters in the WCF Web API provide a way for the consumer of your service to not only specify the format they want for their response, but also specify the format they are using on th…

So on a lark, I threw my hat into the ring for Portland Code Camp 2.0, I didn’t expect to get accepted, there were already a few sessions on unit testing and nunit but I figured, what the heck, let…

If you work with any kind of healthcare data, then odds are you’ll deal with NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers. The NPI is a 10-digit number consisting of 9 digits (with the first digit be…

IntroductionI’ve been asked a few times how the performance of WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Rules compares with that of the Microsoft Business Rules Engine (MS BRE). Having done no testing, I c…

Some applications are just bent on seeing what appears to be the pristine original Default Web Site that is created when IIS is first installed. For instance, when setting up Microsoft’s own Report…

One of the features that has been available since the Vista days and is also contained in the Windows 7 release is Microsoft’s Desktop Gadgets. Gadgets have become quite the popular set of little t…

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\[Original Post Date: 9th October 2005\]I just finished implementing WIVisualizer, a WindowsIdentity debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005. It displays important details like:

On January 1st I switched focus to 100% Azure. My friend and colleague David Gristwood has been firmly focused on Azure through 2009 working with early adopters. We decided to record a podcast talk…

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One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool na…

Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might fi…

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In May 2004, Microsoft published a whitepaper entitled ‘Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics’ (MBTS-PC04)[\[1\]](https://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/admin/EditArticles.aspx#ftn1)…