Many people and organizations are confused about the difference between quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and testing. They are closely…

If possible, get the powers that be on your project to provide you with two monitors (preferably flat-screen and of the same size), and use the dual…

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BizTalk 2004 supports long-running and atomic transactions within Orchestrations. The model has changed a bit from earlier versions, and atomic…

Most developers understand the classical 'ACID' concept of a transaction as an atomic unit of work that, when performed, moves the system from one…

Today, the expression "the devil to pay" is used primarily to describe having an unpleasant result from some action that has been taken. An example is…

It is official, well, it has been for a couple weeks but you can all understand. I have accepted a job at Microsoft and will be starting on May 3. I am…

The reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached such epic proportions, that in the 1800s the British Government decided to take strong measures to…

Ever seen this error when debugging a web app in the VS.NET IDE: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. You do…

BizTalk 2004's XLANG/s language is syntactically reminiscent of C#, and it is natural to assume that it exhibits similar features. In fact, XLANG/s is…

While Gmail is in focus, I found SpyMac, which not only provides 1 GB of email space but also provides 100 MB of web space, Private and Public iCal…

There are few of us who at one time or another have not been admonished to "mind our P's and Q's," or in other words, to behave our best. Oddly enough,…

Perspective’s prospect: Glass is Half full or Glass is Half Empty Some interviewers sought to have a typical candidate who is more of positive and growth…

I don't know how this one escaped my attention. In Whidbey, there is a new window that you can dock in your IDE. It is called “System Window” and you can…

Stephen Walther was named a Software Legend by Microsoft today in recognition of his contribution to the Microsoft developer community as an author,…

I was talking about transferring the profile before in the day, now I am giving you a solution if you have problems while logging off and your profiles do…

Microsoft is going to be providing free presentations for user groups to utilize via the content repository. The newest (and first) presentation from this…

30.96647% - Total Geek Yeah, I'm a Total Geek. I think the Geek Test (link via Rai) is flawed though. First of all, it asks many questions that pertain…

“ Buy stamps to send e-mail “ says Bill Gates, to decrease and put hold on spammers now a new idea arises where we might have to pay to send out email…

Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object So, I'm about to create my data access layer... \flashback sequence begins\ ...and I reach for my Patterns of…