If you’re ever troubleshooting an IIS-related problem, Microsoft offers a variety of free tools to help in your troubleshooting efforts. Previously you had to download the tools separately, but Microsoft just released the entire bundle as a single convenient download: IIS Diagnostics Toolkit (x86) Also available for IA64 and AMD64. Tools included […]
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We’ve all had it happen. You’re running out of space on your precious C-drive and you start to madly uninstall unneeded programs. Sometimes you even resort to uninstalling programs from C:\Program Files just so you can move them to D:\Program Files. (Chris Sells mentioned doing this dance recently, which is why I’m writing this blog […]
When I’m writing blog entries that need a pic, writing user docs, or entering bugs, all I really want is a screenshot of a particular window. I then busily find myself trying all combinations of ???-PrtSc trying to figure out which combination gives me the active window rather than the entire desktop. I’ve been using […]
Daniel Carbajal asked me to join the Executive Committee for the Calgary .NET User Group and I gratefully accepted. I’m looking forward to deeper involvement with this great group of folks to continue to build a strong .NET community in Calgary.
I have joined Allstream as Leader of Application Development. (Don’t worry – I’m staying in Calgary.) With the new position, you’ll be seeing me much more frequently on the speaking circuit as I talk about .NET technologies and how to apply them to development in the ISV and enterprise.
Scott Hanselman recently blogged about how Internet Explorer was spontaneously disappearing on him. Coincidentally in the past week or so, I recently had the same problem start to happen. Windows Explorer just started to disappear for 5-10 seconds and then reappear. This would happen a few times per day. I was guessing that it wasn’t […]
While simultaneously mucking around with the Indigo RC1 bits, I decided to upgrade to DasBlog 1.8 RC1 and kick the tires. (If my OS can multitask, why can’t I?) Very easy upgrade with some nifty goodies. Great job on the new release to Scott, Omar, and the rest of the DasBlog team! I also decided to […]
Back when I was using BSD Unix and Linux a lot, sym links were incredibly handy creatures. It was with great joy that I recently discovered NTFS Junctions (aka Reparse Points), which are directory-only sym links for NTFS file systems. Junctions are supported in NTFS on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server. Out-of-the-box, Junctions are […]
This is a great whitepaper by M.K. Park of the Visual CSharp Debugger QA team. Whenever I run into Visual Studio debugger problems, I’ll reference it. It’s been around for awhile, but I’m posting the link so I can find it more easily in the future. Blogs are great for increasing your long-term storage capacity.
This has been around for awhile, but I just stumbled on it again today. The Joel Test (by Joel Spolsky of “Joel on Software” fame) is a quick checklist of the quality of a development team. When I’m making recommendations to clients on how to improve their development process, these are the types of things […]
