Rockford Lhotka has an article on MSDN the discusses XML configuration files and demonstrates how to create custom sections using pre-existing section handlers or by building new ones. This topic ...

The code is available for download, but the article isn’t up just yet. It’s on “working with the WMP Blogger plug-in”. You can download the code here. As soon as the article is posted, I’ll add ...

It was reported to me that my links were incorrect in the RSS feed. The permalinks.aspx was showing as off of the root, instead of /blog like it should have been. Well, I had the value set to htt...

The guys over at Early & Adapter point out tha (when commenting on the article by angryCoder (aka Jonathan)): Jonathan is certainly angry, but he’s also incorrect about couple of things. It’s...

angryCoder states some relatively valid rants about VS.NET making some things easier for VB.NET developers; but causes problems when using command line tools to compile the code. I love how this e...

I successfully ran some upgrades of a couple of very large windows applications through the upgrade wizard included in the 2003 version. It was successful :-) This was actually to my shock, since...

According to Brad Abrams (and it makes perfect sense) using String.Length, the code path is “significantly shorter”; however, there is not memory effect since there is always an empty string availa...

Duncan Mackenzie: I wrote an article back in August 2002 on some of the API calls that were documented as part of the Microsoft settlement agreement… but in the end, I never published it… so here i...

After reading some comments by Alex Hoffman, I’ve put together a quick and dirty function that will do some of what he is complaining that VB.NET isn’t capable of doing. I’ve also made it so that ...

Landmark Theatres and Microsoft Corp. announced that they are equipping 177 screens in all 53 Landmark Theatres across the United States with digital cinema playback systems based on Microsoft® Win...