MSBuild 3.5 Tips and a Small MSBuild 4.0 Wish List
Earlier this week, I spent some quality time porting a moderately complicated build over to MSBUILD 3.5, the version that comes with Visual Studio 2008. There are numerous new features […]
I’m Official!
Last Thursday morning, I got up bright and early and headed south for the Florida International Jet Rally in Lake Wales, FL. The goal was to get more stick time […]
itoldyouso – An Undocumented WinDBG Extension Command
Aaron Lerch recently wrote about a funny name for an exported function he saw exported from DBGHELP.DLL, itoldyouso. Aaron showed a small section of the Dependency Walker output, which piqued […]
Silverlight Streaming in Action
One of the least talked about (and least understood) facets of Silverlight is Silverlight Streaming (SLS). Silverlight Streaming is a service provided by Windows Live for hosting and streaming Silverlight […]
WiX: A Better TALLOW – PARAFFIN (Part 3 of 3)
In the first installment of this series I discussed an introduction to WiX. In the second installment, I talked about the issues related to creating .WXS files with TALLOW.EXE and […]
WiX: The Pain of WiX (Part 2 of 3)
In the first part of this series I gave an introduction to WiX. In this second installment of this three part series, I am assuming that you’ve read through the […]
WiX: Hints for New Users (Part 1 of 3)
If you remember some of the early pronouncements about .NET you probably heard the one where using .NET meant you could just XCOPY your binaries to the server and run […]
Complete Virtual Machine Backups with Mere Minutes of Downtime
Last week, I completely virtualized my life. Well, at least my server life is all virtualized. I’d been running my Team Foundation Server in a virtual machine, but took the […]
AJAX, Source Code, and Turbine Power
People often ask me which books I’d recommend on ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, or Silverlight. They’re sometimes taken aback when I reply that I can’t recommend one because I don’t read computer […]