Microsoft Yet Again Confounds Me In Ways I Never Would Have Predicted - A Trajedy in One Part
I know this will come as a surprise to some of you, but Microsoft Windows really is a terrible operating system. A joke. A bad car accident.
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training and Certs for Free!
I was trolling around the Visual Studio 2008 learning site and found all kinds of goodies. Thought I'd share for anyone who has not been to the site... more »
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Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
We are very pleased to announce the publication of our white paper Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development. This white paper forms part of... more »
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Flash exploit served by Microsoft
Microsoft site (msn.no) serves trojan to thousands of users due to known Flash Player bug.
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ASP.NET Myths Busted
Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from... more »
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Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2
mswatcher 
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I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known... more »
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Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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Drag and Drop Text Files from Windows Explorer to your Windows Form Application
This is a short article describing how you can drag and drop files from your Desktop/Windows Explorer to your Windows Form application. In this... more »
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IE8 Performance
Kirill Grouchnikov via blogs.msdn.com
Rather than join the chorus and trumpet IE as the fastest browser in the universe, this post is my attempt to demystify the performance work that is... more »
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Is It Time to Ditch IE6?
IE6 turns 7 years old this week. Its successor is almost two years old, and IE8 is on the horizon. So why do so many web sites still support it? Why... more »
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Simple Virtual Desktops on Vista - Desktops 1.0 Released
The Sysinternals team has released virtual desktops for Vista in the form of: Desktops v1.0, a super simple app to give you 4 virtual desktops in... more »
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Boo Lang Studio 1.0 Alpha it out!
Jeffery Olson has just made the first release of Boo Lang Studio available. This one comes with a "Yes, Dear" installer.
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Intel, Microsoft converge on parallel computing
Today, the two hardware and software giants announced a joint project to create tools for parallel programming on Intel chips. The tools will be... more »
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Why Data as a Service isn't a Bad Idea
Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea but Data as Service isn't a Bad Idea Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a... more »
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Bitwise Operation Explained
Few well known bitwise operation problem collection
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Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET – Part I
This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have... more »
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Windows based programmers... Stop hating CLIs (Command Line Interfaces)
If you are a unix/linux lover, this article may not be of interest to you, because you should be knowing the power of CLIs in *nix operating systems.... more »
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Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or not) and My Silverlight Wishlist
I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some... more »
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Welcome to Engineering Windows 7
Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering... more »
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.aspx extension instead of .php? WHY???
For some reason, there are some people who write web sites with PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY???
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Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake with ASP.NET
I read this article from Rick Strahl, ASP.NET gets no Respect - Rick Strahl’s Web Log, and the comments that follow with great interest because just... more »
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ASP.NET gets no Respect
Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!
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XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
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VB.Net: Single Instance application the better way
A better way to create a single instance application
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