After running Vista x64 on another machine for a few days; installing various pieces of critical software and seeing that everything seemed to be working smoothly... I've made the full leap on my main desktop machine (the one that now has 4GB of memory). Some interesting "facts":Windows Experience Index reports my processor running ...

I need to run it through it's paces, but I now have a VS2005 macro that will, whenever I successfully build a release mode project, package the project folder into a zip file named [ProjectName]_src_v[OutputAssemblyFileVersion].zip.  And it doesn't require anything additional to be installed on the machine.  And it's not ...

-- Begin Rant -- Now, I'm not sure what the “real” reason behind a decision (albiet a rumor, but I don't doubt it) of pulling the VB namespace from the modified Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 that is being done for the Xbox 360.  My first question, not even VB related, is why in the world would a company want to ...

In the last two days, I've encountered at as many instances where certain members within Microsoft just ain't showin' us VB users any love. The latest Microsoft Download Notifications email states:Download the Complete DirectX SDKThis software development kit includes the DirectX Runtime and the software you need to create ...

You know, I'm all for making some things available for free; but at the same time want to protect my “property” as much as possible.  With great tools such as Reflector being available; you really need to consider using obfuscation to at least make it a little more difficult to reverse engineer your code.  In addition, ...

Less than a week ago I reported a, albiet probably pretty minor, problem with the latest release of SyncToy for Windows XP (v1.1).  I'm happy to report that SyncToy v1.2 for Windows XP has been made available that corrects the issues I raised! Some people might complain that almost a week is too long.  Understand that from the time that ...

I've been using a power toy from Microsoft called SyncToy v1.0 for Windows XP for some time now.  It works great for syncronizing various file types between multiple machines.  In one example I syncronize a projects folder across 5 machines (3 laptops and two pcs) so I can work on these projects on whichever machine I feel like doing so ...

I was talking with a friend of mine last night and the topic of Google vs. Microsoft came up.  Essentially his stance was that Google is “winning” and it's too late for Microsoft to gain momentum to dethrone them in many areas.  I, of course, had the opposite stance.  So why do I have such a stance?  Well, rather ...

When: December 13th, 2005 Come to the event for you chance to win a free copy of DVDs containing both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005!  There are *FIVE* of these to be given away, so you chance is pretty good... Who's presenting?  Good question... the answer is that Stephen Swienton (President FWDNUG and ASP.NET MVP) and Cory ...

Several questions arise surrounding performance with web applications.  Many times it's difficult to tell exactly where the bottleneck in the loading time of the page may be.  Is it the page size, page generation duration, image sizes, number of images, connections to other locations, DNS delays, bandwidth bottleneck or whatever?  ...