A client asked me the other day what happened to File->Properties in Word 2007. They simply couldn't find it.In the Beta1 TR, I remember it was confusingly located on the Status Bar (!) – … more

The following code is perfectly valid C#, and compiles without errors: int _;_ = 5; If we take it a bit further, we can do something like this: int _, __, ___, ____; _ = 5; __ = 10; ___ = 15; ____ = 2 … more

How many times have you connected to a server via Remote Desktop to install some components?How many have you rebooted a remote server and sat around waiting for it to go up?How many times have you … more

I've mentioned it before, but SysInternal's DebugView is a great utility. It allows you to get the Debug.WriteLine() strings from your application even when you're not attached with a debugger, … more

I'm uninstalling an old beta of the Sharepoint servers from a VPC I have on my computer to make room for the newer Beta 2 servers, and I noticed several things: 1) The installation originally … more

WCF's Instance Context model allows me to specify my service's instantiation behavior - I can get a new instance for every call, have WCF manage a session for me and keep an instance per session, or … more

Taking a break from the main components, I decided to get around to writing a small configuration editor using .NET 2.0's lovely ability to edit .config files from code. I have a custom Section … more

It's easy to forget that even though a local filesystem path ("C:\MyDir\MyFile.dll") can be represented as a Uri (file://C:/MyDir/MyFile.dll), these two entities are different, and have different … more