Joel Varty

If you are hosting a WCF services in a console app, windows service or any other non-IIS application, you need to listen on a particular url address.  A normal user running an app or service doesn't have permission to do this unless that user is an admin (not a good thing for a wcf service).  So in order to grant permission to reserve the namespace, you need to run a little command.

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When you are working on a Windows Service and you have it running locally from the build folder, you need to stop it before you can build it. 

Here's something I wasn't expecting: Microsoft has released its own chart control.

I was doing some load testing the other year and noticed one of the counters was going off the charts - ASP.Net exceptions.  I couldn't understand why my application, which was behaving fine in every other way, was throwing exceptions.

There's nothing more gratifying than seeing someone else say something about a product you build...

One of the biggest pain points that I find with Visual Studio 2008 is its inconsistency with IntelliSense (arguably, and ironically, its best feature).

If you’re coming from the ASP.Net world and you want to start building silverlight controls, databinding is one those things that works somewhat the same, yet somewhat differently from the standard DataSource, DataBind() world that you may be used to.