NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released
NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released: At long last, NUnit 2.1 is released in its initial Beta version. Highlights of this release include support for the .NET framework...
ASP.NET WebServices calling Apartment-Threaded COM Components…
Scott Hanselman’s Weblog: If you’ve ever had to call a VB6 Component from an ASP.NET (ASMX) XML Web Service, you may (most probably) get threading errors. In...
sitecopy for Win32
sitecopy is a program for maintaining and synchronizing local and remote copies of web sites. The program will upload files to the server which have changed ...
VSIP Developer Community Center
VSIP Developer Community Center: Register to become a Visual Studio Industry partner and get FREE access to the VSIP SDK. As a VSIP you will have access to t...
IIS Debug Toolkit: IIS Crash/Hang Agent & IIS Dump (Version 1.1)
_Two tools make up the IIS Debug toolkit and are designed to help figure out what requests were in flight when IIS terminates unexpectedly or take action whe...
Gotcha with STAThreadAttribute and Managed C++
Adam Nathan: Gotcha with STAThreadAttribute and Managed C++
HttpResponse.WriteFile
_Someone please fix the braindead implementation that loads the whole file into memory before returning it to the client._ [[Simon Fell](http://www.pocketsoa...
Filtered exception handling
_[Duncan](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma) points out a [little something extra](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/posts/10518.aspx) that VB.NET's Try...Catch ...
Creating Windows ISO CD images
iunknown.com: Steve Shockley set me a pointer via my comments to the Windows Compact Disk Management Script. Thanks, Steve! I wish I had known about this BEF...
Visual Basic faces uncertain future in .NET world
Scott Swigart: Also, yes, VB existed before .NET, but I don’t see what’s muddled about the language. If you want to see a kludge, look at what happened to C...
Framework 1.1 and NUnit gotcha
iunknown.com:
Static methods and locking
Richard Birkby points to the Dr GUI article about locking with static methods: A Special Dr. GUI: Don’t Lock Type Objects!
Web Services Enhancements 2.0 Tech Preview
Download the WSE 2.0 Technology Preview, which includes a policy framework, enhanced security model, and a lightweight, message-oriented, SOAP programming m...
DirectCast revealed
Panopticon Central: Essentially, if you know that what you’re converting is exactly what you say it is, then you can use DirectCast to bypass the little bit...
Language divergence
After what I wrote yesterday, I came across PaulV’s comments on the same subject:
The Big Mistage of VB.NET
So even though a lot of C# developers wish VB would just go away, it’s not going to happen. [Sean ‘Early’ Campbell & Scott ‘Adopter’ Swigart’s Radio Webl...
Never have a red/blue person work for a black/white person
simplegeek: I once talked to a guy that ran a game development company. He talked about the artists that he employeed. Developers, he said, saw problems as ...
SMART disk utilities
_I just downloaded a copy of [ActiveSMART](http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/) after my BIOS told me to replace my HDD on my desktop computer. The only reas...