Chris Pratley has a gem of a post today discussing how Microsoft is dealing with bugs. His post is an excellent foray into why bugs are so hard to track down and the steps they are taking to resolv...

I think one of the things that makes a good component even better is that when I install it, it automatically installs itself to my Visual Studio.NET toolbox. For a while now, I’ve been looking at ...

For a project that I am working on, we are allowing users to enter a URI into ASP.NET TextBox controls. As I was implementing this, I thought that this would be a wonderful idea for a control. I h...

After using Visual Studio.NET and the MSDN library/built-in help for a few days, I noticed that every time I tried to use the help, a lot of the topics tried to run the Windows installer. The insta...

Earlier this week, I came across a really cool tool for checking and detecting duplicated code throughout a group of files. Simian, although written in Java, works very well for C# code and it is ...

After reducing my main account to a less privileged account, I’ve noticed that the XSLT configuration in the MovablePoster plugin ceases to function properly. This is because this stylesheet is sto...

A few days ago, I stumbled across NSIS, which is a tool that allows you to create installers for Microsoft Windows. It’s released under an open source license and is completely free to use. I real...

When installing a web application, it is often necessary for items in the web.config file to be modified at runtime (eg: database connection strings). Of course, you could include documentation on...

For a project that I’m working on, I wanted to display a dialog that had different header text. I found a really cool way to make this header stand out. Introducing the GradientLabel… using Syste...

This was forwarded to me by a friend, and I felt it necessary to share. The message behind this is quite powerful. Think of life as a juggling game where the juggler has five balls. Those balls...