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I've spent most of my day today trying to copy some files from one location to another using MSBuild. This is something I've done plenty of times before, but in this case I was trying to do something other than just copy an entire directory of...
For several years now I've been involved in a long running consultancy project with a local software development outfit. They are a small outfit and, not meaning to be derogatory in any way, their developers are mainly self-taught from the bedroom hacker...
Visual C++ has this cool technology called It Just Works, or IJW for short, which allows seamless interoperation between managed and unmanaged code. Now, with the introduction of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Microsoft has obviously invented a new...
I came across this post about dealing with unhandled ASP .NET exceptions on the blog of one of the Microsoft escalation engineers. It also mentions a Knowledge Base article on creating a custom HTTPHandler module to trap unhandled exceptions that may...
I've posted a brief article here on my blog site giving details of those books that I've found most useful over the years. If you're interested you can find it here and I'll keep updating it regularly as I come across new and interesting books. One of...
I'm a firm believer that a professional developer should also be a reader. You don't stop learning the day you walk out of college and any developer worth their salt will continue to learn through reading books on the subject of software development....
I know it comes in for quite a bit of villification, but when you stop to think about it the Windows registry is in many respects a good idea. Having a single central repository for application configuration information can be kind of useful. I recently...