Category Archives: Development

  Anyone that has done development on Windows has had their fair share of frustrations on getting nice icons for their application and their buttons.  I’ve used Axialis IconWorkshop on and off until a couple of years ago and have missed … Continue reading →

Visual Studio 2008 is an absolutely incredible product.  But there are a few gotchas here and there and one just knocked me in the head.  Not a big deal, but upon first glance, if you’re in a hurry, you might … Continue reading →

  Hyper-V went RTM today!!!!  Everybody get up and do the virtual boogie!!!  

      Just a quick update.  The problem I was having sync’ing between my Windows 2008 Server and my Windows Mobile 6.0 Treo was due to a problem in the phone, not in     the Server.  After a couple of hours … Continue reading →

Sorry for the belated notice, this was turned loose on 6/3/08.   Great news!!!!   Windows Installer 4.5 is now available!!!!!!   New and improved features in Windows Installer 4.5:      The following new and improved features have been implemented in … Continue reading →

Oh and I forgot one more thing.  On my new machine (Dell Precision T5400), when I installed 64-bit Windows 2008, I could no longer use the DVD-RW.  It just wouldn’t recognize any disk I put in.  But I found a … Continue reading →

This is soooooo cool!!!!   TableDiff.exe • Table Difference tool allows you to discover and reconcile differences between a source and destination table or a view. Tablediff Utility can report differences on schema and data. The most popular feature of … Continue reading →

OK, I think I should clarify something about what I said in regards to all of the Microsoft JIT’ed assignments are volatile.   Yes, that is a true statement, but you cannot simply take that out of context and say “Well, … Continue reading →

I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time.  I’ve only been with Microsoft for 18 months and it has been a blast.  Great people to work with, great technology and an incredible area.    I received my first Ship-It … Continue reading →

Just 58 more days until the 2008 Global Launch Wave! Windows Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 SQL Server 2008 Just like a belated Christmas!  So many toys in each!  It’s going to shake up the computing world! Happy Coding!   … Continue reading →