So there I was knee deep in a great debugging challenge. On one machine, I had set up somewhere around 15 advanced breakpoints that had all sorts of properties set such as conditionals, hit counts, and so on. As I was feeling like I was getting close Read More...

If you're using WiX 2.0, my Paraffin tool can help you automate some of your setup chores. To read more about Paraffin, see the three part article, Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . Thanks to Matthew Goos who sent me the patch, there's a new –dirref when Read More...

Perception is everything. That applies to everything in life and certainly applies to Vista. It doesn't take much web searching to find plenty of commentary indicating that Vista has not been well received and is often downright hated. In a lot of ways, Read More...

So Charles Petzold tagged me for this Software Development Meme and did that hurt. Just kidding. J It's the first time I've been tagged since I was like five years old. Anyway, here goes: How old were you when you first started programming? 26. Yes, I Read More...

Craig Shoemaker recently interviewed me about my favorite topic, debugging, of course, for Pixel 8 . We had a great time on the interview and I even got to tell one of my favorite debugging war stories. We also talked about all the parts of .NET that Read More...