Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft's servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server cache directory with all the source code and symbols. Microsoft did Read More...

Eons ago in Internet years, I wrote what proved to be a very popular tool, Tester , the latest edition appeared in my second book. With it you could record and playback UI automation scripts. While Tester wasn't perfect, the number of companies using Read More...

As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I've installed it on one machine so far and I thought I'd mention a few things I found interesting. The install took exactly an hour for me and was far better than the Visual Read More...

On a particular Vista machine, I was setting up a PerfMon view to monitor the .NET memory performance of an application and ran into a problem. The.NET Memory # Bytes in All Heaps Performance Counter wasn't in the list of performance counters. That was Read More...