Blogs|Mar 18, 2007

DevDays Europe

Wintellectuals are spread out to the corners of the globe this week–some for spring break, some for business. I leave this afternoon for DevDays/TechDays Europe to deliver some fun sessions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, and WPF/E. Here’s a quick list of the dates and locations I’ll be speaking in case you’re planning to attend one…
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Blogs|Mar 15, 2007

Implementing Drag-Drop in ASP.NET AJAX

Several folks requested the source code for the ASP.NET AJAX drag-drop example I alluded to in an earlier blog post. Here are the key parts of it (along with some explanations of how it works) that you can borrow using editor inheritance–I mean, cut-and-paste. The first thing you must do to implement rich drag-drop scenarios in ASP.NET…
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Blogs|Mar 13, 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugging to Vista

When you run MSVSMON.EXE on Vista, do you get the dreaded message indicating that you need to set the firewall, but when you do, MSVSMON.EXE errors out with an Incorrect Function message? After much struggle, I finally found the trick to remote debugging working correctly. Many thanks to this post on the MSDN Forums from…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 3, 2007

A Jolly Good Week

DevWeek was a smashing success, and I’m unwinding after a great week of doing talks and mingling with the speakers and delegates. Justin Smith and I stayed over in London for the weekend to attend today’s Arsenal vs. Reading game. It was my first European soccer (oops! football) game ever and it was everything I…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 28, 2007

Vista Ultimate Hold ‘Em Game Secrets

So much more work would happen at Wintellect if I hadn’t installed Vista and downloaded the Hold ‘Em Poker game. Wow! Is it ever addicting! Anyway, as I’ve been playing with the game a bit too much, I thought I’d mention the two secrets I found to speed up your play. The first is that…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 23, 2007

DevWeek Bound

I’m off to London tomorrow for DevWeek, my favorite European developers’ conference. This is the tenth annual DevWeek, and my tenth DevWeek as well. In fact, I’m the only speaker who has been at every DevWeek since its inception. My good friend Nick Payne, who owns and runs the conference, just can’t get rid of…
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web-development|Feb 20, 2007

Asynchronous ASP.NET Programming

In recent months, I’ve taught a number of classes and conference sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important–and under-documented–topics in ASP.NET: asynchronous programming. It is THE secret to building highly scalable ASP.NET Web sites, and yet I rarely encounter developers who are knowledgeable about ASP.NET’s asynchronous programming models. If you have no…
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Blogs|Feb 20, 2007

Drag-Drop in ASP.NET AJAX

One of the most interesting characteristics of ASP.NET AJAX is that the client half (the Microsoft AJAX Library) is full of features not exposed by the server half (the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions). A case in point is drag-drop. The DragOverlayExtender control in the ASP.NET AJAX Futures CTP makes it extremely easy to convert static HTML…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 19, 2007

Favorite Travel Photos

Travel is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s great getting to see exotic and faraway places. On the other hand, it hurts to be away from home a lot, and there’s nothing lonelier than sitting in a hotel room all by yourself on the other side of the world wishing you…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 19, 2007

The Great Wall of China

While in Beijing earlier this month, I took a day trip to the Great Wall of China. I entered the wall through the gate in Badaling, which is about an hour’s drive from downtown Beijing. The air was crisp and cold, but I stayed warm by hiking about a mile in each direction. It’s straight up either way…
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missing-export|Feb 16, 2007

Phenomenal .NET Profiling Tool Upgraded

The fine people at SciTech have released their 30 version of .NET Memory Profiler, the tool if you want to look at your .NET memory. Isn’t it funny, the marketing people tell you that with .NET you no longer have to worry about memory, but what does everyone worry about? Memory! The 3.0 version adds…
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Blogs|Feb 15, 2007

Integrate Vista SDK Help into MSDN Library Help

Since Microsoft hasn’t released an MSDN Library that includes .NET 3.0 and Vista documentation, it’s frustrating because you can’t get F1 help on all the new and shiny bits. If you’ve installed the Vista Platform SDK, you can open MSDN Library and past the following link into the URL field: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_vscccommon/local/CollectionManager.htm. From there you can…
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