CLR Profiler Available

Nov 14, 2003 1 min.

Jan Gray talks about the update to the CLR Profiler We’ve just updated the CLRProfiler distribution. Once again, we’re shipping both the source and the prebuilt binaries, and this time we’re delighted to include a terrific ~100 page tutorial and reference manual written by the tool’s author, Peter Sollich. I think this new documentation greatly enhances the power and utility of the profiler by demonstrating how to use its features more effectively — for example, how to diagnose a memory leak.

Is this just a technology thing…

Nov 14, 2003 1 min.

It seems to me that you just have to be in technology to fully understand this comic; But if you are, it is such a reality of your day to day life that I want to blow it up 3 or 4x and post it on my wall.

Network Connections, or SneakerNet Evolved

Nov 14, 2003 2 min.

My music system is finally hooked back up in my new house (after months of sitting unplugged) but I didn’t have a network connection available for it. Well, the recent release of some new networking standards have made 802.11b adapters rather cheap so I picked one up today and went to install it onto my music system…. hmm… no LAN, no CD, no floppy… no way to get drivers to this machine at all… so no way to install the new device.

Longhorn Preview now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Nov 13, 2003 1 min.

The Longhorn preview distributed at the PDC is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads for active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers as well as for Certified Partner and Breadth ISV/Empower members.

Slides, Slides, Slides

Nov 13, 2003 1 min.

I updated a ton of sessions on the PDC site today, many (yep, I’m being vague… I don’t have the details with me at the moment) sessions that didn’t have slides do now. You may also notice that the location of the PPT files has changed… I moved them all to a different location (the download center of Microsoft.com) and I will eventually be pulling down the old ones (that were on a GotDotNet location), so don’t count on any of the earlier direct file URLs to stay valid.

Lost Files

Nov 11, 2003 1 min.

Julia appears to have lost something I downloaded and installed the VB Language Enhancements for Whidbey White Paper & code from an MSI and cannot freakin’ find it anywhere! 🙂 I had to stop looking after 20 minutes. So hopefully, I’ll update this post with the location after Duncan or someone can clue me in. I’m not mad. I think it’s kind of funny. Ok, Ok… so I built that install file… so I guess I’m the one to blame.

User Groups put on some pretty amazing FREE sessions

Nov 11, 2003 1 min.

Cory Smith posted about an upcoming session at the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, G. Andrew Duthie talking about ASP.NET (November 18th)… this sounds to me like a PDC-quality session, for free and with a lot more time for audience interaction. If you are in that part of the country, and you are interested in ASP.NET, you should make some time to head on over. If you are looking for a user group in your own area, check out INETA.

ClickOnce and “locked down” systems

Nov 11, 2003 2 min.

Ron Krauter posted this comment to one of my earlier posts; re: Reading Blogs… 11/2/2003 9:59 AM Ron Krauter Hi, I read your excellent article about ClickOnce on msdn. One of the problems we are having is deploying applications to users machine that have user only access. Unfortunately, the users are not able to install the application as they do not have admin priviledges. We, the admins, end up going to the client machine and installing the application by using “RUNAS”.

Oh man… PAG just keeps producing those blocks!

Nov 10, 2003 1 min.

**Logging Application Block ** http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/Logging.asp “This block is a reusable code component that uses the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) and the Microsoft .NET Framework to help you design instrumented applications.” I’m getting behind… I guess I have to just add this to my list of things to read and try out. ([Listening To](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun04252003.asp): Emergency [[The Tragically Hip](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=The+Tragically+Hip) / Day for Night])

A new MSDN TV episode with Brad Abrams about WinFX has been posted

Nov 8, 2003 1 min.

Erica doesn’t have a blog, so I’m just trying to be helpful… http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20031107WINFXBA/manifest.xml What is WinFX -The New Programming Interface Introduced in Windows “Longhorn” Learn the object-oriented, managed API for the breadth of Windows “Longhorn” and how it relates to the work you are already doing on the .NET Framework.