I've recently started development work with the Compact Framework on a Windows CE mobile device. I've had the opportunity to dabble a bit before with CF development, but this is the first time I've been tasked with building anything more than the classic 'hello world' type of application. The application I'm building will read...

Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP (and probably others) ship with a built-in network interface driver called the "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" that lets you create a local-only network interface device. This adapter can be extremely useful when you are doing development testing using Virtual PC and want to isolate your Virtual PC's from your main...

Recently, a community member posted a question to the WindowsForms.NET site forums asking about the basic events that are fired in Forms and User Controls in Windows Forms applications. After digging through the MSDN documentation and various other sources (amazingly, it doesn't seem like the complete list is documented in any one place),...

Microsoft has made a hotfix available for Virutal PC 2004 (post SP1) that fixes a bug that occurs when you leave a VirtualPC instance running, suspend your system, resume your system, and can no longer interact with the VirtualPC guest. KB889677 - Describes the problem when the computer resumes from hibernation, Virtual PC 2004 stops responding...

Guest speaker Andrew Duthie (Microsoft's Developer Evangelist for the mid-atlantic) will be giving a presentation on the Security Block of Enterprise Library: The Microsoft Enterprise Library Security Application Block, version 1.0, helps developers implement common security-related functionality in their applications. Applications can use...

James Edelen has a great post on the steps to take in order to stress test a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 web site. We recently wrapped up development for our internal SharePoint Portal server project and performed much the same steps as did James, but we added some additional performance counters to our Microsoft ACT scripts. The benefit...

Recently we had the need to implement a more standardized way of logging information and handling exceptions in our SharePoint Portal webparts. In previous applications, we have used the various Microsoft Application Blocks and other tools (such as log4net) for our needs. If you haven’t heard yet, the “Enterprise Library” is the next...

Our development team recently encountered a cryptic “No results are available due to a network failure” error message while developing our new company portal based on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (product link). The problem, as it turned out, was caused by the deletion of a user profile property called “Work Phone” (of...

TestDriven.NET is a popular plug-in for Visual Studio .NET (formerly known as NUnitAddIn) that allows you to easily run your unit tests within the IDE. Some of my favorite features include: Ability to run your test on a single method, within a class, or within a namespace Jump into the debugger by defining breakpoints within your test...