Aaron Lerch

I just saw that the registration site for the Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 launch event is up and accepting registrations. (via DotNetKicks) And I was really happy to see that Indianapolis is going to be hosting one on April 3rd! The last I heard it was up in the […]

I’ve really enjoyed the default background images that have shipped with Vista. I think they’re beautiful, even if some don’t make great backgrounds behind a lot of desktop icons - if that’s the case, shame on you - clean that up!

If you didn’t know, Microsoft commissioned some amateur photographers to capture live-image backgrounds. I […]

Over a year ago I posted about some incomplete MSDN documentation. In continuing my “annual” series on interesting documentation tidbits, I got a kick out of the code example for the Environment.UserDomainName property:
// Sample for the Environment.UserDomainName property
using System;

class Sample
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine();
// […]

See, I’m not crazy - Joel thinks the new Microsoft product packaging sucks too. (And we all know Joel isn’t one to criticize easily! )

I ran across this link today (by accident, actually):
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb510103.aspx
Microsoft is opening up to VSIP partners the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, something the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio has taken advantage of for a while (with Visual Studio 2005’s shell). The part I found most interesting is this:
Q: How much will the Visual Studio Shell […]

Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 have been released for a while now, but I finally got around to purchasing a retail version so I can use them at home (in addition to my MSDN/volume license versions at work). The packaging looks very sleek and “mac-like”. Nevermind that trying to stack them […]

No sooner did I post saying that MSDN docs are incomplete than I remembered that there’s an effort at Microsoft to allow the community to add comments.
Check out the wiki at http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/
I already went through and added the comments I felt were appropriate for HttpListenerResponse.SendChunked and HttpListenerResponse.ContentLength64.
Good for you, MSDN!

Well, incomplete in my opinion anyway.
A co-worker was having a problem with his in-process HTTP server written using the very cool HttpListener class available in .NET 2.0 (on Win2k3 and WinXP SP2 only). In his code he was attempting to enable chunking of the response by setting the HttpListenerResponse.SendChunked property to true. Great! […]

A while back, I posted about VS.NET not accepting non-standard ports for web services when adding them via “Add Web Reference…”. I would like to update that post and say that boy, am I a moron. Of COURSE it can accept non-standard ports (and I wondered how they could leave that simple “feature” […]