Winterdom

Quick question: How many of you use the 'View White Space' feature in Visual Studio? In case you're not familiar with it, this feature makes the VS code/text editor display a small dot everywhere there's a space and a small square at the end of the file, thus making it...

As everyone and their mothers already know, Google recently started activating IMAP support on Gmail, and it looks like most people seem pretty excited about the announcement. Now, personally, I seem to get by fairly well just using good old POP3 access, and a few filters on the server and...

A few weeks ago I commented I had found a very promising lead in trying to find out the cause of my performance problems in Windows Vista, in the services/drivers for my simple Microsoft Lifecam VX-6000 webcam. I can now say that indeed disabling this service has caused a dramatic...

If you're writing code in a programming language derived from C (i.e. one of those with pesky curly braces), where do you like putting your braces? Some people like putting the opening brace on a line by itself right after the declaration/statement:   I'm one of those that usually does...

Anyone else having trouble getting the IronRuby source from SVN? Checkout/update fails on my machine with the error: svn: Failed to add directory 'trunk\src\ironruby\Compiler\Ast': object of the same name already exists Any ideas? Update: Yep, repository got screwed up. Looks like it is fixed now, but I had to delete...

Siva Ram asks in a comment on a previous post: "How to Archive/(copy to another location) the Source file as it is , Before the biztalk picks up the file?" I think what he's really asking is how he could archive an exact copy of the original incoming message (possibly...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I did a successful upgrade of my Inspiron 6000 laptop over to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), though sleep/hibernate wasn't working. I spent a some time yesterday trying to fix it, with some partial success. Niels Olson was kind enough...

As promised, here's a sample managed adapter implementing a custom adapter configuration dialog for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. It isn't a fancy sample, just a new version of my /dev/null adapter with a simple, custom dialog. It should be enough, however, to illustrate the basic details needed to get you...

OK, time to post some technical content again :-) If you've used BizTalk server 2004/2006, you've probably seen the configuration dialog where you enter the adapter-specific settings on a send port or receive location. Have you noticed how some adapters simply have a property grid with values, while others have...

Yesterday was the release of Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10). For fun, I decided to try and see what it would mean to update my other laptop, which was running Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) over to the new release. I first started looking around the ubuntu forums, where I read that the...