Winterdom

Scott Woodgate announced today the release of the Release Candidate of Virtual PC 2007. Already downloaded and installed on Vista Ultimate without issues; except for a minor complain during the upgrade about windows explorer having some files locked; which I'll be honest and say I just ignored :-) Seems to...

Tony Bernard, a senior program manager on the BizTalk Team revealed today on the BizTalk/EDI blog that HIPAA support is getting rolled into the new "native" EDI engine in R2; meaning there will  no longer be a separate HIPAA accelerator package for R2. This can only be good news for...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Microsoft had released the latest Intellipoint software for the MS mice that finally supported Vista, and mentioned a few issues with the magnifier support in it. Well, there's another, more annoying problem: Scrolling with the mouse wheel doesn't work correctly. To be honexst...

I got a Nintendo Wii for christmas today. Now, I've always loved gaming and consoles, but for some reason, my last console was a NES (yep, that long ago!). I must admit I was a bit skeptical about the new Wii controller, but I have to admit it is actually...

I've collaborated or contributed to a few community projects over the year (most notably Nant a few years back).  I haven't been active in any big projects recently, with the most recent contribution being the WCF support in QuickCounters, but I've posted a number of useful libraries and utilities over the...

Last week I installed again my cellphone's PC drivers and software on my repaved Vista Laptop. I wasn't too confident it would work, but it was worth trying. The drivers installed right away without issues and Vista recognized the phone as an USB modem right away and configured it on...

One pretty cool feature in WCF Service Contracts are Unmatched Message Handlers, which can catch any call made to an operation with an arbitrary SOAPAction value not already handled explicitly by other operations in the contract. An unmatched message handler is defined by specifying the SOAP Action for the operation...

As I commented a while ago, when I repaved my machine with Vista and Office 2007 I didn't install the whole suite thanks to the whole product keys mess MSDN create;. in particular, I left Project and InfoPath uninstalled until the problem was resolved and I had time to deal...

A while ago I talked a bit about Windows Communication Foundation's IParameterInspector extensibility and how it was affected by One-Way operations on the server and client side. Just so you're aware, the IClientMessageInspector has the same issues as IParameterInspector on the client side; that is, the AfterReceiveReply() method will never...

Scott Colestock broke the news earlier today about his QuickCounters project. QuickCounters is a great library (and associated tools) for instrumenting applications using Windows NT performance counters in a simple way. It not only does the bulk of the work of dealing with the performance counter API (both for deployment...