Winterdom

I’ve spent some time lately playing around with MSMQ, Authentication and the use of External Certificates. This is an interesting scenario, but one that I found to be documented in relatively unclear terms, with somewhat conflicting information all over the place. Plus, the whole process isn’t very transparent at first....

I’ve been spending lots of quality time with WinDBG and the rest of the Windows Debugging Tools, and ran into something I thought was fun to do. For the sake of keeping it simple, let’s say I have a sample console application that looks like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic;...

After a couple of requests, I’ve created a separate git repository on github for my Molokai color scheme for Vim. Enjoy! </p>

My good friend Carlos ran into a situation while working with one of his clients that seems to be triggering what looks like a bug in BizTalk Server 2010. The specific case came up when changing the Windows User Group associated with a BizTalk Host when that host is already...

Last week I was installing BizTalk Server 2010 on my development Virtual Machine, which previously had 2009 installed. Installation went fine, but when I started the BizTalk Configuration tool, it started hanging for minutes at a time. Strangely enough, the tool let me configure Enterprise Single Sign-On (ENTSSO) without any...

I spent some time yesterday evening tracking down an issue with a custom WCF transport channel. This particular channel would support the IInputChannel channel shape, but with a twist: it would return a custom implementation of System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message instead of one of the built-in WCF implementations. There’s nothing wrong with that...

BetterXml is a Visual Studio 2010 extension I’ve been working on recently in an attempt to improve the experience of the built-in XML editor in VS. Right now it’s only on its early stages, so it doesn’t add much, but I hope to improve it as I find new things...

There are many .NET developers that can’t live without Jetbrain’s R# product. I’m not really one of them. Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of R# and some of the features it offers, it’s just that it could be so much better if it didn’t keep getting in...

This is my first color scheme specifically created for Visual Studio 2010; I’m not likely to port it back to VS2005/2008 but I’m sure it would be possible if someone cared enough about it. I started this color scheme on VS2008 but never completed it. When the Visual Studio 2010...

I only use WinDBG every once in a while, but, when I need it, I really need it and need it now. Kevin Dente pointed out earlier today that apparently, the latest versions of WinDBG was not available as a standalone installer, but only as part of the Windows Driver...