I’ve talked to many developers who have recently started doing some SharePoint programming and have gotten hooked. In fact, they like SharePoint development so much, especially the event receivers, that these developers are starting to think about u ...[Read More]

Are you tired of having to bring up a Remote Desktop to your SharePoint server just to run an stsadm command? I sure was. Here’s a very simple way to remotely execute stsadm commands against any SharePoint server to which you have a LAN connection. ...[Read More]

I do a lot of server programming. I frequently need to be able to run some code as a different user than the currently logged-in user. Unfortunately, the .Net Framework does not make this particularly easy. Sure, there is the WindowsIdentity class a ...[Read More]

The Windows 7 RTM along with support and technical content is now available for download to MSDN subscribers. MSDN Windows 7 Downloads Technorati Tags: Windows 7,MSDN ...[Read More]

A few months ago our Team Foundation Server (TFS) box failed and we lost some data. I thought our new TFS box was headed for the same end the other day when I pulled up a history list for a Visual Studio project and saw that there were not nearly as ...[Read More]

The latest update to the Sun Microsystems’ (Sun) Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Windows comes with a trial-ware Internet backup service called “Carbonite Online Backup”. Unsuspecting users who install the Java update will also be installing pote ...[Read More]

A colleague of mine recently posed an interesting question: Why would you ever want to specifically target an assembly compilation to x86 or x64? Wouldn’t you always want to use the AnyCPU option? What are the options? Here’s a bit of background o ...[Read More]