Mike Swanson's Blog
Portable Media Center Products Now Available for Pre-Order
Our cool new Portable Media Center devices are now available for pre-order through Amazon.com. Cool...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/09/2004
.NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Technical Preview
The Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Center has posted a .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/06/2004
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Installation Problem
I was trying to install Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 on my laptop over the holiday, and I...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/06/2004
Safely Installing (and Slipstreaming) Windows XP
This past weekend, I performed the biannual ritual of backing up my home computer, reformatting it,...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/06/2004
DVD ISO for Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 Now Available on MSDN
The DVD ISO file (3.50 GB) for Visual Studio .NET 2005 Enterprise Architect Beta 1 is now available...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/06/2004
MSDN TV: Build a VS.NET-Hosted Tool Window for Reading Blogs
In this episode of MSDN TV, Craig Skibo uses the Visual Studio .NET 2003 automation model to build a...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/02/2004
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 Available for Download
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 and related tools have been posted for download at MSDN Subscriber...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/01/2004
Summary of James Newkirk on Unit Testing
James Newkirk (of NUnit fame) gave a presentation at Tech·Ed Europe about the integration of...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 07/01/2004
Automated Continuous Integration and the Ambient Orb™
Every time someone visits our project team, they always ask what the “light” is for. We explain that...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/29/2004
Automated Continuous Integration and the Ambient Orb™
How often have you or one of your fellow developers checked code into your source control system...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/29/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1
Lots of announcements at Tech·Ed Europe: the new Visual Studio 2005 Express products (including...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/29/2004
Tech·Ed 2004 Presentations Online
If you weren’t able to attend Tech·Ed 2004 this year (and even if you were), you can...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/26/2004
CLR Performance and Garbage Collection
If you’re curious about .NET CLR performance characteristics, you’ll want to add...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/25/2004
My Current Bookshelf
People always ask me what I'm reading, so I figured I'd post a photo of the books that are currently...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/25/2004
Database Unit Testing
We’ve struggled with database unit testing on our NxOpinion project, if only because...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/21/2004
.NET Show: Longhorn Fundamentals
A new episode of The .NET Show is now available. In this episode, Sanjay Shenoy and Glenn Pittaway...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/17/2004
FotoVision
From the capable group at Vertigo Software (the same folks who produced the venerable IBuySpy and...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/17/2004
Monitoring HTTP Traffic
Over the past week or so, I’ve had a few people ask me questions that end up relating to HTTP...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/17/2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 Preview
And I quote: “To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows XP...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/15/2004
New Features in ASP.NET 2.0
MSDN has published a good article on the new services, controls, and features in ASP.NET 2.0. I...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/15/2004
Unit Testing in Visual Studio .NET 2005
Adding my vote to the petition: Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/13/2004
Code Review and Complexity
I’ve been writing software for a little over 25 years now (wow, that seems like a long time),...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/13/2004
Code Review and Complexity
For the past year-and-a-half, I have helped manage the development team responsible for the...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/12/2004
Walkthroughs for Visual Studio 2005 CTP May 2004 Edition
As reported by Rob Caron, we have posted seven walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 Community...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/12/2004
Visual Basic Power Pack
As reported on Robert Green’s blog, some members of the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET team have...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/12/2004
Make Your Own Mini-Galaga
Inspired by the Paper Arcade that I've posted about twice now, I decided to try my hand at creating...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/08/2004
Microsoft Expression: A Free Vector-Based Illustration Tool
As reported by Damir and Tim Sneath, we have released a vector-based illustration tool that we...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/07/2004
Computerworld Article on NxOpinion
The NxOpinion project I’ve been working on was nominated for the 2004 Computerworld Honors...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/07/2004
Mini Pac-Man with Sound
As you may have read in my earlier post about mini-arcade machines, I did end up building the...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/05/2004
Visual Studio Team System Tech·Ed 2004 General Session Demo
If you missed Tech·Ed 2004 (and even if you didn’t), you can now download a video of...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/05/2004
Mini Paper Arcade Machine Cabinets
I’m slightly embarrassed (okay, not really) about how excited I was when I found this site the...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/03/2004
MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System
MSDN TV has just published a new episode that introduces the Visual Studio 2005 (formerly known as...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/03/2004
Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta
The Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta is now available for download. In addition to some of the...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 06/02/2004
Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004
Excellent! Thanks to Rob Caron for letting us know how to fix the external help system in the latest...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/27/2004
Tech·Ed Series Webcasts
While browsing tonight, I ran across some Tech·Ed series webcasts that cover some great...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/27/2004
NxOpinion Mentioned in Steve Ballmer's Keynote at Tech·Ed 2004
The NxOpinion project I’ve been working on for the past year-and-a-half with Sagestone...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/25/2004
Threat Modeling Tool
Looks like we’ve released a Threat Modeling Tool. From the site: “The tool allows users...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/25/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Team System
That darn Chris Sells...always doing my work for me. I was going to collect some juicy tidbits to...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/24/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004 for MSDN Subscribers
For those MSDN Universal (update: ALL) subscribers who aren’t at Tech·Ed 2004 in San...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/24/2004
Book: Coder to Developer
I read Coder to Developer (by Mike Gunderloy) this weekend, and overall, I think it’s a good...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/23/2004
Smart Paster for Visual Studio .NET
Alex Papadimoulis has created a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET called Smart Paster. From his...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/21/2004
Designing Products for Offshore Development
A recent posting at Alan Cooper’s site talks about Designing Products for Offshore...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/21/2004
.NET Show: Longhorn Avalon
There’s a new .NET Show on Longhorn Avalon: In this episode of the .NET Show David Ornstein...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/12/2004
P/Invoke Add-In for Visual Studio .NET 2003
From the must-read-blog of Chris Sells comes word about an add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 that...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/07/2004
DotNet Spider
As many of you know, I’ve been working for quite some time on an application called NxOpinion....
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/06/2004
A Few Whidbey Commands for VS.NET 2003
Gaston Milano didn’t want to wait for Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Whidbey) to use a few handy...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/05/2004
Longhorn M7.2 Bits Now Available on MSDN
A little earlier than I had expected (not that I’m complaining), but the Longhorn M7.2 bits...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/05/2004
Longhorn M7.2 Bits Coming to MSDN Subscribers
According to Chris Sells and his blog entry, MSDN Subscribers will soon be able to download the same...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/05/2004
Lutz Roeder's Reflector 4.0
Oh yeah…I forgot to post this yesterday, but Lutz Roeder recently released a new version of...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/04/2004
Windows Forms 2.0 Screenshots
Thanks to Chris Sells for pointing out that the Windows Forms team has posted some screenshots and...
Author: Michael Swanson Date: 05/04/2004