Notes from a dark corner
Debugging anything that uses clock cycles
Does DEP/NX affect web applications?
A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download,...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/01/2008
Some stunning views of Britain
A non-technical post for a change.The Times Online has an article about "Britain's best kept...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 01/21/2008
Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utilityhttps://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Now...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 01/11/2008
What does an escalation engineer do?
My job role is "escalation engineer". You can hopefully get a flavour of what I do from reading my...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 12/28/2007
time-taken
The "time-taken" field in IIS logs can be useful for figuring out whether your web site is...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 12/28/2007
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Shell released
My colleague Phil brought to my attention yet another release following on from the release of...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/22/2007
1433
This is a number that is going to become very familiar to me over the coming months and probably...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/22/2007
Installing (and uninstalling) .NET Framework 2.0 SP1
An interesting point about the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is that it is both a service pack AND a full...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/20/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions all available as well
This missed my attention yesterday as they are not hosted off the download site. The Express...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/20/2007
.NET Framework 3.5, 3.0 SP1 and 2.0 SP1 available for download
Following the earlier news about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipping, various .NET...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite (90-day Trial) available
A short time ago I blogged about the announcement of the release of Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have shipped!
Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier.Soma has just announced...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit released
Today we have released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training KitThis 123Mb download...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1 OneClick Released
This is a handy new tool mainly aimed at support people like myself. The idea is that if you need to...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/15/2007
When you add a new component, you may need to reapply a service pack
This is a fairly generic principle but it is not always widely known or remembered. But it is one...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/14/2007
New Features of Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
[update 15/11/7 to add JScript syntax checking, JSON-Enabled WCF, MFC Vista Common Controls...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/02/2007
Powerful new admin automation options for IIS7
In version 7 of IIS a powerful new API for administering the server from managed code is exposed in...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/01/2007
Troubleshooting .NET 2.0 performance counters
Sadly, from time to time, the .NET 2.0 performance counters can go a bit wrong. This is a handy...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/23/2007
Wanna job?
The developer support team I belong to needs you. If you have fluent French, good English (written...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/23/2007
Why I blog
Darren Strange, UK Office Product Manager, wrote an interesting post about why he blogs.I started...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/17/2007
LogParser example - start and end time for a NetMon trace
I had some large NetMon files to work with the other day. I wanted to quickly check the start and...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/25/2007
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate
Developers interested in preparing for IIS7 and Orcas will be interested to know that the Release...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/25/2007
Typing rate
Daniel's post about his typing rate piqued my curiosity so I gave it a go. YOUR RESULTS ARE: Number...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/17/2007
Time to be a grumpy old man...
Here goes - I don't like the copy replace dialog in Windows Server 2008.It's too big, there's too...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/14/2007
Vista Performance article
Came across this interesting article about measuring performance on Windows Vista. Contains various...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/11/2007
Version history of the CLR 2.0
[update 13/3/12 – added 5719] [update Oct & Nov 2011 – various additions as I find...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/06/2007
Web Testing Case Study - Hotmail
Came across this interesting case study article about how the Hotmail team used Visual Studio 2005...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/03/2007
LogParser, event logs and Longhorn Server
I am a frequent user of LogParser and when I recently started using Windows Server 2008 beta as my...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/31/2007
Profile of Scott Guthrie in the Microsoft Architecture Journal
I came across this interesting profile of Scott Guthrie. It covers some of the history of how...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/03/2007
Migrating a web site from Orcas Beta1 to Beta2 - "Unrecognized tag prefix or device filter 'asp'."
I ran into a minor problem with an existing web site I have which was running Orcas Beta1 after I...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/01/2007
Summary of fixes available for ASP.NET 2.0
September 2009 - this post is just her for "historical" purposes. For a maintained list of ASP.NET...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/31/2007
Live on Longhorn at last
I've blogged before about how I use Windows Server 2003 x64 as my day to day desktop operating...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/30/2007
Orcas Beta 2 has arrived!
Disgraceful!No, not disgraceful that Orcas Beta 2 has arrived but that I haven't blogged anything...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/27/2007
Silverlight grab bag
I was trying to catch up on what Silverlight is all about the other night and spent some time seeing...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/25/2007
What's wrong with this message?
One of my machines wasn't responding this morning so I switched my switch box to it and saw this:...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/23/2007
Good article on making ASP.NET applications perform well
Came across this article recently (someone pointed it out to me but I can't remember who, sorry). It...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/22/2007
Popfly - interactive web development for the masses
We've just unwrapped Popfly, a very cool web development platform aimed at the consumer web...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/18/2007
The creative application of technology..
Tess told me about this. I think you can figure out what is going on even if, like me, you don't...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/15/2007
Error 1718 when installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
In my job I have to regularly install, uninstall and reinstall various things, including Visual...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/09/2007
New preview release of WinDBG available (6.7.5)
After a long gap from the last release of WinDBG, the debugger team have released an update. Note...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 05/01/2007
Orcas, Longhorn and more
[ update 20:43 27/4/7 - apologies to those reading via RSS if this is a duplicate, but I felt...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 04/27/2007
Enterprise Library 3.0 is released
The Enterprise Library 3.0 has been released. This is a significant update, the first for over a...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 04/11/2007
Unable to 'set next statement' when debugging a 64-bit debuggee in Visual Studio 2005, sometimes
As I've mentioned before, I use Windows Server 2003 x64 as my desktop OS so I am always particularly...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/21/2007
Script debugging not hitting breakpoints in Visual Studio 2005
I had a curious case recently where a customer was unable to get script debugging to work in Visual...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/21/2007
IIS7 Resources
IIS7 Module referenceIIS 7.0 Managed Pipeline ModesWhy don't I get ETW events from ASP.NET in...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/02/2007
Orcas March 2007 CTP available
I've been really busy lately and not found time to do any "proper" blog posts. I've got a few things...
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/28/2007
How to use SPNs when you configure Web applications that are hosted on IIS 6.0
A tricky topic gets a great new article.
Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/06/2007