Director of Random Technologies
Using diagnostic tools to tune and debug Windows software
Recent Posts on Code-o-rama
While I haven't been posting much here, I have been posting pretty regularly over on my main...
Date: 07/23/2007
Renamed my blog
Merry Christmas, etc., etc.. Hope you are all enjoying your XBOX 360's. New year, new blog name. I'm...
Date: 12/29/2006
Microsoft Points
We were having a discussion today about Microsoft Points and that it would be useful to be able to...
Date: 12/08/2006
Dynamic vs. Static Instrumentation
As you know if you are a Visual Studio Team System user, we provide two types of profilers with the...
Date: 11/15/2006
How to Upgrade Software with a Windows Installer Package
One of the things that you often want to do when creating a Windows Installer using WiX is to...
Date: 11/13/2006
Ethereal Network Packet Protocol Analyzer
I just rediscovered the Ethereal network protocol analyzer. I was trying to track down a problem...
Date: 05/07/2006
Refactoring NUnit Unit Tests to VSUnit
If you have been using NUnit to write your unit tests, and you have access to Visual Studio 2005...
Date: 01/03/2006
Test Signing and Instrumentation
Boy, I seem to spend all my time in the deep dark recesses of the CLR. OK, this post is a little bit...
Date: 12/30/2005
Refactoring XmlValidatingReader in .NET 2.0
I seem to have come across this several times in the past week or two, so it's worth making a note....
Date: 12/29/2005
3D Windows XP Screen Saver
I was over at Building 20 on the Microsoft campus the other day and I noticed that all the lab...
Date: 08/28/2005
John's Dvorak Keyboard Self Help Guide
You find yourself facing a seemingly broken logon screen. Every character you type seems to come out...
Date: 08/17/2005
Changing MVID's
Ahhhhh. There's nothing quite like pasting a big chunk of code into your blog. It makes the prose...
Date: 08/13/2005