Writing it is easy, but how do you fix it?

Thoughts while troubleshooting problems Microsoft's Developer products in the field.

GitHub clone falls victim to MAX_PATH

I was cloning a GitHub repo with Visual Studio. It was doing fine but then generated this error....

Date: 03/25/2016

Weird RDP Problem on Vista

So since I am a field based worker here at Microsoft I rely heavily on RDP to access all sorts of...

Date: 08/04/2008

How does VS 2005 Embed Native Manifest Files

With VC 2005 the native libraries such as the CRT, MFC, and ATL can now be installed as Side by Side...

Date: 05/22/2006