Shawn Cicoria

I was taking the Windows Azure CmdLets project and getting it into an MSI just to make it easier to deploy in a nice package.  I ran into problems with the Setup project not being able to properly establish the right registry settings for an x64 environment. Even though you

Reading this article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05bully.html?_r=1&hp It’s clear that ensuring you “grab” your online “address” (Facebook page) and establish it as authoritative, before some other clown does is important. Once you have your kids (yourself) online, then you

During hierarchy changes, MDS provides some basic rules for validating hierarchy members against some logic that is defined in the model within the MDS interface or through the Services interface.  Behind the scenes, MDS is generating all sorts of T-SQL to ultimately enforce these rules. There is the ability to

How many of us cut our teeth with a Petzold book on Windows?  Gee, I still have an OS/2 book on Presentation Manager from Mr. Petzold – pre-warp. Well, MS Press has released his latest book in XPS/PDF form, along with the samples up on the MS Press site.

Time to time, we all need this capability.  I keep forgetting what the link/name of this tool is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL http://curl.haxx.se/

Throughout the blogosphere there’s been reports of an issue with ASP.NET that will bring a site to it’s knees – or so, it’s been overblown and reported as such.  Microsoft has released an advisory here that discusses the matter. The workaround for now is something that any