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Is Live Mesh constantly crashing? Try removing Silverlight by Tim Marman

On two of the four machines I’m running Live Mesh on, I found the Mesh Operating Environment (moe.exe) repeatedly crashing. It was completely stable on the other two machines, but on these two machines it would just crash, restart, and crash again a few...

Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content? by Tim Marman

If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files...

We are looking to hire good developers by Tim Marman

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge...

The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight by Tim Marman

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations...

Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team by Tim Marman

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any...

Friday Fun: LOLCODE! on the DLR by Tim Marman

The LOLCAT is mildly amusing, but what I find really amazing is that someone actually took the time to write an implementation LOLCODE for the DLR . Imagine that, instead of writing boring old C# code, you wrote something like this: HAI CAN HAS STDIO...

OpenID gaining momentum by Tim Marman

On the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it will support OpenID in CardSpace , AOL has become the latest major player to support OpenID . "Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI". This is big news. We made the decision to use OpenID as...

An Introduction to OpenID by Tim Marman

OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and...

ADO.NET vNext CTP (Aug 2006) available by Tim Marman

Microsoft has released the first CTP for ADO.NET vNext which implements their vision for an Entity Framework to simplify data access. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports Object Relational Mapping scenarios using ADO.NET Entities, in this build you can...

Nullable Value Types and the Null Coalescing Operator by Tim Marman

Scott recently discovered one of my favorite syntactic niceties in C# 2.0, the Null Coalescing Operator. This operator allows you to return the left side of the statement if it is not null, otherwise return what is on the right. In other words, instead...
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