Microsoft File Transfer Manager is the tool used by Microsoft to download MSDN Subscription files. It is a nice little tool and very handy when getting rather large updates for Microsoft products. Sometimes though the download item get stuck in the queue and the Transfer Manager keeps trying... [More]

There is a controversy in the software development industry about quality. To many people, quality is expensive, and lower quality means cheaper development which means financial savings. This very simplistic thinking leads to spending less on qualified developers, less solid testing and fixes ... [More]

While installing VS2008 SP1 on a 8GB VMWare machine today I encountered the need to increase the virtual hard drive size - didn't have enough space for the SP1 setup to run. Luckily, VMWare has vmware-vdiskmanager utility which I used and very much followed the Increase your Virtual m... [More]

Recent article by Mike Gunderloy on SearchVB.com - VB developers: Second class no more Image credit - jillypax at Zazzle.com

This post by Paul Mooney is just hilarious: You know you're living in 2005 when: 1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. 4.... [More]

As found via Brad Abrams there is new great book is coming out - Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina dedicated specifically to Design Guidelines of Frameworks with .NET 2.0. I think the book will be good ... [More]

Do I make mistakes? Yes I do! For a couple of years now the most embarrassing thing for our product web site SubMain.com was its design. When we were launching our first product two years ago I only had couple of nights to put together a web site. Mistake #1 - while we have put time for the ... [More]

Found this last month but only now found time to blog about it. While browsing back in June I stumbled upon Victor Shatochin's blog - fella who is based in my hometown - Kharkov, Ukraine. The blog is mostly in Russian, some Ukrainian and some English. The post on Victor's blog I... [More]

Doug Lawty posted a very useful tip: don't press Alt-PrtScn to get a clipboard copy of the content of a Message Box (as a image), instead use simply Ctrl-C (just text)! Couldn't resist to share this with you - it came as a complete surprise to me and I’m considering myself fai... [More]