Tom Christian's Blog

Important blogs to visit regularly

2008-09-05T10:00:00Z

While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs that I think are really important to keep up with, either by visiting the blog or by subscribing to the RSS feed. Microsoft Update WSUS WSUS issues Security Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Optimization for your IT

2008-09-04T10:00:00Z

I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your IT infrastructure so I thought I could mention it. You can read more about the whole program at http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx There Read More......(read more)

Any other .NET 3.5 SP1 issues?

2008-09-03T10:00:00Z

So I recently posted Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1 , what I wanted to do is see how SP1 was working out for everyone so far. The things I am wondering are: Did you have any problems installing SP1 Have any existing applications run Read More......(read more)

Improving Time-Critical Code written in C

2008-09-02T10:00:33Z

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code. You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal Read More......(read more)

.NET 3.5 SP1 Source released

2008-09-01T10:00:00Z

If you remember my previous blog about Debugging .NET Framework Source Code , well we have now updated the source to include 3.5 SP1. You can check out the announcement here . With this, we are releasing the source to the following files: mscorlib Read More......(read more)

IE8 Beta 2 Update

2008-08-29T10:00:00Z

So I have now been able to install Beta 2 on my machine and I just wanted to give my thoughts on it so far. Installation This was a little bit of a problem for me and the Beta 2 package didn’t uninstall Beta 1 automatically for me on my Vista x64 machine Read More......(read more)

IE8 Beta 2 is now out

2008-08-28T12:57:33Z

In case you haven't seen already, as announced here , IE8 Beta 2 can now be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . Why is this important? Well, Beta 1 was for developers to see the new browser and test their sites with. This beta is Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: Keep hidden files hidden

2008-08-26T10:00:00Z

I have seen a few cases of this so I wanted to let everyone know. If you install the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) on a web server, it will install some configuration files in a directory under your web site called _vti_cnf. This folder Read More......(read more)

SOS Best Practice: Match the SOS version with the process being analyzed

2008-08-25T10:00:00Z

I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that may change. If you copy SOS.dll to another location and then load it out of that directory to troubleshoot dumps, you may start seeing problems. Read More......(read more)

Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1

2008-08-22T10:00:00Z

Just wanted to give a heads up on two issues that we are aware of that were introduced with .NET 3.5 SP1. Issue: The HtmlForm action attribute is now honored when defined in declarative markup. Reason: 3.5 SP1 added a settable Action property to Read More......(read more)

SOS Feature Requests for the Future

2008-08-21T10:00:00Z

I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without any bounds on what it can do, what would you like to see from a troubleshooting tool for .NET? I am thinking about doing something radically different and Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: ASP.NET MSDN Site

2008-08-20T10:00:00Z

Have you checked out the MSDN site for ASP.NET lately? It is full of useful information. You can find it at the ASP.NET Developer Center . My favorite things to check out are the “How Do I” videos. They can be really helpful and Read More......(read more)

Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

2008-08-19T10:00:00Z

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . I have a virtual machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed on it. But it only has about 2 GB of free hard drive space on it. So when I went to install Read More......(read more)

Common Issue: Permission problems when using remote content

2008-08-15T10:00:00Z

We have had a number of customers run into problems when trying to store their ASP.NET Content on a remote machine. Whether that is just a UNC path from the web server or a DFS share. So I wanted to talk about the issues and how to resolve Read More......(read more)

More about the Olympics and NBC

2008-08-14T10:00:00Z

Tim Heuer has a great post where he talks about NBCOlympics.com and how things are going. There is a great video talking about this and Silverlight , Eric Schmidt from Microsoft was interviewed about it.. Feel free to check out the video here Read More......(read more)