After some very frustrating experiences with Visual Studio 2008 hanging inexplicably, I discovered that the problem was the technical preview of Microsoft Office 2010 I had installed.  The fix was easy: http://blog.hinshelwood.com/archive/2009/07/19/office-2010-gotcha-2-visual-studio-2008-locks.aspx

One of my WordPress-based sites (http://crowdspace.net) was not working when I tried to publish posts containing images from Windows Live Writer.  I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I was able to fix the problem by making a small change to the database. The Error Message I enabled Failed Request Tracing in IIS7 to [...]

Content from Microsoft’s {You Shape} It campaign has been rolled up into the ebook Developers Developers Developers Developers.  Many of the contributors are Microsoft MVPs and/ Microsoft Regional Directors. It’s a free download and released under a Creative Commons license so share share share! http://devshaped.com/book http://devshaped.com/files/developersdevelopers.pdf In the book: Working with Brownfield Code by Donald [...]