Win32_ProcessStopTrace Truncation Follow-up

Yesterday I wrote about a bug I discovered when using WMI to monitor process start ups and terminations. The bug is that the ProcessName …

Process Name Truncation bug when using WMI to monitor processes on Windows Server 2008

I’m working on a class that monitors when processes on a machine start up and stop. The easiest way to do this is to use WMI with the …

Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 1 OWA Problem & Fix

This isn’t exactly programming related, but it might trip up other people like it did to us. I recently installed the Update Rollup 1 and …

PDC 2009 – Lots of new stuff to play with!

Microsoft’s annual Professional Developer Conference was this week. While I wasn’t able to attend, there are plenty of opportunities to …

Playing Around with the Web: ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and Silverlight 3

A few of the technologies that are getting lots of attention over the last 6 months are ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and Silverlight 3. Everyone is …

Can YOU do FizzBuzz?

I’ve had a busy last few months. Raising an infant is not an easy task by any means. Add in a project that needs to keep moving forward and …

REST in .NET Revisited

It’s been two months since I first took a look at implementing a RESTful service using the .NET framework. It’s been a busy time personally …

SQL Server 2008 Full Text Indexing or Lucene.Net?

I’m at the point where I need to choose how I’m going to implement the search functionality for our project. My first impulse was to use the …

The Garbage Collector and Unsafe Code Revisited

It’s been almost a month since I first thought about using unsafe C# code. The application is still being developed, but the parts using the …