I Can’t Promise To Answer All Of Your Prayers, But I Promise To Always Listen

I didn’t know that I’d been nominated, but apparently I was canonized yesterday as the Patron Saint of Smart Client Applications. I promise to be a...

Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice

some words of advice for folks about to interview for the first time...

Jason Olson’s Microsoft Interview Advice

Jason Olson recently interviewed for an SDE/T position (Software Development Engineer in Test) at Microsoft and although he didn’t get it, he...

20 is the new 30

kids coming home from college to live with their parents again’...

Creating 2-D and 3-D Dynamic Animations in “Avalon

“Karsten shows how to build an animated version of Task Manager using the 2-D animation infrastructure provided by Avalon, then moving into the...

JasonW on ClickOnce Permission Elevations

some thoughts about ClickOnce and user-managed permission evaluationThoughts...

Telling us we’re Bad and Ugly is Good!

Rod Paddock sat down to use Avalon in a real way and then kept notes. Some of those notes said good things about Avalon Some of them said not so...

The Reason For Code Access Security

I had a question in my inbox the other day that went something like this: “Since programming within the partial trust sandbox I get by default when...