Last year I was invited to speak at a lot of conferences and code camps but the one that I didn’t get to go to due to scheduling conflicts was CodeStock held in Knoxville, TN.  This year I made sure it was on my schedule because the majority of my Twitterverse / Tribe will be there and I couldn’t stand to see the tweets from a remote location again this year.   CodeStock Sessions I’ll be doing two of my “Back To Basics” sessions this year to help those that want to learn...

If you aren’t doing anything Wednesday, June 24th, around 3:00 EST sign up for the MSDN Webcast called Geek Speak and tune in to see me walk through deploying various WCF bindings such as TCP / MSMQ services in IIS / WAS.  Register Online Here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032417610&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Bring some popcorn or favorite Deep Fried Food, sit back and get your geek own!

DISCLAIMER Doing this is not supported by AT&T and other wireless carriers.  Consult with your carrier before following these instructions.  Tethering iPhone 3G Folks, it is here, and it is a reality!  I am writing this blog article from Windows 7 tethered to my notebook via an iPhone 3g.  The best part of all is you don’t have to jail break the phone to do it.  For the record I am using an AT&T locked, non-hacked, standard iPhone.  Nothing has been done to this phone in anyway whatsoever.  Here is what you need to get this...

For years I’ve had two monitors on my computers.  Working at home every day in and day out has reminded me that two just isn't enough.  I find myself constantly flipping between windows and applications, especially since all the development I do is virtualized.  At work we recently upgraded the majority of our developers with new Core i7 machines with two 22inch LCDs.  Since I already had my own machine I asked if I could just get two of the new LCDs.  A few days later two new Dell 22inch LCDs showed up at my house.  Planning for...

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-33-getting-the-scoop-about-olso-and-m-with-shawn-wildermuth/   In this episode we sat down with Shawn Wildermuth to discuss Olso, M, MGrammar and Quandrant, the new DSL tools for .Net developers.  We covered a lot of questions around the technology and in true Deep Fried form broke down a fairly complex topic for our listeners. 

I just had to restart my VM and went ahead and applied Server 2008 SP2 to it.  When it rebooted I got this error: \ VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-1) NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-156735/bora/lib/disklib/sparse.c:6283 A log file is available in "D:\Virtual Machines\QLDevTools\vmware.log".  A core file is available in "D:\Virtual Machines\QLDevTools\vmware-vmx-7004.dmp".  Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file.  To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support"...

Here’s the problem.  When hosting WCF services using the NetMsmqBinding in IIS7/WAS (Windows Activation Service) the application times out after 20 minutes.  While this isn’t the problem and is the default behavior in IIS it leads to the problem.  When the application is timed out, if a new message arrives in the queue, the WCF service remains idle.  In other words messages will just pile up in the queue (not good!).  After contacting support about this issue I finally got back some information on how to address this issue so I’m posting it in case someone else runs...