Microsoft announced a few days ago that Windows Xp Service Pack 3 will be released on April 29, 2008. Yesterday, everybody was waiting for the final product to become available on Windows Update.
In a forum post, Chris Keroack told that they’ve found some problems in the final version and because of this they will delay [...]

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I was curios how expensive is a cross domain operation so I have made a test.
The test procedure is simple. Perform a number of cross-domain and non cross-domain operations (get the value of NextNumber() from same domain and from another domain) and measure the time elapsed. For each value I have runned the application 3 [...]

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Today I found out that Google Docs is available offline.
For those who don’t know what this service is: Google Docs is a free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
In order to use it offline you [...]

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Reflection is the process by which a computer program can observe and modify its own structure and behavior. The programming paradigm driven by reflection is called reflective programming. [Wikipedia]
Working a few days ago on a plugin architecture on .NET Framework I’ve found something very interesting. The method System.Reflection.EventInfo.AddEventHandler does late-binding. You’ll probably say “so what?”. [...]

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Surfing on Microsoft’s website a few days ago, I’ve found a link called “Got 15 minutes? Learn a new task” (yeah, I have 15 minutes :-) ). Followed the link and discovered “How Do I?”.
“How Do I?” is a section of MSDN on which video tutorials are posted. These tutorials are for programmers and show [...]

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