Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

This month’s security bulletin becomes a lot more confusing. It was pretty confusing already, but the extra detail of .NET Framework 3.0 is...

I have intended to on occasions, never got round to it. It’s been so long that Blogger have changed completely over to Google logins and my ...

Microsoft take their ball away .

If they change, they can’t identify you

My friend Colin Mackay , who I know from CodeProject , sent me a message last week to tell me that he was attending this weekend’s Vista and...

Dare Obasanjo has noticed a comment of mine on Jensen Harris’s post announcing Microsoft’s licensing of the concept of the Office 2007 ‘R...

The next version of the Compact Framework will be called: .NET Compact Framework 3.5 . Yeah. Great way to confuse people.

Saw this strip of ads on a site: Test advert got onto a real site, perhaps? I know the site owner has only just added AdWords to their site,...

Saw this strip of ads on a site: Test advert got onto a real site, perhaps? I know the site owner has only just added AdWords to their site,...

Neil Cowburn noted that the Smart Device Framework 2.0 installer doesn’t work properly on Windows Vista . This is the comment I couldn’t pos...

As soon as I heard that Microsoft were changing the name WinFX, an umbrella name for Avalon, Indigo – oh, excuse me, Windows Presentation Fo...

Dana Epp posted a movie from Mythbusters cracking a fingerprint ‘lock’. Not exactly secure. Watch now . (YouTube, may get taken down when s...

Anyone reading this blog from Windows Vista (Pre-RC1 build 5536 or RC1 build 5600) might notice a slight difference in appearance between Vi...

Looks like my compatibility problems are solved: in the radical way, by completely breaking Setup on all three applications. Setup now cra...

Example surprise . I’m not at all surprised this is possible. In order to decrypt data, you need two things: the encrypted data, and the dec...

(Note for non-Brits reading this [if any]: in the UK we are required, if we want to watch broadcast television, to pay a licence fee of £131...

We had a strange issue with Meteor Server about two years back. Under stress, the Mem Size column (working set size, in fact) in Task Manage...

Sometimes, to get the best performance from some code, you have to change the architecture. Our application server product, Meteor Server is...

You must call Dispose. If an object implements the IDisposable pattern, or otherwise offers a Dispose or Close method, you must call it. N...

My job involves a fair amount of C++ development for Pocket PCs and other Windows CE-based devices. I’ve been doing this for five years as o...