Before I forget to do this I wanted to post about this issue because it cost me a 1/2 day of debugging and I hope to save you this agony. It actually turns out there's a nasty little issue when you use Virtual Server 2005 differencing disks to quickly stand up lab enviorments. In my new role with...

I know what you're thinking, "what ... I thought this blog had been shut down?". Not quite, I will admit that I've been a little less than active though. I'm just coming out of about 2 1/2 months of *very* busy new job startup stuff. I think it's safe to say that I now know...

Recently I was involved in troubleshooting a very interesting problem with a ASMX 1.1 web service that I wanted to share. Being a self-proclaimed SOA geek I was shocked to learn that the character type in .NET was not interoperable. That's right folks, if you build a web service and expose a character...