Welcome to Certifiable, your exam prep headquarters. Here you'll find questions about some of the tricky areas that are fair game for the certification exams. Following the questions, you'll find the correct answers and explanatory text. We change...
Since revealing its plans for Hailstorm, the first phase of a strategy shift from shrink-wrapped software to .NET-based services, Microsoft has found itself at the center of a steadily brewing controversy. Software developers who have historically...
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet," writes William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Microsoft certainly seems to agree with the Bard. In a surprise move, the company decided to forego its new ...
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 1.5 is already installed on Windows 2000 and Windows 98 computers—it's part of the core OS—but it isn't a native part of Windows NT 4.0 or Win95. If you want to run WMI scripts on an NT 4.0 or Win95 system...
One of the Windows 2000 features that I've found most useful is the capability to change from dynamic to static IP addressing on a workstation without needing to reboot. The ability to execute the change from within a script would make this new...
Welcome to the inaugural issue of In the Spotlight! Once each month, I'll "spotlight" a technology and/or technology issue—exploring the features and concerns, if any. I'll cover some of the more interesting and important issues and technologies...
Welcome to the .NET Developer Toolkit! My name is Rob Howard, and I'm a program manager on the .NET Frameworks team at Microsoft. Specifically, I work on the ASP.NET feature of the .NET Framework, but I won't limit this column to discussions of...