Kevin W. Hammond
Developer Evangelist
Complex Types Serialized to the Wrong Namespace by WCF
Have you recently tried to migrate an existing ASMX Web service to Windows Communication Foundation,...
Date: 07/27/2007
Expression Web and Expression Blend to be available to MSDN Premium subscribers!
I just provided some behind-the-scenes commentary over on my blog regarding Somasegar's announcement...
Date: 04/03/2007
My Recommendations for the Ultimate Developer Rig
Interested in what I would focus on if I were building the Ultimate Developer Rig? Well, I just...
Date: 03/17/2007
Do as I say, not as I do - use UniqueID, not PPID
If you've watched my screencast on How to use Windows CardSpace with ASP.NET Forms Authenticaiton,...
Date: 03/06/2007
The Secret of Successful Telemarketing
Take a lesson from Game Stop. Their automated system called me today and left a voice mail. It got...
Date: 11/03/2006
Casa dé Hambone makes an apperance on HanselMinutes
In this week’s edition of HanselMinutes on identity, Scott Hanselman and Carl Franklin chat about...
Date: 11/02/2006
Early SVN patch of DasBlog 1.9.6264 with information card support available
Rather than wait for perfection, I'm making available an SVN patch of my work-to-date for...
Date: 11/02/2006
Information card sign in without validation
I'm testing out a slightly modified information card login process on Casa dé Hambone. Previously, I...
Date: 11/01/2006
Streamlining my Information Card login process
I spent a little more time this afternoon polishing the info card login process on Casa dé Hambone....
Date: 10/31/2006
Do you want authenticated comments in DasBlog?
DasBlog 1.9.6264.0. Authenticated comments. Windows CardSpace. Working. Try it out right now by...
Date: 10/25/2006
Casa dé Hambone is Windows CardSpace-enabled!
Taking inspiration from Kim Cameron and how he CardSpace-enabled WordPress, I did the same with...
Date: 10/24/2006
How to grant ASP.NET access to certificate private keys on Windows Vista
One of the more painful processes on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is granting read permission...
Date: 10/20/2006
Firefox 2 outperforms IE7 because Firefox doesn't do "the right thing"
As I mentioned here, Scoble points out that IE7 renders TechMeme slower than Firefox 2. A true...
Date: 10/20/2006
IE7 vs. Firefox 2 - is IE7 not loading images from cache?
Scoble knocks IE7's performance compared to Firefox 2 and I had to see it to believe it. Given I've...
Date: 10/20/2006
How I created my own Windows CardSpace image
I've been getting my feet wet with Windows CardSpace and my self-issued card. In watching Kim...
Date: 10/20/2006
Windows Vista RC2 upgrade broke domain membership
Turns out the 32-bit Windows Vista RC2 upgrade from RC1 broke my notebook computer's domain...
Date: 10/16/2006
Who uses WSRP to avoid vendor lock in?
I'm really curious to know how many people actually leverage WSRP to run portlets in a variety of...
Date: 10/14/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Object Test Bench Screencast
The Object Test Bench is, in my opinion, one of the lesser known features of Visual Studio 2005. The...
Date: 10/05/2006
Reviving Casa de Hambone
I'm actively working to revive casadehambone.com as my personal blog site. Much debate and internal...
Date: 09/28/2006
Anyone played with a Dell Latitude D620?
I'm looking to buy a new workhorse of a laptop and came across a Dell Latitude D620 that's pretty...
Date: 09/28/2006
Did Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework slip through the cracks?
I've been plagued lately in that whenever I create a new unit test, I have to manually add a...
Date: 09/27/2006
Beware the Virtual PC undo disk and moving between computers
I've been staging a new set of virtual machines for running my Team Foundation Server demos and...
Date: 09/27/2006
Jumping on the Camtasia Studio Bandwagon
I traded some mail over the weekend with Ron Jacobs and Keith Combs about using Camtasia Studio from...
Date: 09/24/2006
Team Foundation Server Build, Unit Testing and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers vs. Software Developers
After a long session with uninstalling the mishmash of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite atop Visual...
Date: 09/23/2006
Team Foundation Server Build, Unit Testing and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition For Software Testers: Continued
In this blog post done earlier this morning, I mentioned that I was having issues getting Team...
Date: 09/23/2006
64-bit Virtual PC 2007 and 64-bit Windows Vista
I've been running the 64-bit version of Windows Vista RC1 (the Ultimate Edition, of course) on my...
Date: 09/23/2006
Team Foundation Server Build, Unit Testing and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers
It's now 3:04am, I have a working build but have been unable to get Team Foundation Server Build to...
Date: 09/23/2006
Team Foundation Server Build and a Permission Issue
It's 2:56am. We had a nastly little storm here earlier this evening (well, yesterday evening at this...
Date: 09/23/2006
Windows Live Writer
It's 2:48am and I'm futzing around with Team Foundation Server build. I came across a permission...
Date: 09/23/2006
Removing all traces of Code Snippets
One of the best tools for increasing productiivty in Visual Studio 2005 is Code Snippets. As someone...
Date: 08/14/2006
New year, new job
It is a new business year here at Microsoft and for the first time in a number of years, I'm...
Date: 08/14/2006
Looking for a Windows SharePoint Services User Administration Web Part
Before I sit down and right one, maybe someone out there can point me to something that's already...
Date: 10/06/2005
CTI Workhop in Milwaukee, WI
On Friday, October 28, 2005, Mark Skoog and I will be at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's...
Date: 09/27/2005
The ebb and flow of blogging
Once again I'm back into working with the product set after a long haitus of planning for our new...
Date: 09/27/2005
Thank you, Mediafour! No more Administrator for XPlay!
XPlay 2.2 from Mediafour, a Windows shell add-in to support the iPod, has recently been released,...
Date: 08/15/2005
Come join the Developer & Platform Evangelism team in the Midwest
We’re looking to hire two individuals in the Midwest (Illiniois, Indiana and Wisconsin) for...
Date: 08/05/2005
Windows Desktop Search & Newsgator make a powerful combination
I use Newsgator as my aggregator so that everything is pulled into Outlook, and I use Windows...
Date: 08/04/2005
Michael Kolt on Test Driven Development with Visual Studio Team System
Miachel Kolt has a nice short piece on leveraging the VSTS IDE to handle method creation for you as...
Date: 08/03/2005
Using Indigo to communicate with Windows Forms applications, Part III
In Part I and Part II of this series, I showed how to implement a service within a Form and how to...
Date: 07/08/2005
Developing Indigo applications that listen on HTTP without Administrator rights
Indigo registers with HTTP.SYS to listen for incoming messages over HTTP. To do so, by default,...
Date: 07/06/2005
Using Indigo to communicate with Windows Forms applications, Part II
In the first part of this series of posts, I showed you how to implement a Windows Form application...
Date: 06/28/2005
DMB, Stand Up and copy protection
Before you read any further, know this … I am firmly against copying and sharing intellectual...
Date: 06/20/2005
Using Indigo to communicate with Windows Forms applications, Part I
Indigo provides a standards-based, interoperable mechanism for exchanging messages in a peer-to-peer...
Date: 06/18/2005
WinFX SDK vs. Indigo/Avalon Redist
You've probably seen the pre-release of Avalong and Indigo Beta 1 RC, and if you downloaded the...
Date: 06/13/2005
I just benefited from Edit & Continue in C#
For those of who you don't yet know, Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 includes Edit & Continue in C#....
Date: 06/13/2005
Weekend update
It's Memorial Day weekend and I'm actively updating my Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition base...
Date: 05/28/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Dev Con is coming to Chicago!
On June 1, Visual Studio 2005 Dev Con will be held in Chicago at the the Rosemont Convention Center...
Date: 05/17/2005