Stephen Toub
.NET, MSDN Magazine, and other Adventures in Life
March 2005 MSDN Magazine now online!
I was out of town last week, and as a result this announcement is a bit delayed, but better late...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 02/21/2005
February 2005 MSDN Magazine now online!
The February 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 01/11/2005
OutlookContactProvider
Back in May, I wrote an article for the Office Developer Center on MSDN on an idea I had for...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 12/22/2004
January 2005 MSDN Magazine now online!
The January 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. This issue is the first issue of...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 12/14/2004
December 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The December 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 11/16/2004
Recursive iterator performance, part 3
Last week and weekend I discussed performance of iterators in C# 2.0, specifically recursive...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 11/04/2004
Recursive iterator performance, part 2
On Friday I post some observations on the performance of recursive iterators in C#. Since then I've...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/31/2004
Recursive iterator performance
Just got back from a very successful week at WinDev in Boston. Not only was the conference good, but...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/29/2004
TechNet Magazine
All of the feature articles from the premiere issue of TechNet Magazine are now online! The rest of...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/27/2004
WinDev Coding Questions
I'm up at WinDev in Boston this week (I know, I know, it's really Quincy), and last night MSDN had...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/27/2004
Red vs Blue
Go Sox!!!
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/20/2004
November 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The November 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/19/2004
StringCollectionEditor
Anton asked about design-time editing for the Words property (a StringCollection) of my...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/12/2004
Media Player Plug-ins
I wrote a short article for MSDN which demonstrates how easy it is to write fun Audio DSP plug-ins...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 10/11/2004
An ASP.NET Framework for Human Interactive Proofs
An article I recently wrote for MSDN online just went live:An ASP.NET Framework for Human...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 09/23/2004
October 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The October 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 09/14/2004
Music Videos
Tamara spent a day in Long Island a month or so ago filming a music video for a group called...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 09/11/2004
Missing line
I received my October 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine today... woo hoo! I of course flipped to .NET...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 08/31/2004
September 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The September 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 08/17/2004
Nicknames
My folks emailed me this morning questioning the nickname given to me by Kent, so I felt it deserved...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 07/22/2004
August 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The August 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 07/20/2004
"With Honors" Essay Editing
Some good college friends of mine have started a cool new company, With Honors, that specializes in...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 07/12/2004
MSDN Magazine on the go...
Scott found a cool .chm reader for the Pocket PC written by Peter Tewkesbury. Since all of the...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 06/17/2004
July 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The July 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 06/16/2004
Resetting Trace
The ASP.NET tracing system has a configurable requestLimit that stops the tracing system from...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 06/07/2004
TechNet Magazine!!
Today at TechNet we announced a new magazine that will be available this fall, TechNet Magazine: The...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/24/2004
Media Center and Outlook
As I mentioned in my last post, I recently wrote an article for MSDN detailing an approach for...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/23/2004
Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2003
I have been playing around with this concept for quite a while and finally decided to put it down in...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/22/2004
June 2004 MSDN Magazine now online!
The June 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/18/2004
Programmatically Enabling a Switch
While testing a project I was working on today, I wanted to change the level of a Switch used in one...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/14/2004
May 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine now online!
The May 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 04/21/2004
Fun with AudioVideoPlayback
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I keep a laundry list of personal coding projects I want to work on...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 04/16/2004
Saving Form Settings
Like many developers at Microsoft, I spend a good chunk of my free time writing tools, or fun little...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/31/2004
April '04 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The April 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online. You can read it...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/23/2004
Google before asking questions
Found this on the web this morning... it's almost scary how true this really is. I almost never ask...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/18/2004
ASP.NET Web services test page
Did you know it's possible to customize the test page auto-generated for Web services in ASP.NET?...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/10/2004
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Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/08/2004
Mona Lisa Smiling at me
I had an exciting morning today... I ordered a DVD. Why is that noteworthy? Because when I watch the...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/05/2004
Exception filters and C#
We shipped our April 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine this week, and I've received a few reader's emails...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/05/2004
MSDN Universal subscribers: get MSDN Magazine for free!
MSDN Universal subscribers: did you know that with your subscription you can get a free subscription...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/05/2004
I'm back!
I started this blog a year ago with very good intentions. But somehow I got sidetracked and I...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 03/04/2004
Downloadable MSDN Magazine
As you probably know, MSDN Magazine is available online as well as in print form. In addition, you...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/27/2003
TraceData
I finally got around to posting a sample for the approach to programmaticly accessing the ASP.NET...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/27/2003
.NET Passport PAG
A new PAG ("Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for .NET Passport Integration with Existing...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/24/2003
Googling Me
Amazing. After only a week in blogspace, the results from searching for myself in Google have...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/24/2003
"GOTO Death & Slaughter"
We recently had an internal discussion concerning the use of GOTO's in code and its implications. I...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/22/2003
Accessing ASP.NET Trace Data
A few people have asked me if it is possible to programmatically access the data from the ASP.NET...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/21/2003
Pirates of Penzance
Tamara's current production, The Pirates of Penzance, just got a fabulous review:...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/16/2003
.NET Remoting
My latest article was just published in the June '03 edition of MSDN Magazine. You can read it...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/16/2003
In the Beginning...
So a bunch of friends and coworkers have been at me for quite some time now to start a "blog". At...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 05/16/2003