Building managed applications is generally a lot different than building non-managed applications. The problems faced by .NET developers are different than those faced by C++ (or even VB) developers. Since .NET is a garbage-collected language and the development process seems to be generally more intuitive (at least in C#) than... Read more

Since last years TechEd everyone has been hearing about .NET 3.0 and the cool features of LINQ, lambda expressions, and all of the other cool new language features. I don’t know about you, but I was definitely looking forward to them. We were also hearing about WinFx and “Avalon” and... Read more

Windows PowerShell (formerly known as “Monad”) is a Microsoft’s answer to the power and flexibility of the Unix command shells. It should finally complete the Windows management picture by providing a solid command line shell to administer Windows systems. PowerShell is part of Vista, but fortunately for all of us,... Read more

BitLocker™ Drive Encryption BitLocker allows the entire OS volume to be encrypted as well as any other volumes. In order to do this, a 1.5 GB unencrypted system volume is required. BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 or a USB device and USB-capable BIOS and is implemented... Read more

Performance and Scalability Vista makes fewer and larger disk reads for page faults and system cache read-ahead and has removed the 64KB limit. Fewer, faster, and larger disk writes for the system page file and mapped file I/O reduce the page file fragmentation and allow a larger cluster... Read more