Bill Li
Think globally, act locally.
Move
My blog has moved to https://www.BaliOnWeb.com. Most of articles are also moved to new site. This is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/29/2009
My PM talk in SJTU
Finally, I delivered my first talk. Kind of excited, you can imagine. :-) PPT can be found @...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/01/2009
Lead Without Authority
As to the complexity level of problems, developers in Microsoft, who deal with coding, are probably...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2009
My AD Fun Experiment
Today I got a mail from lakequincy.com, saying: “Hi Bill, I noticed that you were never able to plug...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2009
P2P Backup System w/o SPOF for Work Group
This is also one of my half-completed ideas years ago. It was recalled recently by two stories:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2009
Memory Leaks Demo & Detection in .NET Application
Memory leaks are always headache of developers. Do .NET developers no longer bother to worry about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2009
Designing Your Own Recent Posts Widget for MSDN Blog
In my MSDN blog, I need “Recent Posts”, but I don’t need archive side bar. After having played with...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/07/2009
Searching For a Number in Shifted Sorted Array within O(log(n)) time
Run into the algorithm problem long time ago. Now post my answer here. A sorted array, say:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/03/2009
My FB app Development Experience
That FB app(https://apps.facebook.com/funnyqa/) is totally out of curiosity about how FB developer...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/30/2009
Principles for Building Secure Database Applications in Action
What I am talking about in this post might be well known to many people(too simple, sometimes...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2009
Happy New Year of the OX!
Hi, my dear friends, Happy New Chinese Year! First of all, a small quiz to you: Can you guess what...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/27/2009
An AD System to Pay Content Generators
Back to not too long ago, I had a half-completed advertising idea related to social shopping. Now I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/20/2009
Words from potential ex-customers
It is only customers who pay dollars as your revenue and enable your read this post comfortably at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/30/2008
My readings - a book in my bag always
< I have to cook this page with a mix of Chinese and English words. Please move your mouse to top...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/23/2008
Multi-threading your UI
Basically, window app UI, either WPF or traditional WinForm, is single threaded, which means only...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2008
Getting Object’s All Properties at Runtime
We often need to know a given object’s all properties at run time, for example, tracking a data...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2008
Programmatically Adding a Column to Your Outlook 2007 Inbox Table View
In my previous post, I mentioned that I will write an article about adding a new column to your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/04/2008
Outlook 2007 Views from Programmers' Perspective
In this post, I’d like to talk about certain basics for Outlook 2007 starter programmers. Outlook...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/02/2008
Building Objects from XML of eBay API with LINQ
In this post, I’d like to illustrate the power of LINQ with code sample. I query the web service...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/21/2008
What Facebook means for the enterprise
It is Facebook’s heyday probably. Every tiny breath of Facebook will attract lots of discussion and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/14/2008
"Search engine cannot make any money"
Some of my best friends complaint that my blog was over technical for them. With customer-oriented...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2008
Adding column to existing table and populate with default value
From time to time, we run into the scenarios of adding new columns to existing table with millions...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/05/2008
Selecting median of two sorted arrays
In this post, I’d like to discuss one interesting algorithm problem which took me quite a while to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2008
How to utilize double check locking in C# correctly
The major benefit of double check locking is to reduce the overhead of acquiring a lock by first...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2008
Design Flaws in Google Docs’ Collaborative Editing ?
Fact I observed this on August 30, 2008. One of highlighted features in Google Docs is its...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/29/2008
Calling SQL Server Stored Procedures with ADO.NET in 5 minutes
A stored procedure is an already written SQL statement that is saved in the database. It can take...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2008
Top10 Reasons Which Make Microsoft So Sucessful
What makes Microsoft so successful? This is the question I thought again and again for a long time....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2008