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,...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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,...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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....

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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,...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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,...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha 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#....

Author: kevinha Date: 06/13/2005

Weekend update

It's Memorial Day weekend and I'm actively updating my Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition base...

Author: kevinha 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...

Author: kevinha Date: 05/17/2005

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