Hi,
Let's just get to business!
Eprogrammer is MVP, a Microsoft Valued Professional. And what for? Just for helping people on the internet, you can find him often at news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetserver.iis . He runs a business, is self-employed and always looks for the edge of technology on C#, .NET C++ and ASP.NET.
Ok, who is Eprogrammer really? Are you really interested? In my free-time, I love to play and hunting rabbits with my falcon 'a gray parrot' and when I'm not free, I love to speak with Russian people about the bible. To be honest now, I did not say everything according to truth, if you look for 'chippy' in my private photocollection, you'll discover, that grey parrots do not really love to eat rabbits :)
What can you expect in my web logs? I would like to write like Kenny Kerr, my favorite weblogger. He's doing a lot of new and verstatile things that are really usefull to us all. http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/
Currently, I run two projects, one for Leones, a MMC 3.0 add-in project. I never expected to write a full MMC application, but really believe me, in just a day or two, you have your own Active Directory Users and Computers snapin! (Now I'm exaggerating again, sorry!)
This MMC experience, is a very usefull, but suddenly, when you think you got it all, you'll find, it won't work as an extension snap-in for the Active Directory Users and Computers snapin. Why? Because they use a slightly other interface which derives for instance from another interface (for instance) IShellExtInit. MS wanted us, third party developers, to create our own extensions for the mentioned MMC app. The MSDN documentation really tells you all you should know, I repeat: they tell you, they write about it, but the samples lack recent code using ATL or WTL and using .NET, you'll find yourself writing interop declares for the biggest part of the programming time, so I decided to stick to C++ for the moment. I do not complain :), this makes my job a unique one, for the moment.
That's why I use C++ for my active directory extension snapins, for adccure.nl and .NET 2.0 framework, for Leones, the MMC SDK 3.0 should do it.
I'll post back later to let you know my findings.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention, reading blogs are for free :<, I share my secrets with you, but only if my sponsor pays enough :)