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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:53 PM

Fixing your VS 2010 Beta 2 help

If you are experiencing problems with your Beta 2 help, you may need to repair it, especially if you had a prior tech preview installed. The Help 3 team blogs tells you how to fix it: http://blogs.msdn.com/help3team/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-repair-a-help-viewer-help-3-beta-2-installation.aspx
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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:48 PM

Visual Studio Library Experience News

Kim Wolk, the new Product Unit Manager for the online and offline Visual Studio help experience, has started a blog. You can get a good look under the hood and follow the developments in this area here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk Enjoy~ AprilR
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:11 PM

Fun C++ history

Rico Mariani has quite simply become one of my favorite people, professionally and personally. Not long after I first met him, as we started working on the problem of fixing Visual Studio help, about a year ago, I would describe him to people as the "Energizer
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:43 AM

Surface Hardware - Closed System

We get a lot of inquiries about upgrading this or that in the Surface tables. This is not supported, and as our hardware test guru mentioned, everyone should consider the table a closed system - like an XBOX. The software and hardware components are developed
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:31 AM

The Microsoft Surface Team developer contest!

Win a Microsoft Surface!~ WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND HOW….. Create the most innovative, next-generation application experience for Microsoft Surface and enter to win a Microsoft Surface developer unit! Partner companies who want to develop on the Microsoft
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Friday, July 24, 2009 9:47 AM

Quick Poll: Importing Pictures - what do you use/do?

Don't get overly excited, I'm not planning a feature here, but would love any feedback you stop to give here. I consider myself a fairly savvy person, but I'm also impatient and a control-freak about some things. Even though Windows offers a nice photo-import
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:11 AM

One of My Favorite Things

I just noticed myself smiling. This is one of my favorite things - the way I develop plans and proposals. I love doing the research: finding best practices, looking for the latest guidance, reviewing my old text books, reviewing notes from interviewing
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:29 PM

Getting my head around multiple users, multi-touch

I'm nearly one week in to the new team and I've already absorbed a lot - from project issues and product planning, to people and processes. Part of my learning plan on the new team, however, is to also get to know the product itself. This article came
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:10 PM

Moving on again!

Hey there blog readers :) Just a quick post to let you know that I am moving again - this time to Microsoft Surface I have been in our Developer Division for 11 years; I have had a great time working on the development of Microsoft Help 3.0, and unforgettable
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:41 AM

Another cool new VC++ 2010 feature: the next generation of buffer overrun protection

See this cool Channel 9 video with one of my favorite peeps - Louis Lafreniere - VC++ 2010 is shaping up to be quite a release! http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Louis-Lafreniere-Next-Generation-Buffer-Overrun-Protection-gs/
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:15 AM

Cool new C++ feature in Visual Studio 2010!

Check it out this cool feature that my old team has - c++ squiggles! Read Mitchell Slep's post all about it on the VC team blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/06/01/c-gets-squiggles.aspx - April
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Friday, May 22, 2009 1:59 PM

Impact VS10 - Memorial Day Weekend Challenge

The word is out - and so far, customer feedback is extremely positive about the MSDN low-bandwidth view . But what about you? You should have a say, too. So my challenge to you this weekend is to take a moment to check it out if you haven't already and
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:15 PM

Help 3 is getting its Social on

In case you missed it below - the help 3 team is keeping you up to date and providing resources for help 3 through modern means: Twitter - Follow @help3! Join the MVPs on Facebook - there is a Help 3 page and a Help 3 group - there are also groups for
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Monday, May 18, 2009 12:09 PM

Early Parts of Help3 come to life in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1!

Soma has announced the release of the first Beta of the next version of Visual Studio is available to MSDN subscribers. In this release, you will see that product documentation is only available online. While you are using that, do us a favor and try
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:01 PM

What does DITA mean to you?

SO, I realize, it has been over a month since WritersUA, and still, no really helpful posts about what-it-is and how-to-use-it for Help 3.0, but, this is only because there have been a few MORE changes that are being finalized. In just a couple more weeks
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