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Monday, March 09, 2009 5:40 PM

My WinISP file server has been retired - please use my SkyDrive site instead

I have heard from several folks over the past couple of weeks who have had trouble downloading the tools and samples that I have posted on my old file server ( http://astebner.sts.winisp.net ). That site has been retired by the group that was hosting
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Friday, August 15, 2008 8:55 AM

Link to pre-order Sara Ford's Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book and help Katrina survivors

Sara Ford posted an item on her blog this week that I want to link to here to hopefully help raise visibility. She has written a book called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips that compiles a collection of items from the Visual Studio tip of the day series
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:01 PM

Added Windows LIVE Web page translator to my blog for quick automatic translations of posts

Earlier this week, a friend of mine let me know about the Windows LIVE Web page translator . I decided to add the translator tool to my blog since it only requires adding a small script block to my main blog page. You can now find the translator tool
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:43 PM

Notes about a couple of possible issues while using the SubInAcl tool

A while back, I posted some instructions for using a tool from the Windows Resource Kit named SubInAcl that can be used to update file, folder and registry permissions. This tool can help fix some types of access denied errors that can be encountered
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:53 AM

Information about the err.exe tool I use to look up error codes when debugging setup issues

When I am attempting to investigate a setup-related failure, I typically end up looking at verbose log files. These log files can contain information about a wide variety of failures, and the failures will typically include some detailed error information
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:17 PM

Game Developers Conference 2008, here we come!

As mentioned in this post on the XNA team blog , the 2008 Game Developers Conference will be happening from February 18-22 in San Francisco, California, USA. I'll be heading to the conference along with several members of the XNA community gaming platform
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:57 PM

Microsoft Tester Center is now live on MSDN

A new portal with information about software testing has been posted this week on MSDN. You can check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/testing/default.aspx . To summarize the launch note on this page: At the Tester Center, our goal is to provide a
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:48 PM

PE header setting that can cause an application to fail to launch on Windows 2000

Over the past couple of weeks, I've heard from a few users who tried to run the .NET Framework cleanup tool on Windows 2000 but were unable to. On these systems, users received errors stating that the program named cleanup_tool.exe could not be run because
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, October 15, 2007 9:17 PM

Narrowing down odd behavior in the Program Compatibility Assistant on Windows Vista

Recently, a fellow Microsoft employee found this blog post that I wrote a while back, and he contacted me with a question regarding some odd behavior he was seeing with the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) on Windows Vista. He found that a specific
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Monday, October 01, 2007 6:28 PM

I have joined the XNA Community Gaming Platform team here at Microsoft

Recently, I started in a new role here at Microsoft - I have moved to the XNA Community Gaming Platform (CGP) team. At a really high level, the XNA CGP team creates a set of tools and libraries to enable rapid development of games for the PC and the Xbox
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Monday, July 23, 2007 5:09 PM

List of Windows locale identifier constants and strings

Recently, I was looking for a list of locales supported by Windows as well as the locale ID values and abbreviations for each of them. Fortunately, a friend pointed me at this location on MSDN: Locale Identifier Constants and Strings - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776260.aspx
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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:54 PM

See you in three weeks....

I wanted to drop a brief note and let folks who read my blog know that I'm going to be on vacation for the next 3 weeks. During that time, I will be completely away from my computer, and I won't be able to read emails sent to me via my blog or moderate
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Monday, June 18, 2007 12:20 PM

Try Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2005 on a virtual hard drive

Recently, I read an article about trial versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 that have been released as virtual hard drive (VHD) images. If you have a program like Virtual PC , you can download and run these VHDs without
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:14 PM

How to prevent the Program Compatibility Assistant from appearing on Windows Vista

While researching the root cause of the issue that can cause a Windows XP SP2 block dialog to appear when trying to install the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1 on Windows Vista (described in more detail in this blog post ), I learned some useful information
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Friday, April 13, 2007 11:24 AM

More specific post categories now available for my blog content

For a while, I've been trying to figure out how to manage the posts on my blog. When I originally established my blog back in 2005, the blog creation wizard asked me to create one or more categories to classify content that I wrote. I didn't have a clear
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