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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
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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
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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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Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:45 PM

Congratulations to Ian Dixon on his 100th episode of the Media Center Show

Yesterday, Ian Dixon posted his 100th episode of the Media Center Show. You can view a summary transcript and download the episode from this blog post - http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!1909.entry . Ian's guest on this episode
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:30 PM

Final version of Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) v5.0 available for download

A while back, I posted a set of instructions that can be used to suppress application compatibility warning dialogs that can appear when installing and/or running Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista. Those instructions referenced a
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:16 PM

Pre-order available for Using Microsoft Vista Media Center book

Ian Dixon has been working on a book about Windows Vista Media Center with another author (Tony Campbell, the co-author of a book about Windows XP Media Center Edition). This new book, titled Using Microsoft Vista Media Center , is now available for pre-order
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Monday, January 29, 2007 4:03 PM

Final version of the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor available for download

With the Windows Vista public launch right around the corner (including the ability to purchase and download Windows Vista via Windows Marketplace on January 30, 2007 ), I wanted to make people aware of a tool that can be used to evaluate how well you
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Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:33 AM

Information about Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface (MUI)

I recently found some really useful information about multilingual user interface (MUI) features in Windows Vista, and so I wanted to provide a link here for anyone who does multilingual development or manages multilingual systems deployment. You can
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