Adam Nathan's Old Blog

Yesterday was my 6-year anniversary at Microsoft, so I guess I was at the same orientation as Heather ! Jay and others have mentioned the Microsoft tradition of celebrating our “anniversaries” by bringing in a pound of candy for each year we’ve been...

Someone just pointed out to me that my Interop book is now available in PDF format at Amazon. I had no idea! I haven't made the leap to e-books yet, but I think having full text search would be very handy in this case...

Last month I talked about tools that create XAML for you, so you don't have to write it by hand. I missed one: Mobiform 's Aurora XAML Designer for WinFX. This tool (which appears to be an Avalon app itself) currently has a free beta that works with Avalon...

Chris Han from the Avalon Team just XAMLshared an example of video-filled text : Check it out!

On Monday I asked for guesses on the size of the Internet Hearts source base , and the highest (public) one was 45,000 lines of code. The answer: approximately 112,000 lines of code! 51,000 are client-specific, 35,000 are server-specific, and 26,000 are...

In my latest round of struggling to get Community Server to behave the way I'd like it to, I've added the month-by-month archive links on the right. So you can now easily navigate my posts dating all the way back to April 2003. (Hmmm... 2004 was a quiet...

TechEd made me gain about 5 pounds, and my bag somehow gained 20 pounds. (And I didn't get a single piece of swag from the Product Pavilion, I swear.) But I'm back in Redmond after a 24-hour journey from Orlando to Seattle, due to delays at Chicago O...

Here's some news that isn't from TechEd, but rather from Soma's blog . "Acrylic" has just been announced and made available as a downloadable beta. It's the next version of Creature House Expression 3 , a vector-based illustration tool for professional...

Yesterday at TechEd, someone asked me if we had one-page documents that explained: What's new in SQL Server 2005? What's new in Visual Studio 2005? What's new in the .NET Framework 2.0? In other words, what are the features that will make...

There seem to be a lot of these being given away this year! As one example, be sure to visit the Microsoft Webcasts group in the Product Pavilion for your chance to win one. On the flight to Orlando, I got to use one for the first time: The Creative...

I'm groaning at the IDispatch reference, but you have to check this out at http://finalizer.net . It's a BattleBot powered by the .NET Compact Framework that made it's debut at this morning's TechEd keynote! BattleBots... Samantha Bee... am I at a Microsoft...

This morning Steve Ballmer gave his keynote address to 11,000 TechEd attendees (which you'll be able to watch here shortly ). We saw lots of great things: "Direct Mobile Messaging" - also known by its more catchy name of "Exchange Server 2003 Service...

Has this happened to you? You've built and run your Visual C++ solution, and without touching a thing you still get a dialog like the following whenever you re-launch it: Out of date??? How can that be? I ran into this for two separate reasons when...

A reader who goes by the name of "DarkByte" asked me: Does XAMLShare have a webservice to query for submitted content? Great idea! I had not enabled it, but I have now: http://www.xamlshare.com/editservice.asmx This is the default FlexWiki Web...

Breaking changes are a fact of life when living on the bleeding edge of betas and CTPs, especially for technologies like Avalon and Indigo which haven't officially shipped yet. There have been lots of changes between the March CTP and Beta 1 RC, and there...