Connecting the Dots

I've had a number of people ask me for the deck I presented last week, at the TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers conference in Barcelona. The session was titled: Distributed Embedded Systems - The Next Big Developer Opportunity! I've uploaded it to Windows Live...

With less than a week to go before this year's TechEd EMEA Developers conference, you may have started thinking about your schedule. So many sessions to see, so little time! Last week, I posted a complete list of the Windows Embedded track sessions (...

Back in September, I visited the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) in Aachen, Germany. It's quite an interesting place - the EMIC targets the creation of advanced technologies which could be in the market within three to six years. While I was...

  This year, we're introducing a new track for embedded development technologies at TechEd EMEA. As owner of this track, I want to share some details about the track content, along with the thinking behind it. Windows Embedded Track Overview Finding...

On my last trip to Redmond a couple of months ago, I sat down with the some folks from the .NET Micro Framework. We discussed some of the what , where , why and how 's, saw some development kits, and got a peak at what's coming in the 3.0 release. And...

A lot of big changes have taken place in my "world" over the past 6 months, and I'm using this post to formally kick-off a new chapter in my life (and in this blog). From Live to Embedded. Once again, I've taken on a new focus. I'm working on...

Right before the holidays, I saw down with Marc Mercuri to discuss the recently released Tafiti Windows Live Quick Application and how it evolved from one of Marc’s recent incubation projects. The interview just went live this morning on Channel9 ; you...

I'm really excited about participating in the upcoming ReMIX event in Boston. I'm especially fond of Boston, as I lived there during most of the '80s. (I first moved there to attend New England Conservatory as a violin major. I ended up quitting violin...

Windows Live ID Web Authentication By now, I hope you've heard about the recent release of Windows Live ID Web Authentication. If you haven't, here are some links you should check out: dev.live.com , the place for all things developer-related...

I was out of the office last week on vacation (check out our awesome seaplane ride to Victoria !), and a number of things were released that I want to be sure and call out. New release of the Windows Live Contacts control . You can read about the new...

With a recent update to the Silverlight Streaming service, it's now even easier to instantiate a hosted app on a web page: all you need is a single iframe element whose source attribute refers to a server-side invocation URL. You can now write something...

Looks like I missed this announcement while I was away on my recent ReMIX Europe tour (more on that in a future post). I wanted to call it out anyway, just in case you, too, may have missed it. 11.5 terabytes of new data! Including... Lots of new 3D imagery...

Yesterday we released this Channel9 interview with Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe from the Windows Live platform team. Koji and Danny share their views on Internet software development and evolving Windows Live into a platform. This was my first time behind...

Apologies for "going dark". I had to put everything on hold for about a month to deal with the aftermath of the big windstorm we had back on Dec. 14th (you can read about it here on my personal blog, if you're interested), and it's taken me another month...

ISearchQueryHelper is a COM interface that can be used to convert from Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) to a SQL query that can be passed to the OLE DB Provider for Windows Search. (For background, see my previous post: Advanced Query Syntax: What, Where,...

What is Advanced Query Syntax and where is it used? Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) is a syntax that enables end-users to define targeted search queries, and is supported in a number of Microsoft products (for example: Windows Vista, Outlook 2007, and Windows...

In a recent post, I listed a number of methods for embedding manifests in managed assemblies. As I mention in that post , my preferred option is to call the mt.exe tool during a custom post-build step. But I recently found that this doesn't work so well...

I recently learned some new things about the Search APIs in Windows Vista, including some great improvements in the SQL syntax for the OLE DB Provider for Windows Search. (Thank you Chris McConnell - Architect on the Search team - for driving these changes...

I'm leaving tomorrow for Spain, where I'll be presenting a couple of sessions next week at TechEd Europe in Barcelona. Yes I know, TechEd doesn't start until Monday (for the pre-conference activities), but this way I can spend the weekend in Madrid with...

I'm thrilled to report that Jeff Chrisope has finally resumed blogging! Jeff is leading the development efforts for the Vista Bridge samples. What are the Vista Bridge samples? The Vista Bridge samples are a set of samples that ship with the Windows SDK...

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 has been released to the web. You can download it from one of the following links (depending on your OS version): Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows XP (KB917013) Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows XP x64...

As I mentioned in an earlier post ( New UAC Whitepaper Released ), the UAC team recently published a very detailed whitepaper that covers everything you could every want or need to know about UAC from a developer perspective. I typically begin all my...

I recently participated in the first three stops of an EMEA Windows Vista and IE7 Readiness tour, specifically, I presented at events in Cairo, Madrid, and Copenhagen. I then presented a somewhat extended version of the content at an ISV briefing in Reading...

The UAC team just released a new whitepaper last week, with their latest guidance for developers on how to design UAC-compliant applications. Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control Compatibility 91 pages packed...

With our current developer tools, there's no immediately obvious way to embed a manifest in a managed executable. There are actually a number of ways to do this, and it's really not that hard. I found the hard part was putting together all the pieces...