I tend to shy away from Whidbey only discussions here, but I've been asked a couple times how to get a combobox to show a treeview - so I thought I'd share with y'all what I whipped up in 20min. The interesting thing here is what you can do with a ToolStripDropDown...

Its a little scary opening up my blog posting UI while sitting at our annual Microsoft Research "Techfest" that is for "Blue Badge" employees only. But hey, I figure I can talk about stuff that ABC news gets to cover . Yes, I've seen the prototype bear...

The Feb CTP just got released today. Its the Express SKU. This is a build from a source branch that we give to internal partner teams, so it should be pretty good quality. You can find it here . Again, this is express so it should be a quick install and...

I’m doing a webcast tomorrow called “Programming the Visio Development Platform” if you want to check it out. You can register for it at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg...

I actually have a hobby that doesn't involve computers...at least that's what I thought. First off, I'm still categorized as an R/C beginner. My first plane was a quick RTF (ready to fly) plane. I then went on to e-bay and bought an electric helicopter...

Hi all, My old boss Katherine wants me to give a shoutout to the community about two new cool positions at MSDN /TechNet. They need a few people who fit the job description as regular site managers, and then they also need a site manager manager. They...

I know this may be a basic topic for many, but always one worth bringing up. Macro code security in Microsoft Office System 2003 gives you the ability to identify documents with VBA code and make better decisions around whether to trust that code. For...

NGEN images are not guaranteed to be used by the runtime. There’s a tradeoff with NGen that is always being evaluated where robustness of images is balanced against better performance when images are used. At one extreme, NGEN images are very robust and...

As I'm sure some of you have already noticed, it is proving a bit difficult to install .NET Framework hotfixes (such as the recently released MS05-004 ASP.NET hotfix ) on Windows XP Embedded devices. On my previous team, two of the setup packages I worked...

As we wind down on Beta 3 the data mining team has been getting some good exposure. We’ve had several customers in our SQL Labs visiting primarily for data mining solutions. One had implemented a web-based cross sales application using Decision Trees...

So do you want a Microsoft Word 2003 rendition instead of the HTML rendition of my previous post? Why not? A mind can be downloaded to a variety of formats, HTML, Word, PDF, PS, RTF, flat, CSV, Excel, Visio, etc. Accordingly to the Office 2003 XML Reference...

Update: The transcript for this chat is available here . Here's a chat you're not going to want to miss. It looks like Eric Rudder will be there to answer some questions. Here are the details: What's New in Whidbey? Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, code...