Beth is complaining about Lincoln using a Peter Gabriel song to sell SUVs and recalls her frustration at hearing the Smiths' How soon is now? being used to sell Mazdas. All I can say is that I feel the pain. Try HP using The Cure's Pictures of You to...

Hey, given the great feedback we got from Josh's new project questions, we're going to pose another question to you: How do you want deployment to work in VC++ for Devices? As those of you who have gotten your hands on early versions have no doubt...

As most of you probably know, companies like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have created their own Internet Explorer toolbars with added functionality. Besides integrated search, one of the most used features is blocking pop-ups, an overdue feature for Internet...

My wife and I are looking to get our first Berner (Oliver) a brother. We’ve recently received pictures of the three dogs we have to choose from. We’ll obviously get to meet them first next week, but based on these pictures who would you choose...

John Kerry is spamming Omar's blog : Referreral spam from John Kerry? LOL.

[Ron] One of the major new features in the area of code generation for the upcoming Whidbey release of VC++ is our new floating point code generation model. One of the members of my team, Eric Fleegal, has written a nice white paper about this feature...

J. Daniel Smith in the comments to my last post writes: “ Why doesn't the new Sound control support WMA files? (Yes, I know it's just a wrapper around the Win32 control...) But still, this "mixed messaging" from Microsoft is a bit annoying at...

My first lead at Microsoft, from way back in the summer of 2001 when I was an intern, was featured on MSDN TV last week giving a basic introduction to CAS, and discussing how it applys to managed code developers. You can find the show here .

Like most technical writers, getting my feature team to review my help topics for technical accuracy is like keeping an Iditarod team from making a dash for the nearest McDonalds or garbage dump in the middle of a blinding blizzard. Technical contributors...

Other Tools Options So far this post covered a lot of customizations that you don’t find in the tools->options dialog. Most of these settings, and more, are stored in the current user registry location for Visual Studio. If you open regedit...

I've got an open position I'm trying to fill for a reasonably experienced developer - so what better way to let people know than through my blog! Here's a snippet describing what I'm looking for: The Speech SDK team is looking for an experienced...

A lot of people don’t know that the DOCTYPE switch in your web page can have a profound impact on how your page layout works. For example, the CSS Box Model will look different in WinIE 6 depending on the DOCTYPE switch. If you are doing web design...