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Netflix in Windows Media Center - Double tiles
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over 3 years ago
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If you are seeing two Netflix tiles in Windows Media Center after installing the app, then try going to the tasks strip, selecting the settings tile, then selecting general, then automatic download options. On the page that comes up, select download now...
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Airline food in all its glory
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over 5 years ago
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I'm heading to Australia with Katherine for Christmas, and while looking for ways to make travel a little easier, I stumbled across this site: http://www.airlinemeals.net/indexMeals.html . Photos and commentary. Awesome.
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Why don't I have the <blank> command/menu in Visual Studio 2005/2008?
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over 5 years ago
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VS 2005/2008 have a dialog that shows up on first launch (the first launch dialog if you will) that asks you to choose a collection of settings (which we refer to as a profile) that describe the way you typically use the IDE. Depending on which profile...
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Shiny new bits available
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over 5 years ago
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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available. Go wild. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx , linked from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
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Raymond on helper functions
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over 5 years ago
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Working on the Visual Studio Tool Platform team, we do a lot of work on making VS extensible and providing infrastructure for other teams to build on top of (some of our work is end user feature work as well, it's an interesting mix of things). We have...
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Using VS (instead of WinDbg) to debug application startup
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over 5 years ago
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This is another one of those things that I forget all the time, so I'm posting here as a way of remembering (and because it's incredibly useful if, like me, you find windbg somewhat opaque). http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a329t4ed.aspx ...
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Break on dll load in Visual Studio
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over 5 years ago
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Thanks to Phil Ottowell (I think I relearn this trick every two or three years, posting here so I have a chance to remember it): In VS add a breakpoint and specify the location as, for example {,,compluslm.dll}DllMain if you wanted to break when the...
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Creating Visual C++ wizards
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over 5 years ago
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Project types other than C++ use another wizard mechanism, but if you're extending VC, you probably want to look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730846.aspx . Cheers!
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Are you having issues creating native projects?
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over 5 years ago
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If you've tried to create a smart device Win32 project on Windows Vista or after installing IE7, you might have seen a failure with a message in the status bar saying "project creation failed". It's a known issue, and has been fixed in SP1, but if you...
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CLR addins blog is live
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over 5 years ago
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For those of you building applications with significant plugin architectures, this is definitely a blog to keep your eye on. http://blogs.msdn.com/clraddins/ .
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VS2005 SP1 is out the door!
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over 6 years ago
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Yes folks, it's ready. Get it while it's still hot from the oven. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx
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Rico talks about adding performance data to method signatures
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over 6 years ago
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2006/12/11/avoiding-coding-pitfalls-with-performance-signatures.aspx This is a very interesting article, is it possible that something as simple* as IntelliSense can help you write faster code? Tag method signatures...
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Visual Studio hangs while saving files
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over 6 years ago
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If you are experiencing slowness with saving files in VS2005, it may be related to opening files/projects stored an network locations. In any ASP.Net project, saving (or auto-recover) stalls Visual Studio for around 1 minute. I’ve had to disable...
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Visual Studio on Windows Vista
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over 6 years ago
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I just found this link in email, and thought it would prove handy to you lucky MSDN subscribers who already have Vista: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx Lately I've been spending a lot of time on the upcoming service pack and...
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More VS2005 keybinding information: Build.BuildOnlyProject and Build.BuildSelection
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over 6 years ago
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There are a very large number of commands in Visual Studio 2005, and some of them operate in ways that are subtle, and quick to anger. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=224080 If Build.BuildOnlyProject...
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Is there a way to change VS 2005 bookmark navigation to restrict it to the current document?
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over 6 years ago
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This came up on one of the internal mailing lists. Is there a way to restrict Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P (Previous bookmakr) and Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N (Next bookmark) to the current file in VS2005? Dave Bartolomeo came up with this answer: In the keyboard settings...
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Why doesn't Visual Studio respond to keypresses?
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over 6 years ago
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Has Visual Studio 2005 stopped responding to arrow keys, do shortcut keys not work anymore? Only alphanumeric keys work? This is caused by a bug in the keybindings code, but fortunately there is an easy workaround. From a command prompt, run devenv /resetuserdata...
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Does the convenience of your blogging tool make a difference?
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over 6 years ago
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Here's hoping that it does. I've been a pretty lazy blogger recently, but I've got what I view as a pretty reasonable excuse: I'm getting married. Hopefully things settle down a bit before the wedding and I'm able to get some time to work on a series...
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What to do if VS crashes without showing the Watson dialog
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over 6 years ago
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These steps are modified from instructions sent out by Paul Harrington, a dev lead on the VS Tools Platform team: Unfortunately there are scenarios where a VS crash will NOT result in a Watson dump. Some situations where this can occur: Bug causes...
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Windows Live Local fun...
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over 6 years ago
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http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.637604~-122.133257&style=h&lvl=15&scene=3730001&trfc=1 . Keep up with traffic outside building 41 on Microsoft campus. There are also new maps for the UK and Canada, which is very nice for...
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Are you tired of bloated device binaries?
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over 6 years ago
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Trent Swanson has a great post in the Smart Devices Native C++ MSDN forum on how to get your VS2005 compiled binaries down in size. Those of you who were at MEDC 2005 in Las Vegas last year might have seen Trent hanging out in the hands on labs, he's...
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Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2006 Europe is coming up in June
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over 6 years ago
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Normally I try to avoid putting any sort of marketroid material up here (if you were to look at my post history, you might conclude I generally try to avoid putting much of anything up), but this page http://www.microsoft.com/europe/medc/featured_speakers...
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Debugging "Registration failed with error 0x8973190e"
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over 6 years ago
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I've seen a few reports lately of people having issues when they set the "register output" property on their project to "Yes". Here's my quick debugging guide for solving this problem. Are you deploying all your dependent libraries? Check out depends...
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Device JIT debugging
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over 6 years ago
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It's inconvenient to have a debugger attached to your device all the time, so why not take advantage of JIT debugging? You'll need to locate eDbgJit.exe (should be found at <VSInstallDir>\SmartDevices\Debugger\target\<InstructionSet>\eDbgJit...
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Static analysis on native device projects (sort of...)
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over 6 years ago
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We didn't have time to do a proper implementation of the static analysis tools from Visual Studio Team Suite for device projects, but as this clever customer points out , you can just create a project that contains Win32 configurations, and use that to...
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