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As promised , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. Download now . Updates Hex Hex had a few rough edges that I cleaned up. Thanks to fun with MultiDataTrigger, I removed the need for a special "HexButton". I also cleaned up a bunch of stuff that I must...

Never underestimate the value of a catchy title. This entry is about Longhorn, though—specifically the work we are doing in People and Groups to bridge contact lists--not only between application, but between devices. My good friend Jeremy...

I love running the highest performance, most stable OS Microsoft has ever produced on my desktop. The problem: a lot of the features that make a sense for a server OS, make little sense for a desktop. An example is the Display Shutdown Event Tracker...

April 19-25 is TV-Turnoff Week. (CNN has an article .) When I first moved out to Seattle in the summer of 2002, I spent a month in Microsoft-provided temp housing. I'd come home from work and spend 2 hours vegging in front of the TV. When I got my...

In general, I avoid political discussion like the plague on my work blog, but since Microsoft has already taken a stand on this, I thought I’d throw my hat in. <Rant Disclaimer=”The following rant is solely my opinion and not that of my employer.”>...

Kidding... Adobe makes some amazing Windows applications, but am I the only one who would like web-hosted PDFs to open outside the browser? After a quick search, I found the simple solution (for v6.0 at least) Open Adobe (Acrobat) Reader from the start...

Microsoft is serious about spam, but one can always use more help. I’ve been using Sneakemail since my senior year of college. It works great. Create an account on sneakemail. When a web site asks for your email address instead of giving them your...

I downloaded the March CTP off of MS.com to make sure I was running exactly what our customers got. I was surprised to see that the package was an ISO. Instead of burning the ISO to CD, I remembered a little tool that I used in college: Daemon Tools ...

As you may already know, there aren't really any changes to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in the January CTP . I have noticed some updates to the VS extensions for Visual Studio , so you may want to update your bits anyway. I received a bunch...

Do you live in or around London? Are you interested in Avalon? Have you been playing with the November CTP? Would you like to meet a Program Manager on the Avalon team? Ask questions, give feedback, make suggestions? I’m going to be doing some travel...

Our friends in Media Player have done a fine job with Media Player 9. One slight problem: I think they got their first use experience a little wrong. Usually when I launch Media Player, I want to listen to my music, not watch a trailer for Scooby Doo...

We're not nearly as entertaining as Don and Chris , but Robby and I are in another video on Channel 9 (our last one was on MSDN TV ). This time we talk about our experiences with Windows programming, the web and the power/flexibility/extensibility of...

In case you haven't heard , we've just released the Avalon and Indigo Beta1 Release Candidate . To inspire you all to upgrade from the March CTP (or maybe to install for the first time) I've updated my TreeView sample . So what's new? Well, I've...

I’ve been happily crankin’ along with IE 7 Beta2 for a while now. I just upgraded to IE7 Beta3 . Wow! Demonstrably faster. I just feels tight and crisp. Go download...quick...now... FYI: make sure you un-install any previous IE7 Betas before you...

I promised you I'd get these in "this week". I guess, depending on how you split the weeks, I delivered. Most of the details are in the post on the Community Site for WPF . DatePicker/MonthCalendar were implemented by our friends in the Advanced...

July CTP Bag-O-Tricks Wow! People seem to be enjoying it...or at least downloading it. Let me know what you think. (I don't know what to do about adding more samples, though. What comes after eleventy ?) Charles is Having Fun Animated drawing brushed...

Having a blast in Boston. The city is beautiful. Coolest things I’ve seen today: Exchange 2007 . Scary hot. You must go learn about it now. Holy cow. If you’re at TechEd, my talk is tomorrow at 1pm. Dev338. 157ABC. The slides are now on MSTechEd (you...

Mr. Sells does a great job of listing the great features of Vista . (Including some things I don't use enough.) I had fun bringing my laptop back to Iowa for Christmas Thanksgiving. Everyone I showed just sayed said "wow". I'm proud to have shipped code...

I think it was Paul Stovell's article on Validation in WPF that got me started. The article is amazing and has inspired a lot of my thoughts on what to do with binding in v-next. Paul mentioned CSLA . I wasn't familiar. I dug in. Found Rockford Lhotka...

In celebration of the availability of the January CTP of VS "Orcas" , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. (Actually, it's because I'm stuck at home, but I wanted an excuse to mention the VS CTP.) Download here: http://j832.com/bagotricks/ Have fun! New: Zap...

I've been sitting on this demo a few weeks, so I'm excited to finally share the code publicly. Go down the the WinFX Runtime Components - November CTP The latest release includes a simple, static event: CompositionTarget.Rendering. This simple...

In case you haven't heard , the WinFX February CTP has been released. If you haven't downloaded it yet, what are you waiting for! Go! Get it! Now! Alright, as is the custom, I've posted a new and improved drop of my Bag-O-Tricks...

I found a great walk-through on how to enable file sharing on Windows XP. http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm Besides this article, there are a number of other great resources for Internet Connection Sharing, among others...

...but I really like the command prompt. There have been a lot of posts about Monad on MSDN Blogs. Take a look at the demo on Channel 9. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25915 Very cool.

I’m going to walk through creating a simple TreeView with the March CTP of Avalon. First, the tools you need. 1) Visual C# Express 2) Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview - March 2005 (In a previous post , I’ve...