I've now released 2 apps to the Windows Phone App store. The first App, Frotz.NET , was truly a labor of love. It took almost a year to pull the various pieces together, and to craft the UI for the various platforms. It's very much a niche product...

I finally reached the culmination of a year long project of porting Frotz to Windows Phone 7. (Obviously, it didn't take a whole year to do the work, just there were spaces between each chunk of work) First it was ported to .NET focusing on the command...

At the beginning of the year, I posted that I had ported Frotz to .NET. The was truly only part of the story. One of the goals of that port was to get Frotz to run on the new Windows Phone (under the assumption that the phone would run .NET <grin>...

When I joined MEF, I was looking at some of the places it could be used. One of the more interesting places it can be used is in Visual Studio to extend the editor. When I found you could extend Intellisense, I spent several hours delving into it's capabilities...

I've been working on a port of Frotz to the .NET language. I hope to post some about the experience of porting it to .NET, but for now, I wanted to get it out there. You can download it here. It's fairly complete, can play all Infocom games except the...

I've been with MS for just under 11 months now, and I'm going through my first job change. After working on .NET Ria Services since I got here, I'm now moving to the project I originally interviewed for, and one of my true passions, MEF (Managed Extensibility...

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx You’ve probably seen this elsewhere, but I thought it was worth linking to. I’ve used a few of these already, and they are very, very useful.

If you happen to use the Terminal Services client in the Win 7 beta, there’s a cool new feature you might not be aware of. You’ll notice that the title bar at the top of a full screen window looks a little different, it’s more of a UI element than just...

It’s amazing how far we’ve come just to be stuck with a different form of some very old problems. We got Wrath of the Lich King as a present for my step-son. Since he hadn’t been playing it in a while, we had to re-install. And the discs are still...

It’s our first Christmas here in the Seattle area, and while everybody tells us this isn’t normal, it looks like we’re going to have White Christmas. Unfortunately, we’re also getting Cabin fever. We’ve been trapped near our house since we got back into...

After posting my snowflake sample on Friday, I decided I wanted to make it a gadget since that was actually my intention with the WPF version, but WPF gadgets aren’t easy. However, putting a Silverlight in the sidebar is very easy (As long as you are...

When I was younger, I used to type in programs from computer magazines. In an early issue of one of them (I forget which one), there was a small graphics program called snowflak.bas which drew an arm with ten lines, redrew it 6 times around a circle,...

This is my first post on my internal Microsoft blog. For many years, I’ve had a blog on weblogs.asp.net , but now that I work here I figure I’d make one on blogs.msdn.com :) I’m currently an SDET working in the Developer Division. I’ve been here about...