Things worth forgetting when you're not in front of a computer screen

Introduction In this post, I’ll demonstrate a chat application and provide complete source code and instructions for creating it. It can then serve as a great starting point for being modified to create any sort of peer-to-peer application with a flexible...

Last week I posted a description of how to write a peer-to-peer chat application using WCF, with a WPF GUI layer isolated from the application logic, all built using .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. The basic approach was adapted from the article at http...

  On May 17th, our organization was announced publicly: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2010/05-17HPC.mspx   And our mission is described here: http://www.modelingtheworld.com

  Our New England R&D center gets bigger, expanding its presence in the Boston area: http://microsoftcambridge.com/blog/site/2010/05/25/nerd-is-expanding-in-kendall-square/

Open the specific email message of interest in a new window by double-clicking its line in the email summary pane. Go to the “File” tab in the new window and click on the “Properties” button. Note that if you go to the “File” tab in your main Outlook...

ctrl-alt-printscreen Apparently most people have known this for years, but I never needed it when I was growing up in front of a unix command line. Now I use it every day. And of course, [printscreen] to copy the image of the whole screen into the clipboard...

Here’s a good quote that I came across today (credit to Matthew Gertz). A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort...

Click the Windows logo Start buttony thingy. Start typing the word “presentation” into the “Search programs and files” box. By the time you’ve entered p-r-e-s-e-n, you’ll see a link to “Adjust settings before giving a presentation”