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"Oslo" Web Links
Microsoft "Oslo" Resources " Oslo" Developer Center Download the "Oslo" SDK Ask a Question About "Oslo " Report an Oslo Bug A Lap Around "Oslo" (PDC video) "Oslo" - The Language (PDC video) "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience Read More...
Models Remixed
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Microsoft "Oslo" Web Page
Now that PDC is in full swing, the Oslo Developer Center has been published. It contains a lot of great information about the whole Oslo platform - the Repository, the M modeling language, and Quadrant. Quadrant is the specific piece that I work on so Read More...
Programmatically Changing Your IP Address
A friend needs to change back and forth between a DHCP network and a static IP network. Rather than teach her how to go in and configure the settings manually, I wanted to write her a program that would automate everything. I found the registry settings Read More...
Oslo Elevator Pitch
One of the big challenges for me has always been coming up with a short and sweet elevator pitch for our offering, but recently Don Box and Doug Purdy have done just that on their respective blogs. http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/dbox/archive/2008/09/06/oslo.aspx Read More...
Interview with Ivo Manolov, WPF Test Manager
Michael Hunter and I headed over to building 40 this week to interview Ivo Manolov, the test manager for Windows Presentation Foundation. Ivo has some great insight on what it takes to be a great tester. We're trying out these videos on Channel9 instead Read More...
Oslo at PDC 2008
Are you going to PDC this year? Be sure to stop by some of the Connected Systems Division talks to hear about the project I work on. There are plenty of people more qualified than me to give the talks, and that's just fine with me. I'll be hard at work Read More...
We Want Your Crash Dump
I'll admit that prior to coming to Microsoft, I rarely clicked "Send report to Microsoft" when something would crash, and I never participated in the customer experience improvement option when offered. Now that I'm participating on some teams Read More...
Blogs of Senior Microsoft Testers
I have been meaning to make a post listing out the blogs of some of Microsoft's senior testers, and I was reminded of that task today when I found out that James Whittaker has started blogging. If you're interested in testing, these are great places to Read More...
Tester Spotlight: Bryan Lipscy
Michael Hunter and I recently recorded an interview with Bryan Lipscy, a tester on the Windows help team. I never thought about all the work that goes into testing the help system, but it's quite impressive. The video is currently on the front page of Read More...
I Am The Empire
Thanks to the team over at Microspotting.com for sending me an "I Am The Empire" t-shirt! Read More...
Microspotting
One of my favorite parts of my job at Microsoft is the wide variety of people that I get to interact with on a daily basis. Want a meet a guy who toys with buying a hovercraft? How about the guy who wrote a bunch of the code books on my shelf? What about Read More...
Elevated Permissions and the Vista SP1 Registry
We recently ran into an interesting issue with our installer which requires elevated permissions to run on Vista SP1. The installer wrote registry entries to HKCR. This is a virtualized hive and the entries are actually written to HKCU. When we ran the Read More...
Oslo in BillG's Keynote
The project I work on, Oslo, was mentioned in BillG's keynote at TechEd. You can see the video clip here: http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/presspass/zune/Looking_Ahead_Zune.wmv And you can read a few articles about it here: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=502DF734-17A4-0F78-3147272EA3E37019 Read More...
Failure to Fail
Here's a quick testing tip: make it as difficult as possible for your test to pass. Otherwise, a failure to fail may be reported as a success and mask a real problem. For example, if your method returns non-zero for a failure, initialize your result code Read More...
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