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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks to the team over at Microspotting.com for sending me an "I Am The Empire" t-shirt!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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