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Our PM just turned on the faucet on the team blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/opc/ This is the place to...

Date: 05/18/2009

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6db1f17f-5f1e-4e54-a331-c32285cdde0c&di...

Date: 05/18/2009

Watching me use WinDbg is probably a bit like watching a new programmer write hello world in Visual...

Date: 03/18/2009

Just a quick note: we've opened up a new forum on MSDN for questions and discussion about OPC....

Date: 02/10/2009

My team has been heads down getting some great stuff together for all of you working on printing...

Date: 11/25/2008

My co-worker Aaron was quick to reply to my earlier post on templates in type-lists with this...

Date: 08/11/2008

[Mohave] Microsoft's 'new' operating system is apparently doing well at wow-ing customers. This...

Date: 07/24/2008

Scenario: I have a template that takes a significant number of arguments, but in the most common use...

Date: 07/23/2008

[edited 7-23-08: updated title, tags] I'm planning a talk on template use, and thought my blog might...

Date: 07/23/2008

Ok, I said in an earlier post that I wasn't going to cover metaprogramming, but I have to post just...

Date: 07/19/2008

This is a bit older news now, but still, it's pretty awesome. The XPS Essentials Pack is now...

Date: 05/22/2007

We've released the final version of Print Schema, and it can be downloaded from here:...

Date: 05/22/2007

When developing PrintTicket support in the configuration module of a filter-pipeline driver, you...

Date: 03/23/2007

The Print Schema 0.95 specification is finally live & ready for review:...

Date: 02/19/2007

I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up: We've had a lot of feedback that it would be...

Date: 02/19/2007

It just came to my attention today that there's not really a good piece of text out there that...

Date: 02/16/2007

So, in a break from my usual technical stuff, I thought I'd talk about something else (closely...

Date: 09/15/2006

I'm covering this topic because I've seen a couple of drivers now that are calling CoUninitialize a...

Date: 09/15/2006

If you're writing a plug-in driver for Unidrv or PScript, there's a design quirk that you should be...

Date: 09/12/2006

[Update: I've set the email address back to my own account.] Well, it's summere here in Seattle, and...

Date: 06/21/2006

If you've been following the blog, and adding support to your drivers for PrintTicket, then you're...

Date: 06/20/2006

If you've been following PrintTicket, you know that it's the way to store printer settings in an XS...

Date: 06/12/2006

These changes will NOT appear in Beta 2. These changes will be included in the RC1 release of Vista....

Date: 06/07/2006

There's an easy mistake to make when writing XPath queries on PrintTickets, and I want to set the...

Date: 05/04/2006

I’ve been getting a number of questions lately about various aspects of adding support for...

Date: 04/12/2006

The PrintTicket contains a feature PageMediaSize that describe various attributes about a piece of...

Date: 03/24/2006

I was recently given some feedback that we haven't explained the concept of partial vs. complete...

Date: 02/05/2006

I'll continue to post information about PrintTicket here & answer questions, however I want to...

Date: 12/29/2005