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February 2005 - Posts

Remote Record Works!

Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 11:18 PM by Brianjo
Sitting on the couch tonigh, my wife asks, "Can you record Fear Factor on that machine of yours?" I say sure and I use Remote Record to set the recording from my laptop. The show gets recorded on the Media Center and we're watching it now through the Read More...
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Visual Studio Debugger Chat Today

Posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:19 AM by Brianjo
Frank let me know that there's a Visual Studio Debugger Chat at 1:00 PM (PST) today. Here are the details: The Visual Studio Debugger Do you have some burning questions or comments about SQL, C#, VB, C++, or script debugging support in Visual Studio? Read More...
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Cooking with .NET

Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:47 PM by Brianjo
I just watched the video of Chris Gray on Channel9 . This is a great piece showing how to create a web service to upload pictures from your camerphone to a home server. Chris Gray - Building your own home server Chris Gray, a developer in the Windows Read More...
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Very Sad

Posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:46 PM by Brianjo
Writer Hunter S. Thompson dead at 67 Read More...
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Superman - The Animated Series

Posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:16 PM by Brianjo
I picked up a copy of Superman - The Animated Series, Volume One this weekend. It's a great series and there are a ton of cool features to go along with this DVD set. It includes the first 18 episodes (of 54 total). We've watched 1 though 4 so far. There Read More...
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VS Editor Zoom

Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:34 PM by Brianjo
In case you haven't seen this, it's an awesome add-in project that you'll want to try out. I found it via the vs2005news's WebLog . This add-in creates a zoom control toolbar that lets you specify the how much you want to magnify the text in Visual Studio. Read More...
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Moleskine Mess

Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:13 PM by Brianjo
I have a confession to make. While I've really enjoyed taking notes in my Moleskine notebook, I have to be honest with myself. This thing is a complete and utter mess. While I've felt pretty creative in my note taking, going back over the stuff I've written Read More...
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Troubleshooting Visual C++ Issues

Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:36 PM by Brianjo
Yesterday, I attended a meeting where MSDN Product Manager Justin Grant went over some of the pain points that customers are having when they visit MSDN. One of these points had to do with searching for the right answer when troubleshooting a problem. Read More...
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Win32 to .NET API Map

Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:05 PM by Brianjo
If you're doing managed development and you're searching for the .NET equivalent of your favorite Win32 functions, then this is the place to look. I think I reviewed this paper last year: Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map This article Read More...
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Protect Against Exploit Code Related to Security Bulletin MS05-009

Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:22 PM by Brianjo
Microsoft posted information tonight to help customers with a Windows and MSN Messenger issue related to MS05-009. Key to protecting yourself is making sure that you've installed the MS05-009 update. Get the details here: Protect Against Exploit Code Read More...
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Windows Resource Kits

Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:16 PM by Brianjo
If you haven't looked at this before, the links on this page go to some of the best information you can get on Windows. I keep having to search for this, and so I'm making a blog note to myself. :) Windows Deployment and Resource Kits Here are a few of Read More...
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Security Updates for February

Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:51 PM by Brianjo
The Windows Security Updates for February have been posted. Here's a link to the page: Windows Security Updates Summary for February 2005 The security updates for February 2005 include several high-priority updates for Microsoft Windows that also affect Read More...
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April Reagan is Blogging

Posted Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:45 AM by Brianjo
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here ( rss ). Here's a link to Read More...
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Reminder: Digital Blackbelt Series

Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 10:32 AM by Brianjo
The first webast in this series is about to begin. MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: The Software Security Crisis: Selling Management on the Need to Invest in Secure Software Development (Level 100) Friday, February 4, 200511:00 A.M.12:00 P.M. Pacific Read More...
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It's the little things...

Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 8:56 AM by Brianjo
It's amazing to find a feature that you didn't know existed in a product you use all the time. I have (casually) looked for a way to write in white on black in Microsoft Word for years. Today, I was reformatting a document in Word 2003 and I noticed that Read More...
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Visual C++ Developer Center

Posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:38 PM by Brianjo
We made some tweaks to the Visual C++ Developer Center today. We added the top five threads from three different newsgroups to the home page. This will make it easy to see what people are talking about around Visual C++ in the newsgroups. For now, I've Read More...
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Wired: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill

Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:00 AM by Brianjo
Well, here's an article that doesn't trim at all with what I've seen at Microsoft. My first thought is, the only people who might give somebody a hard time about a music player are people like me, and it's all in fun. Second, I've seen a couple of music Read More...
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Michael Howard on Safer CRT

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:26 PM by Brianjo
Mike Howard posted a little item on Safer CRT and the relationship between DevDiv (Developer Division) and SBU (Security Business Unit). He promises more posts on security features in Whidby. I get to work with both groups on a regular basis and it's Read More...
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Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:26 AM by Brianjo
Everything you every wanted to know about them is located here: Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas Microsoft offers open and royalty-free documentation and licenses for the Microsoft Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas. These Reference Schemas include SpreadsheetML Read More...
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AWStats Exploits on Apache/Linux

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:56 AM by Brianjo
It looks like a vulnerability in the AWStats tool that runs on Apache is causing some troubles for people who aren't patched to the latest version. I woundn't mention it normally as this runs on Linux, but I've seen at least one person who's blog server Read More...
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New MSN Search

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:35 AM by Brianjo
It looks like this released. I'm pretty excited about this because I use MSN Explorer and it wasn't as convenient to hit the beta page from that browser as it is to use the MSN Search Toolbar . You can find an article about it here: Microsoft antes up Read More...
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Photo Collage with Digital Image Pro 10

Posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:07 AM by Brianjo
I found this great post by Mike Matas (via tuaw ) about how you can create these really cool collages using iPhoto on the Mac. That got me thinking that this could also be done in Digital Image Pro 10 . It actually works! And I think you might end up Read More...
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