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Sorry I can't answer the phone right now, I am outside feeding yogurt to the clowns.

June 2004 - Posts

Stopping the “Click here balloon”
Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 had the ability to stop a macro from running by double-clicking the small “spinning cassette” in the system tray next to the clock. For example, suppose you had a macro like this: Sub NeverEndingMacro() Dim ver Read More...
Updates: Device Blogger and VSIP in VS 2005
Last weekend I started playing around with my “Device Blogger” project again – no I have not forgotten about it, just a little busy lately trying to get Beta 1 shipped. I also had a few problems with the project; there were a few bugs Read More...
Beta 1 and the new Template Wizard
As you probably know by now from the abundant number of postings on the issue, VS 2005 beta 1 and the Express editions are now available. A few months ago, when we released the PD5 build of VS , the Add-in wizard had a listing of about 8 different applications Read More...
VB Parser
When working with users who want to use the code model to parse their files, the first thing they ask for is if they can get into the method bodies to find out what is inside of them. The code model does not allow it because of the complexities of designing Read More...
DeviceBlogger
Last night I was sitting in bed watching a little TV, and using my PocketPC to browse the web through my wireless connection in my house. I was also trying to catch up on some of the blogs on MSDN , when I realized that I could easily convert VSBlogger Read More...
VS Blog Reader Sample, IL Projects, and a New Book
It has taken me a while, but I finally uploaded the VSBlogger Add-in to a GotDotNet workspace. You can find it under the name VSBlogger. There are a couple known bugs, mainly that it saves its data files to the “C:\msblogger.dat” root directory Read More...
8 And Counting
8 years ago today was my first day at Microsoft. That was a busy week, which included graduation from college ( Penn State ), my birthday, flying to Seattle , trying to find an apartment and car , etc. Much has changed since then. Microsoft has grown Read More...
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