Dan Crevier's Blog
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In part 1, I described the overall design of the HealthVaultTask class. Now, I’ll go through the...
Date: 12/28/2011
I’ve written a Windows Phone 7 application called Weight4Me that lets you track your weight, syncing...
Date: 12/28/2011
The ability to update the Live Tile in Mango is a really great feature. I have an application where...
Date: 10/19/2011
I recently ran into a problem where I was hosting some content in a WebBrowser in a Windows Phone 7...
Date: 09/12/2011
Is this thing on? I am going to pick up blogging again. It’s been a while! First off, I want to give...
Date: 09/12/2011
We’ve posted some details of our upcoming SkyDrive release here. I’m really excited about what’s...
Date: 11/13/2008
I spend a lot of time time connected to Windows 2003 Server. I was really happy to come across this...
Date: 07/11/2008
The hard drive space on my Vista machine recently dropped to almost nothing, and I was really...
Date: 06/09/2008
We’ve made some more updates to SkyDrive including some features like comments, captions and better...
Date: 05/22/2008
Apple has an update of Bootcamp available, fixing some stability issues. I’ve had more than my fair...
Date: 05/16/2008
I love LINQ! I’ve found that much of the code I write involves manipulating collections in ways that...
Date: 03/25/2008
And, why is the icon so ugly?
Date: 03/20/2008
I find it kind of annoying that Vista SP1 switches the /console switch to /admin. I don't understand...
Date: 03/19/2008
We ran into an interesting bug recently where a resource was being leaked because we weren't...
Date: 03/15/2008
One of my coworkers, Josh Zana, has started a perf blog. Josh has been the perf champion for the...
Date: 03/12/2008
Yesterday, we released a new version of the FolderShare web site and client. My team worked on the...
Date: 03/12/2008
We released SkyDrive to 38 more regions, we're out of beta, and we now give everyone 5 GB of free...
Date: 02/21/2008
Very annoying...
Date: 01/15/2008
Rob Eisenberg posted a new WPF Framework here. I haven't looked at it in detail, but it looks pretty...
Date: 01/07/2008
We've updated SkyDrive with some nice new features. One of the biggest hassles with SkyDrive before...
Date: 10/11/2007
Recently I've started hitting the error below when trying to connect to one of my Windows 2003...
Date: 08/23/2007
Tafiti is an interesting search experience built on top of Windows Live Search and SilverLight. Be...
Date: 08/21/2007
Another feature that went live today is the ability to add a "Files" module to Spaces that shows the...
Date: 08/10/2007
We have updated Windows Live Folders and rebranded it as Windows Live SkyDrive. There are lots of...
Date: 08/09/2007
Okay, now for unit tests of the code from part 3. The goal is to completely cover RenamePageModel....
Date: 07/31/2007
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Date: 07/26/2007
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Date: 07/24/2007
I previously blogged about the pattern we used in our WPF application to separate business logic...
Date: 07/21/2007
The product I've been working on, Live Folders is now up at https://folders.live.com for a limited...
Date: 06/27/2007
HttpResponse.Redirect is used to redirect to another page using a 302 response code. It can be used...
Date: 03/28/2007
I was a little confused about the difference between <%= expression %> and <%# expression...
Date: 02/13/2007
I've been reading Jeremiah Grossman's great accounts of some JSON related cross site request forgery...
Date: 01/05/2007
Inline Search from IE Forge is a must have utility for Internet Explorer. It gives new FireFox-like...
Date: 12/19/2006
There's a good post on web site performance on the Yahoo! User Interface blog. It says it's part one...
Date: 12/19/2006
One thing I didn't fully understand when I first started using ASP.NET is exactly what...
Date: 12/17/2006
I was having a strange problem getting my computer to go to sleep under Vista. When my laptop was...
Date: 12/17/2006
I'm doing some ASP.NET work on my current project (more about that in the coming months). I've spent...
Date: 12/16/2006
I recently upgraded to a Samsung Blackjack phone. It's a tiny QWERTY phone running Windows Mobile...
Date: 11/30/2006
Jimmy Grewal, someone I worked with back in the day on MacIE has finally revealed what he's been...
Date: 11/30/2006
The Microsoft Max project has ended. The website says it best: Thank you for participating in the...
Date: 10/31/2006
I thought I should add a post with the full list of posts in the D-V-VM pattern. They are:...
Date: 10/11/2006
Here's a great article that a coworked pointed out on C++ unit testing frameworks: Link to Games...
Date: 10/03/2006
There's an interesting post on the shell blog called What happened to the menu bars? I find the...
Date: 09/20/2006
Ok, time to wrap this up :-) Now, we'll finally build what I'm calling a view model for managing a...
Date: 09/17/2006
In part 5, I talked about commands and how they are used for behavior. Now, I want to talk about a...
Date: 09/15/2006
They've done some cool stuff in iTunes 7. I hope someone comes out with a subscription video service...
Date: 09/13/2006
There's a TechCrunch article on Max's RSS reading here. I'm glad to see people like it. While the...
Date: 09/09/2006
You can now download a new version of Microsoft Max! It's on .Net Framework 3.0 RC1. We're not on...
Date: 09/08/2006
Windows Live Marketplace looks like a cool way to find Windows software. Give it a try! Link to...
Date: 09/07/2006