Dan Fernandez's Blog : February 2006

February 2006 - Posts

Two Visual Studio Product Manager Positions

Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 2:58 PM by danielfe

It's a great time to join Microsoft as Jay Roxe points out two jobs he wants to hire for including Visual Studio Product Manager and Visual Studio Tools for Office Product Manager positions . Read More...

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Mary Jo Foley on the "Live" brand being the new ".NET"

Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:59 AM by danielfe

Why is it so obvious to anyone outside of Microsoft that our branding strategy needs help ? Read More...

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Half Life 2 Rube Goldberg Device Contest

Posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:48 AM by danielfe

There's a Half Life 2 contest using Garry's Mod to create Rube Goldberg devices (an incredibly complex device designed to accomplish a very simple task). This video shows a hilarious one Source: Digg.com Read More...

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Filed under: Gaming, coding4fun

Rusty wants you to join the C# Test Team

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:38 AM by danielfe

The C# team currently has four software development positions in Test and Rusty blogs about the cool tools used internally including CompilerFX, TAO, and DELTA . Check it out and email the team at vcsjobs@microsoft.com . Read More...

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The Accordian Guy's Take on the Express Web Site

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:15 AM by danielfe

Scott Currie sent me this a while back and I'm only getting around to posting about it now, but this is hilarious !!! Read More...

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Filed under: Personal

Formatting bound ASP.NET types requires explicitly changing the HtmlEncode property

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:46 AM by danielfe

I ran into this one while migrating our Beta 2 code to VS RTM for an internal reporting site, but the behavior for ASP.NET 2.0 changed within betas and, in short, anytime you want to add a formatting string, like any of the numeric or date format strings Read More...

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C9'er Designed Express Wallpaper

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:31 AM by danielfe

Thanks to Charles for sending me this link, but Sushovan De posted on Channel9 some cool Visual Studio Express themed wallpaper for all the Express products! Higher Res Image Links Visual Web Developer Express Visual Basic Express Visual C# Express Visual Read More...

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Filed under: coding4fun

Official Visual Studio Servicing Site

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:24 AM by danielfe

I'm actually surprised that this didn't make more noise, but we officially launched a Visual Studio Servicing Web site that includes timeframes for when the Developer Division will release Visual Studio service packs. Snipped from the site: Visual Studio Read More...

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Filed under: announcements

"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" and why I love Family Guy

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:51 AM by danielfe

If you're one of those people that get songs stuck in your head, don't follow any of these links :) I love Family Guy . Its arguably my favorite TV show right now and its simply brilliant (The Daily Show with John Stewart is a very close second). On any Read More...

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Filed under: Personal

How To Manually Create Outlook Calendar Appointments

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:38 AM by danielfe

Here's a gem from David Goodhand, a Microsoft vet that arguably taught me everything I needed to know about giving technical presentations on how to manually create Outlook Calendar appointments. Copy/Pasted from David's email If you’re try to write an Read More...

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Google Images Slideshow

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:23 AM by danielfe

Sam Weera wrote a VB mod using some of my old Google Images screenscraping demo code and created a Google Images Slideshow app in VB. Arian Kulp also wrote a handy Coding4Fun article showing how to create your own Wallpaper Cycler These are both pretty Read More...

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Object Test Bench Doesn't Work For Web Projects

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:06 AM by danielfe

A customer recently emailed me asking why Object Test Bench doesn't work for Web projects and it seems there isn't any documentation on this limitation anywhere. In short, Object Test Bench (OTB) does *not* work with Web projects. Due to a bug, OTB still Read More...