February 2008 - Posts
If you ever wondered how life looks like working at Microsoft, check out this video from on10.net which should reveal the “truth” :). Now want to order the “Moon” that Tina ordered? Come on board, join our Dev team or Test Team ! Weijuan
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How often do you get an e-mail where somebody says "this is cool" and provides a link to a web site or a video? "Yea, yea, it’s probably cool but I’ve got work to do" is my usual response. However, the other day I noticed at the bottom of a "cool" e-mail
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I'm sitting in front of the TV waiting for the Daytona 500 race to start (the 'Superbowl' of Nascar racing) and root for #55 Michael Waltrip in the Toyota / Napa car. While waiting for the start I'm surfing the web and figure I'll drop in on some of the
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A big thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on January 29th! If you weren’t able to make it, you can now read the full transcript of the chat on the MSDN site here . Many thanks to our guest expert, Alexander Wechsler, who helped
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[ Update 2/11/09 – To date, .Net Framework 3.5 has *not* been released for XP Embedded. It is available in the build for Windows Embedded Standard 2009. The WES 2009 version is installable both during setup or post-setup via an MSI. This workaround described
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I am writing this from sunny South Africa where I am combining some business with my vacation. It is almost 2pm here and the Marketing Department of Microsoft South Africa in Johannesburg is buzzing (they kindly lent me a desk to work from for 9 days).
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Recently, I was tasked with writing a build automation system for our test group, and while the build system is pretty robust at this point, I've run into quite a few challenges in getting the most critical part of it to work: The part that runs our build
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