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Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:43 PM

Work on the C# Team...

Jay writes about some openings to work on the C# team. If you've never considered working at Microsoft, you might want to read http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog
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Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:38 AM

COM wrappers in C# - the easy way

M ihailik had a good suggestion for how to do COM interop in C# the the comments to a previous post that I'd like to share. In many cases, TLBIMP produces a wrapper that can be used directly, and that's certainly the easiest way to do things. But sometimes
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Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:05 AM

Now there's a limo...

Now there's a limo
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:38 PM

What's wrong with this code (COM Interop)?

A special "COM Interop" edition of "What's Wrong with this code?" This code is using some Windows Media interfaces to get the properties from a profile. IWMMediaProps::GetMediaType() gets a _WMMediaType structure. Because there is optional format data
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:58 PM

Exactly what is "Over The Top"

On the Northwest Rocketry mailing list, there are sometimes discussion as to what qualifies as "over the top". Here's an example in a related field.
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Monday, September 27, 2004 12:43 PM

Mediterranean Medley

I like to cook, though I don't have much time to focus on it. I usually have one or two dishes that I'm working on, and since Jim Carson has been putting recipes on his blog , I figured I'd do one on mine as well. This one is pretty good if you use fresh
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Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:31 PM

Halo: First Strike

When I was in the library on Saturday, I came across a copy of Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund. I figured that since I had spent a ton of time playing the game, it would be worth it to spend a little time reading a Halo book. I didn't expect much -
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Friday, September 24, 2004 9:49 PM

The power of snow...

We have a ski place in Skykomish. Given that it's only at 1000 feet of altitude and we don't get much snow at our house at about 300', you wouldn't think that there would be much snow at the ski place. You would be wrong. In February of the first winter,
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Friday, September 24, 2004 11:54 AM

Group Blogs

Daniel wrote, I am interested in your comment about not subscribing to group blogs. Why? Isn't it a good way to discover new blogs worth reading? Just curious... I think it's important to differentiate between two types of blogs. The terms I use (which
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Friday, September 24, 2004 9:11 AM

Tom Peters Blog

Tom Peters is an influential thinker on business and management, and I've been reading his stuff since the late 1980s. I think " In Search of Excellence " was the first book of his that I read. He has a blog (well, a group blog, but I'm going to make
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:14 AM

Puzzling through Erasure II

Bruce Eckel has some further thoughts about the use of erasure in Java generics . Erasure is the way that Java gets generic types without adding VM support. When the developer writes something like: List<Integer> in Java generics, the compiler knows
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:32 PM

More on DirectShow and C#

To respond to a few of the comments on my first post One person asked whether MM would be rewritten to use the media foundation classes in LH. I'm not really the right person to comment on that - that would seem to be a marketing function. In the C# team,
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Monday, September 20, 2004 3:45 PM

DirectShow and C#

I'm currently in the "ramping up" phase of my job, and last week I spent a fair amount of time playing around with DirectShow from C#. DirectShow is an interesting technology that provides a sort of "building block" approach to multimedia. You create
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Monday, September 20, 2004 12:05 PM

Reverse

Another way to "improve" your hand-eye coordination. Reverse
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Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:36 PM

Coming soon to a medicine cabinet near you...

Let's see... band aids... Motrin... Ah, here they are !
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:13 AM

Performance of Generics

Rico wrote a short post covering 6 questions about generics. It has some good information in it, but I'm not sure that you should spend too much time thinking about the issues that he's talking about. Groups writing libraries inside Microsoft should take
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:58 PM

2004 Headwaters Century

Today was the Headwaters Century . Last year, I rode the 66 mile variant, but this time I wanted to do the whole ride. Alas, it was not to be. Whether it was being sick for a week, tailing off my training, or not staying hydrated, the first two hours
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:47 PM

Aspiring Fred...

Fred n. 1) a person who spends a lot of money on his bike and clothing, but still can't ride I decided a while back that my trusty old LeMond Tourmalet (named after a famous cycling climb often featured in the Tour de France, as most of LeMond's bikes
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:43 PM

My First Inspection...

We have a ski cabin up near Skykomish , a really small (~~ 200 people) town on Highway 2 towards Stevens Pass . We had the builder build the shell for us - up through drywall and paint - and we've done all the finish work, including all the electrical,
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:06 PM

A built-in stereo cabinet.

I've been spending some time catching up on a few house things this week. Tuesday and Wednesday I spent building a stereo cabinet. I'm lucky enough to have a closet in my family room that backs to a storage area, so I've been rebuilding the closet to
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Sunday, September 05, 2004 4:55 PM

[C# Chat] What's on your mind regarding C#?

September 23 - What's on your mind regarding C#?
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Friday, September 03, 2004 3:12 PM

And so it ends...

Nearly 10 years ago, when I was only 1E years old, I joined the Visual C++ compiler test team to test the new multiple rebuild feature. Since then, I was a lead for testing the whole C++ compiler, helped test a new compiler back end (aka optimizer), and
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:13 PM

Blog Alerts

I recently signed my blog up for the LiveMessage alert system. This means that, if you want, rather than having to goto my blog web page to see if there are new posts, you can get a notification directly. If you're already using an RSS aggregator (SharpReader,
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:24 PM

A song for you...

I usually don't link to Rory , for the simple reason that he's funnier than I am, and I hate that. But I'm going to make an exception for the song that Rory composed about Chris Sells going to Burning Man. It's good he works for Microsoft now. I shudder
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:46 AM

Remotable Windows Media ActiveX Control

A while back, I posted about my problems getting this to work, and I got an email back from somebody internal who had something that works. I got an email from somebody inside of Microsoft who had solved the problem by wrapping the Windows Media Player
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:51 AM

Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

I just finished reading Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission It's written by Andrew Mishkin , a systems engineer at JPL , and gives an insider's view into how the Sojourner team managed to design, build, staff, and operate the rover
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