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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:18 AM

IServiceProvider vs. IServiceProvider

I've been using the COM IServiceProvider interface for a while now, mostly through extensions to the ATL's IServiceProviderImpl and BEGIN_SERVICE_MAP. Last week, I've been writing some managed code where I wanted to use the same pattern based on the System.IServiceProvider
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:42 AM

Sky's the limit...

...or rather, 5GB is the limit on SkyDrive. :-) Plus, it's now available in 38 markets. Oh, and I should probably mention it's not a Beta anymore. For more details, head on the the SkyDrive team blog .
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:21 PM

Enablilng dragging in Canvas, v3.5 edition

About a year ago I posted a class implemented couple of dependency properties you could attach to a Canvas and it's children and allowed dragging. The DPs were working quite well with any visual element inside the Canvas, including the standard controls
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Friday, March 30, 2007 12:15 AM

Yahoo! Mail Web Service - interesting business model

Dare posted some thoughts on the limitations of the new Yahoo! Mail Web Service . One thing he missed to mention though, is how that Web Service ties into Yahoo! Mail subscription model: "Yahoo! Mail offers an incentive for developers to build applications
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:55 PM

IObjectWithBrowserSiteImpl - base template for IE BHO or toolbars

If you want to extend IE with a browser helper object or a toolbar , you need to implement IObjectWithSite interface. ATL has a basic IObjectWithSiteImpl<> template that helps a bit. Most BHOs and toolbars also subscribe to the browser events. ATL
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:36 PM

Enabling dragging in Canvas, part 2

Update: There were some bugs in the code, which caused funny behavior with elements that have a render transform applied to them. I've updated the code below to fix these. In part 1 we covered how the dragging behavior will be attached to the Canvas object.
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Attachment(s): CanvasDragHelper.zip
Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:27 PM

Incoming posts

Here's short list of topics I am planning to write about in the next month after I finsh the CanvasDragHelper (and if I can find the time). I am going to use this post as a simple survey to see what people would like to see first. Of course, I might not
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:20 AM

Enabling dragging in canvas

When developing UI, most of the time we want the controls nicely sized, ordered and aligned automatically. But sometimes it's just fun to put them free floating and be able to push them around. The Canvas panel allows for absolute positioning of the controls
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:08 AM

Windows Live Toolbar build 130

We just released the latest build of Windows Live Toolbar. There are no new features in this release, it's fucosed mostly on stability and performance improvements. If you use the toolbar, I'd suggest you upgrade. And if you're not using WLT, well, be
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:02 AM

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 RTW

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 (formerly "Atlas") has been released to the web. You can read more about the framework and the control toolkit at http://ajax.asp.net (including some really nice viedeo demos), or grab the bits from here and the toolkit from here .
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:16 AM

Goodbye, Max!

This is a long overdue post. Couple of months ago Microsoft Max was closed. I was too busy with the transition to the new stuff I am working currently, though, so I neglected to post anything about this. The time I spent on Max was full of fun (great
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Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:19 AM

Windows Live Writer Beta announced

Grab the bits from here . For more details go to Writer Zone . Posted using Windows Live Writer (Beta)
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:24 PM

Goodbye, Indigo! Hello, Max!

The three years I worked on WCF were a fun ride, but it's time for me to move on to other challenges. Starting tomorrow I am leaving the Indigo team and moving on to the Max team as a dev.
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Friday, March 18, 2005 7:20 PM

Endpoints configuration

When you write self-hosted Indigo application, you need to define your endpoints yourself. You can do this through your code; however, every time you decide to change your binding or add new endpoint, you'll have to recompile your application. Or you
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:37 PM

Indigo CTP is out there!

Indigo CTP is out there! Well, at least for the MSDN subscribers. Go grab the bits from http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/default.aspx . If you also want documentation and samples, you'll need the WinFX SDK - http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/ as
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