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Friday, March 27, 2009 10:46 AM

"Lost" and found

Where have you been? Assuming I haven’t lost all my readers by now, due to my silence, this seems to be a reasonable question. Does anyone out there watch “ Lost ”? I ended up getting hooked in the beginning and now I can’t avert my eyes. As I wrote this
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Monday, May 12, 2008 11:42 AM

Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code

Earlier I posted a link to the announcement on ScottGu's blog about the framework source availiability for debugging. I wanted to follow-up with my experience using the reference source. I found the installation instructions on "Configuring Visual Studio
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Monday, March 10, 2008 1:01 PM

Extensibility; Clients and Services calling each other

In this post I will be showing sample code (also found on our CodePlex site ) as well as an execution sequence diagram. I will show sample code addressing some frequently asked questions; A Host calling AddIn services, AddIns calling (aka. Automation)
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Attachment(s): BiDirectionCalls.zip
Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:19 PM

You asked for it (AddIn pipeline generator)

After all, our job is to make your life easier. I have received a *lot* of requests for a tool that can generate the Add-In pipeline segments. Ever since we mistakenly left comments in our MSDN articles code about the pipeline source being machine generated,
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:55 AM

Winforms, WPF and AppDomain isolation

We just posted a solution to consider for the F.A.Q. of how to enable isolatable WinForms applications. Check out this link . This solution may be considered relative to my previous post and subsequent comments. Note that WPF startup performance costs
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Monday, November 19, 2007 10:38 AM

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM

It's official. We have released to manufacturing. I am personaly very excited about the Add-in addtions to the BCL, but you can also find over 250 new features in this release (e.g., LINQ). Check out the new release here .
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Monday, November 12, 2007 4:38 PM

TechEd 2007 F.A.Q.

Hola! I just returned from TechEd 2007 held in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is a beautiful city with incredible new and old architecture. The people are very friendly and even I was able to navigate the clean public transportation systems. Yes, I am one
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:44 AM

TechEd Developers conference

TechEd is shaping up to be a huge event in part due to the fact that we will not have a PDC this year. Jesse and I will be doing a presentation on the Add-in model, and participating in a chalk talk among other things. If you have an opportunity to attend
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:05 PM

.Net 3.5 for ISV’s, Channel 9 video

We have modified the Soapbox video by moving the WPF on BCL Add-in model demo to the start of the video and we have posted this updated video to Channel 9 . The video will also be on the Channel 9 home page for a while. From James, “Several weeks back
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:46 PM

.Net framework source code released

Recently I was speaking to a group of ISV's and Enterprise partners and as we spoke about the continued transparency of Microsoft, I vaguely mentioned more is coming. Well, here it is. ScottGu's blog post goes into the details of opening up our framework
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:26 AM

What’s new in the .Net Framework 3.5 (Orcas)

Visual Studio (VS) 2008 and .Net 3.5, code named “Orcas”, will be released in the near future. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. The release includes new major features such as LINQ , Cider (The VS WPF designer), “ Crossbow
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:17 AM

Is he getting on his Soapbox again?

Last year, I did a webcast when I was attending an SI (Solution/System Integrator) Architect conference in Paris. Ah, Paris in the spring, love the Champs-Elysees and the Aviation club in particular. The webcast was done as part of an ISV webcast series.
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Attachment(s): ISVWinFXAddinIntroBlog.zip
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:08 PM

Lights, Camera, Action!

Another Paris Hilton, Pam Anderson, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, or Political video? Nope, Sorry. All business on this site. I was recently interviewed by James Vastbinder, an ISV Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft. We discussed the needs of ISV’s
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:07 PM

WPF 3.5 Add-In help

Here is the MSDN help link for what's new in WPF 3.5 regarding support for Add-In's .
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Friday, July 27, 2007 1:03 PM

We saved the best for last!

VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2 (code name "Orcas") is now available. Here is the link to download . I am extremely excited about this release due to a number of features that I have been passionately advocating on behalf of the customer for several years.
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