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Monday, August 31, 2009 11:09 AM

ThinkWeek RTW

Released to the internal web (RTW) anyway J Much of my delay in blogging has been because I’ve been busy with trying to keep that “work life balance” and something had to give. J In a couple previous posts, I un-characteristically wrote in a style that
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Friday, August 14, 2009 9:33 AM

Technical Strategy Group (TSG)

Following on a previous post, I thought I would talk a bit more on my teams charter, contributions to Microsoft, and some of my areas of responsibility. TSG Team Charter The Technical Strategy Group (TSG) works to capture and influence Business, eXperience
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:01 PM

Grassroots Innovation @ Microsoft

I will be blogging more on the subject of Innovation @ Microsoft as well as how our Technical Strategy Group supports innovation within (and external partnerships) Microsoft. This post follows my previous article on the subject of the long standing Microsoft
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:42 PM

Microsoft - The Economy, ThinkWeek, Innovation,...

In my last post I mentioned my new role in the Microsoft Technical Strategy group and the promise of more on the subject. So here is some late breaking news, hot of the press, on one of our programs – ThinkWeek . Context - Economic Realities We are all
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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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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:14 PM

Silverlight 2 is here

Delivering on the earlier promise , here are some links to Silverlight v2. Silverlight home page Silverlight 2 Launch page Dowload ScottGu's blog has the details you have come to expect. Cool SL2 page: HardRock Memorabilia site . Note, I had to close
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Monday, August 11, 2008 4:27 PM

Process Creation and Coordination

function ToggleDisplay (label, control) { if (control.style.display == "none") { control.style.display = "block"; label.innerText = "Hide Code"; } else { control.style.display = "none"; label.innerText = "Show Code ..."; } } In some previous posts ( Out
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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:15 AM

RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Client App Deployment)

I wanted to thank all the ISV's, VAR's, and SI's I have spoken with and those who have replied to my requests for soliciting feedback on Client Application Development (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) ). This release
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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:11 AM

Silverlight 2, Beta 2 and the 2008 Olympics

Some time ago I wrote a post about the announced Silverlight 2 product . While I received a number of favorable comments, I also received some skepticism. We have been working hard on delivering on our goals in the form of providing an amazing media experience
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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, March 06, 2008 1:04 PM

Microsoft announcement of Silverlight 2 (Devices/RIA/Client)

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a significant technology advancement in Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform development. This announcement was significant on many levels from my perspective. It solidifies (beyond SL 1) the ability to use .Net to develop
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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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