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Pseudo-random posts on Media Center, with occasional flashbacks to Visual Studio.

If you are seeing two Netflix tiles in Windows Media Center after installing the app, then try going...

Date: 05/21/2009

I'm heading to Australia with Katherine for Christmas, and while looking for ways to make travel a...

Date: 12/05/2007

VS 2005/2008 have a dialog that shows up on first launch (the first launch dialog if you will) that...

Date: 07/27/2007

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available. Go wild....

Date: 07/26/2007

Working on the Visual Studio Tool Platform team, we do a lot of work on making VS extensible and...

Date: 07/10/2007

This is another one of those things that I forget all the time, so I'm posting here as a way of...

Date: 05/10/2007

Thanks to Kara Ottowell (I think I relearn this trick every two or three years, posting here so I...

Date: 04/05/2007

Project types other than C++ use another wizard mechanism, but if you're extending VC, you probably...

Date: 03/07/2007

If you've tried to create a smart device Win32 project on Windows Vista or after installing IE7, you...

Date: 02/14/2007

For those of you building applications with significant plugin architectures, this is definitely a...

Date: 01/12/2007

Yes folks, it's ready. Get it while it's still hot from the oven....

Date: 12/15/2006

https://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2006/12/11/avoiding-coding-pitfalls-with-performance-signatures....

Date: 12/11/2006

I just found this link in email, and thought it would prove handy to you lucky MSDN subscribers who...

Date: 11/17/2006

There are a very large number of commands in Visual Studio 2005, and some of them operate in ways...

Date: 10/19/2006

This came up on one of the internal mailing lists. Is there a way to restrict Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P...

Date: 10/16/2006

Has Visual Studio 2005 stopped responding to arrow keys, do shortcut keys not work anymore? Only...

Date: 10/05/2006

Here's hoping that it does. I've been a pretty lazy blogger recently, but I've got what I view as a...

Date: 07/13/2006

These steps are modified from instructions sent out by Paul Harrington, a dev lead on the VS Tools...

Date: 06/11/2006

https://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.637604~-122.133257&style=h&lvl=15&scene...

Date: 05/24/2006

Normally I try to avoid putting any sort of marketroid material up here (if you were to look at my...

Date: 04/28/2006

I've seen a few reports lately of people having issues when they set the "register output" property...

Date: 04/24/2006

It's inconvenient to have a debugger attached to your device all the time, so why not take advantage...

Date: 04/04/2006

We didn't have time to do a proper implementation of the static analysis tools from Visual Studio...

Date: 04/04/2006

I saw a post on one of our development forums asking how to debug a crash dump file (e.g. foo.kdmp)....

Date: 04/04/2006

I found out via Jason Landridge's blog,...

Date: 11/18/2005

I don't have any musical talent, but I've always been interested in the music industry. Jac Holzman...

Date: 11/10/2005

Scott Wiltamuth (the Product Unit Manager for the C# team) has a post on his blog...

Date: 11/09/2005

Those of you who have been developing for devices for a few years might remember how painful it was...

Date: 11/01/2005

Well, everyone else was doing it, so I had to add my own post announcing that we've shipped, for...

Date: 10/31/2005

I'm a huge nerd. This is the reason that I'm compelled to do things like replace my TiVo with a...

Date: 10/25/2005

Apparently there was some default setting causing email notification when comments are left on the...

Date: 10/10/2005

I'm not sure that everyone out there is aware of these, so here's a quick plug for the MSDN forums...

Date: 09/15/2005

Now with 30% more intangibles! Like every other product out there, we need to balance ease of use...

Date: 09/12/2005

Given that I helped to ship Visual C++ for Devices (VCD) to an unsuspecting development community,...

Date: 09/12/2005

NOTE: this add-in/patch is only required for Beta2. If you have a CTP, or the RC build beyond Beta2,...

Date: 06/15/2005

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to talk to the VSD team at MEDC in Las Vegas....

Date: 05/16/2005

Apparently ActiveSync 4.0 Developer Preview is now available as a download:...

Date: 05/12/2005

Guest blogger VladF takes over for a moment to talk about the device emulator network connectivity...

Date: 05/10/2005

A very savvy user logged a bug against VS2005 Beta 2 to let us know that VCBuild.exe wasn't working...

Date: 05/09/2005

Just a quick note, about 15 members of the Visual Studio for Devices team are at Mobile and Embedded...

Date: 05/09/2005

This is a little bit ugly, but it does the job. An unfortunate side effect of this build rule is...

Date: 03/31/2005

First off, sorry for not blogging for an extended period of time, but the good news is that we've...

Date: 03/31/2005

Well, code signing is implemented and I'm waiting on a code review before checking it in. This...

Date: 07/09/2004

So, even though you don't have your hands on the beta yet, we're already addressing your concerns....

Date: 05/26/2004

Okay, so I'm a bad person who doesn't blog enough. This entry has actually been mostly done for a...

Date: 05/26/2004

Hey, given the great feedback we got from Josh's new project questions, we're going to pose another...

Date: 02/19/2004

So, the next version of the IDE will support multiple platforms per project, including Win32 and...

Date: 02/05/2004

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