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Netflix in Windows Media Center - Double tiles

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:47 AM by JeffAbraham
If you are seeing two Netflix tiles in Windows Media Center after installing the app, then try going to the tasks strip, selecting the settings tile, then selecting general, then automatic download options. On the page that comes up, select download now. Read More...
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Airline food in all its glory

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:43 PM by JeffAbraham
I'm heading to Australia with Katherine for Christmas, and while looking for ways to make travel a little easier, I stumbled across this site: http://www.airlinemeals.net/indexMeals.html . Photos and commentary. Awesome. Read More...
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Why don't I have the <blank> command/menu in Visual Studio 2005/2008?

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:43 PM by JeffAbraham
VS 2005/2008 have a dialog that shows up on first launch (the first launch dialog if you will) that asks you to choose a collection of settings (which we refer to as a profile) that describe the way you typically use the IDE. Depending on which profile Read More...
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Shiny new bits available

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:15 PM by JeffAbraham
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available. Go wild. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx , linked from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx Read More...
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Raymond on helper functions

Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:19 AM by JeffAbraham
Working on the Visual Studio Tool Platform team, we do a lot of work on making VS extensible and providing infrastructure for other teams to build on top of (some of our work is end user feature work as well, it's an interesting mix of things). We have Read More...
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Using VS (instead of WinDbg) to debug application startup

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:51 PM by JeffAbraham
This is another one of those things that I forget all the time, so I'm posting here as a way of remembering (and because it's incredibly useful if, like me, you find windbg somewhat opaque). http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a329t4ed.aspx It's Read More...
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Break on dll load in Visual Studio

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:44 PM by JeffAbraham
Thanks to Phil Ottowell (I think I relearn this trick every two or three years, posting here so I have a chance to remember it): In VS add a breakpoint and specify the location as, for example {,,compluslm.dll}DllMain if you wanted to break when the compluslm.dll Read More...
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Creating Visual C++ wizards

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:57 PM by JeffAbraham
Project types other than C++ use another wizard mechanism, but if you're extending VC, you probably want to look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730846.aspx . Cheers! Read More...
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Are you having issues creating native projects?

Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:37 PM by JeffAbraham
If you've tried to create a smart device Win32 project on Windows Vista or after installing IE7, you might have seen a failure with a message in the status bar saying "project creation failed". It's a known issue, and has been fixed in SP1, but if you Read More...
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CLR addins blog is live

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 2:57 PM by JeffAbraham
For those of you building applications with significant plugin architectures, this is definitely a blog to keep your eye on. http://blogs.msdn.com/clraddins/ . Read More...
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VS2005 SP1 is out the door!

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:03 PM by JeffAbraham
Yes folks, it's ready. Get it while it's still hot from the oven. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx Read More...
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Rico talks about adding performance data to method signatures

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 2:49 PM by JeffAbraham
http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2006/12/11/avoiding-coding-pitfalls-with-performance-signatures.aspx This is a very interesting article, is it possible that something as simple* as IntelliSense can help you write faster code? Tag method signatures Read More...
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Visual Studio hangs while saving files

Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:06 PM by JeffAbraham
If you are experiencing slowness with saving files in VS2005, it may be related to opening files/projects stored an network locations. In any ASP.Net project, saving (or auto-recover) stalls Visual Studio for around 1 minute. I’ve had to disable Auto-Recover Read More...
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Visual Studio on Windows Vista

Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:49 PM by JeffAbraham
I just found this link in email, and thought it would prove handy to you lucky MSDN subscribers who already have Vista: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx Lately I've been spending a lot of time on the upcoming service pack and Vista Read More...
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More VS2005 keybinding information: Build.BuildOnlyProject and Build.BuildSelection

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:00 PM by JeffAbraham
There are a very large number of commands in Visual Studio 2005, and some of them operate in ways that are subtle, and quick to anger. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=224080 If Build.BuildOnlyProject doesn't Read More...
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