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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:43 PM

You too can look like MS Office 2007

Today we announced a new licensing program for the Microsoft Office 2007 user interface components . Licensing UI in this way is something for new Microsoft, but it should work out well for developers who want to take advantage of all the research that
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Monday, October 30, 2006 4:11 PM

Setting AutoArchive properties on a folder hierarchy in Outlook 2007

Is there anything more fun than writing custom VBA macros to solve a problem you face in your favorite app? Actually, I'm sure there's lots that's more fun. But, since I went through the pain of figuring this out, I figured I'd post here for posterity
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Friday, July 14, 2006 11:50 AM

How I think about the Windows Vista platform

There are a ton of new features in the Windows Vista platform (thousands of new APIs), some of which are accessible on Windows XP and Server 2003 via redistributable runtimes. Because of those runtimes, we often hear confusion from partners about how
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Friday, May 05, 2006 11:38 AM

IE 7 security is already making a difference

I've been using various beta builds of IE 7 for several months now, and I am really impressed with the new security features and default settings . I've seen gold bar and address bar warnings that highlight real issues with real commercial sites as I've
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Friday, March 31, 2006 1:45 PM

Using App Verifier to catch dangerous C++ code

One of the very cool things about the Visual Studio Team System 2005 release is that it includes a number of tools for code robustness that were developed for internal use at Microsoft. Many of the same tools that the Windows team and others use to improve
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Friday, February 17, 2006 12:44 PM

Windows Vista software logo guidelines draft available

I just discovered that an early draft (version .5) of the logo guidelines for Windows Vista software is available here . It's only a draft, but it gives you a good idea of the basics you have to implement in order to qualify for the Windows Vista logo.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:44 PM

Developer's guide to new Vista APIs

Last month, the MSDN team published a doc that's long been in the works -- a developer's introduction to some of the new APIs in Windows Vista . The real meat is in the .chm file (self-extracting exe), with some sample code and detailed API info. This
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:53 PM

PDC 05 videos online (with a few issues)

Many folks have noticed that Mike Swanson's weeks of hard work have paid off, and the full video, PPT and demo recordings of PDC 05 sessions are now online (and that the DVD sets for attendees will be on the way soon as well.) Seems like the videos are
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Monday, September 12, 2005 9:07 PM

Another mini-guide update

We heard from some attendees that they were having a hard time choosing between DAT209 (WinFS Future Directions: An Overview) and TLN306 (The .NET Language Integreate Query Framework: An Overview) in the Wednesday 1:45pm timeslot. To make it a little
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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:59 AM

How to build a great Windows Vista app

One of the goodies that PDC attendees will find in their swag bag is a poster called "Lighting up on Windows Vista". It lists the top 10 things developers can do to build apps that will run like a dream on our new OS release. We've now posted a short
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 8:38 PM

PDC mini-guide updates

The PDC content team is on site in LA! It's been an intense last month getting ready for the event, which explains the absence of any interesting blog posts from me. If I have some time in the next few days before the show starts, I will try to write
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Monday, August 22, 2005 4:47 PM

PDC session list now in XLS and RSS formats

Sometimes it's the little things that make a difference...by popular request, the current list of PDC sessions is now available as an Excel spreadsheet , or as RSS^H^H^H Web Feeds ;). Any changes we make to session titles, speakers, timeslots, etc (and
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:12 PM

The Register gets two facts wrong about IE 7 TechBeta

Andrew Orlowski, of The Register, recently posted a very short blurb about problems with IE 7 . He makes two significant errors that I want to clear up here. It took my all of 3 minutes to refute these statements on my XP SP 2 box running IE 7 TechBeta
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:04 AM

Windows Vista dev overviews now up!

check it out, http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:17 PM

Avoiding memory leak patterns in your IE script

Justin Rogers , a dev on IE's object model team, posts about his recent MSDN article on leak patterns in IE . If you're doing serious DHTML development for IE, this article is a must read. Says Justin: let's look at the following patterns: Circular References—When
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