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Monday, August 27, 2007 8:00 PM

ICorPublish does not cross the 32/64 bit boundary

I mentioned earlier that ICorDebug does not cross the 32/64 boundary . If you want to debug a 32-bit managed app, you need to use a 32-bit version of the ICorDebug interfaces (or Mdbg). If you want to debug a 64-bit managed app, you need a 64-bit savy
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Friday, August 24, 2007 7:46 AM

Tennis ambiguity

My wife and I were playing Tennis. We're both pretty new to it and knew we were supposed to hit the ball back and forth but couldn't remember the finer details of scoring. I thought that it was best of 5 sets. She thought it was best of 3 sets. We learned
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:58 PM

What I'm reading now: Showstoppers

I'm reading " ShowStoppers ", by G. Pascal Zachary, which describes the effort to build the first version of NT. I'd recommend it. It was a very impressive accomplishment, and the book describes the magnitude and sacrifice to accomplish such an engineering
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:15 AM

Indirection is funny

In code, unnecessary layers of indirection can be confusing and lead to bug. Do you really need to write code like: ***p = ****q. However, in natural language, technically correct usages of indirection can be funny and sound sophisticated. "We need a
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Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:26 PM

My first LiveWriter PlugIn is posted to the gallery

My first Windows Live Writer (WLW) PlugIn is now published on the WLW Gallery of Plugins. You can download the MSI from Gallery here . It gets a bible "verse of the day" from an known RSS feed and inserts it as HTML content into the blog post. The source
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Friday, August 10, 2007 8:00 AM

Unit tests for a simple OnMoved event handler

Sometimes even the simple stuff can have some interesting unit tests and corner cases. I had a class that's basically a "Thing" with an X,Y position and an OnMoved event. In C# : public class ThingMovedArgs { public ThingMovedArgs( Thing t, Point ptOld,
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:30 AM

Updating my sample for the Silverlight Refresh

You may have heard there was a July'07 refresh of silverlight to the original Mix'07 release. Unfortunately, this refresh breaks the Visual Studio Silverlight templates from Mix, and my first Silverlight example falls victim. Joe Stegman has a great list
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:44 PM

Updating Visual Studio for the Silverlight 1.1 Refresh

You may have heard about the recent Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh to the original Silverlight alpha released at Mix'07. The Alpha Refresh does break the mix'07 Visual Studio templates, so you need to get an updated tools stack in order to fix the problem.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:13 AM

Why is there a separate 'debug pack' for Silverlight?

To debug Silverlight apps, you need to download a separate debug pack on top of VS Orcas and the Silverlight runtime. A disadvantage is that this introduces yet another versioning boundary , and another thing to install for silverlight developement. The
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Monday, August 06, 2007 8:04 AM

Setting transparency in an image

Just as Jackie Chan does his own stunts; I do my own image drawing. Some of my "art": (The yellow arrow here ). The shapes in my Silverlight 1.1 app : The astute observer probably noticed that all of my work is very primitive and done in MS Paint (yup,
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:26 AM

Making "Required properties" less annoying

Be wary of "required" properties that must be explicitly set correctly in order for the object to function (especially if it's not obvious). I recently got burned by this, and it's certainly a frustrating problem to diagnose. In my case, the function
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Friday, August 03, 2007 1:26 AM

My first (non-trivial) Windows Live Writer Plugin

So the Live Writer Plugin model is so cool and easy that I had to write a plugin. (and do it with Edit-and-Continue ). The obvious ones were already done (eg, Paste code from VS), so I scratched my head for an idea and I finally got one: a "verse of the
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