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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:17 AM

Just upgraded to Verizon FiOS from Comcast Blast

I've been using Comcast PowerBoost (6Mbps download / 768 Kbs upload) for about a year and have been pretty happy with it. The speed was fine and the price was good at $33/month. (Although I had to keep calling to get them to lower the price after the
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:06 PM

Script# wins a Microsoft Engineering Excellence award

I've been using Script# professionally for more than a year now and am also on the Script# virtual team here at Microsoft. It's nice to see Microsoft awarding an Engineering Excellence award to Script#. Nikhil has written a little more about it here:
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:33 PM

How to escape a leading # within the C preprocessor

This is probably a no-brainer for most people, but for some reason I banged my head against the wall for about an hour trying to figure this one out. Background Oftentimes you have source files (or in our case aspx files) that contain common headers,
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Monday, March 03, 2008 12:27 PM

Changing the file extension of WiX extensions from .dll to .wixext (Revisited)

In one of my last blog posts I wrote about how we would be changing the file extension of WiX extensions from .dll to .wixext. Well, it turns out that we won't be doing it for technical reasons. A WiX extension is really just a .NET assembly with an embedded
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:13 PM

Hilarious video about what it's like to work here at Microsoft

This is a pretty realistic video of what it's like to work here. :) http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Life-At-Microsoft/
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:33 PM

Changing the file extension of WiX extensions from .dll to .wixext

We will be doing a change that will probably affect most users of WiX v3, so I wanted to get this blog post out in the community to notify people of the upcoming change. Within the next few weeks we will be changing the file extension of WiX extensions
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:58 PM

Complete list of Candle preprocessor variables

Some people have asked about this in the past on the wix-users mailing list, so I thought I'd just put it here so it's on the web searches. (We really need to do an overhaul on our WiX home page ). This is just copied verbatim from the Wix.chm file. [Edit]:
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Friday, December 21, 2007 11:32 PM

This is one way for Google to make Microsoft look bad...

I thought this was a pretty amusing blog entry ( http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/12/18/google-toolbar-slows-excel/ ). While I don't think this was intentional, it's a pretty interesting tactic: just install your plug-in to Excel to slow
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Friday, October 19, 2007 11:02 AM

How to use Extensions in Votive (IIS or UI extensions, for example)

It seems we have this question pop up a few times a week on the wix-users mailing list, so I thought I'd add something here as another reference when people are searching the web. Thanks to Aaron Stebner for writing this entry in our WiX.chm file, available
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:35 PM

SyncToy 1.4 and Vista 64-bit (x64) Error

I use the extremely useful SyncToy to mirror my data between various machines at home. However, it did not work on Vista x64. I found this very handy blog post which tells you how to fix the problem. I didn't feel like installing Windows Network Monitor
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:22 PM

Excel Services is a "game changer"

Richard McAniff, one of our corporate vice presidents in Office, had some interesting stuff to say about Excel Services at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Here's an exerpt from the blog at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6149 : I later asked
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:15 AM

London Stock Exchange is Using Excel Services

Cool! http://windowsfs.com/eNews/tabid/112/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2073/Default.aspx
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:58 PM

Shahar has waaay too much time on his hands :)

Check out this blog post from Shahar, one of the devs I work with. http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2007/08/21/code-art-like-ascii-art-only-sucks-so-much-more-to-create.aspx
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Friday, April 13, 2007 10:47 AM

Job Openings on My Team

My team (Excel Server) is currently hiring developers. It's a great team to work on and we do some cool stuff. Since we're still a fairly new team (we just shipped version 1.0 with Office Server System 2007), there's still lots and lots of new code to
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:19 AM

New Excel Services forum on MSDN

If you ever have any Excel Services questions, feel free to use the new forum on MSDN to post your questions. We'll try to be responsive in giving out answers. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1208&SiteID=1
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