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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:17 AM

www.officelabs.com and Garage: How Microsoft Supports Grassroots Innovation

This post was originally aimed for Microsoft employees who also have a side project, or a hobby project. It turns out, we have a nice internal thing called “The Garage” that is aimed to specifically support and foster such “evenings-
Posted by Kirill Osenkov | 0 Comments
Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:22 PM

Calling new on an interface

Interesting thing: technically there is a way to call new on an interface to create an object. How? Using a feature in the C# compiler for COM-interop support: using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { IFoo
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Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:18 PM

Visual Studio disappears when creating a Silverlight 3 Application

I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight 3 tools on the laptop I’m writing this post on. Ten minutes ago I was trying to create a new Silverlight 3 application through the New Project Dialog and after creating the project Visual Studio just disappeared
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Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:58 PM

5 min. screencast: Live Geometry overview

Microsoft sponsored a usability study for my side project Live Geometry , and I have to say, it was awesome. It was a lot of fun watching the participants using the software and I got a ton of great and useful feedback. I have to confess, I didn’t realize
Posted by Kirill Osenkov | 27 Comments
 
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