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COMmunism: Sharing your Apartment

Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:14 PM by marcmill
The advent of neutral COM objects introduces the interesting consequence that your thread might have to share an apartment. This means that if you assume all asynchronous calls into your thread are on the same apartment, you probably have a subtle bug. Read More...
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ML is ALSO Love

Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:42 AM by marcmill
( Don Box wrote an article in this month's MSDN Magazine called " Scheme Is Love " in which he did a brief whirlwind tour of the Scheme programming language.) Back when gas was only $3 a gallon, if you wanted a programming language with anonymous types Read More...
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Custom Schema on the PDC05 Handout Build

Posted Monday, September 19, 2005 6:43 PM by marcmill
The API for adding custom schema isn't supported yet on the builds handed out at the PDC. So, how was I able to demonstrate custom schemas in my PRS310 talk? I've had a request to make public how I was able to go about doing this in lieu of the schema Read More...
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PDC05 Takeaways on Programming Explorer

Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 4:14 PM by marcmill
Flying back to Redmond, I jot down some of the key things I consistently heard from developers, in no particular order: "We want more/better command module extensibility." The term "command module" here refers to that toolbar that goes across the top Read More...
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Will I be able to read my new C# Code?

Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:02 PM by marcmill
As a fan of languages like ML, I'm really excited about the new features in C# 3.0 that have been announced in this PDC. But one thing that always concerned me about great swathes of ML code was the readability of that code. If I’m working in a function Read More...
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How do I do that with my file types?

Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:10 AM by marcmill
In his PDC keynote demo, Chris Capossela showed off some of Windows Vista's exciting new features for managing the ever-growing sets of data that people will have with PC's moving forward. He showed visualization features like thumbnails, search features Read More...
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Learn More about Programming Windows Vista Search & Organize on Channel 9

Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:20 PM by marcmill
A couple of weeks ago, a couple of my colleagues and I sat down with Robert Scoble and Catherine Heller to talk about Programming Windows Vista Search and Organize. That interview was posted this morning and you can find it here . Read More...
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Indexer Internals: What is the System Schema?

Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 7:41 PM by marcmill
When considering whether to extend the system schema, you should consider whether your extensions are actually necessary given the hundreds of properties that already ship with Windows Vista. You can view the schema as the indexer understands it by looking Read More...
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PDC05 Fashion

Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 3:26 AM by marcmill
I once attended a talk given by Paul Allen in which he described how he would routinely visit with Microsoft's most important customers wearing a t-shirt and some shorts. I remember first coming to Microsoft as an intern and standing in line at the cafeteria Read More...
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Come to PRS310

Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 12:56 AM by marcmill
In my PDC 2005 talk, PRS310, I'll be discussing ways developers can expose their data sources to the Windows Vista Explorer so they can participate in the full storage user experience: searching, stacking, property viewing and editing, "live icon" thumbnails, Read More...
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