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Monday, July 31, 2006 9:28 AM

Sandcastle July 2006 CTP Available for Download

Seems like just yesterday (okay, almost yesterday) that I blogged about the imminent availability of the Sandcastle documentation compiler. Well, you can already download the Sandcastle July 2006 CTP . It's also worth visiting the Sandcastle blog to read
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Friday, July 28, 2006 12:25 AM

Photosynth, WPF Performance, and Sandcastle

Three completely unrelated items that are worth your attention... First, if you want to see an extremely innovative application that takes vast photo collections (whether they're your photos or not), automatically figures out how they relate to each other,
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:07 PM

Atlas and the 2006 World Series of Poker!?

Steve Marx is a geek! And yes, I mean that as a compliment. I introduced Steve back in June as our new "Atlas" Technical Evangelist. If you read that post, you may recall that he came in 35th in the 2005 World Series of Poker , a fact that will prevent
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:40 PM

Free MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions in the U.S.

First, Stephen Toub reminds everyone that if you have a MSDN Premium subscription and you live in the United States, you can get a free subscription to MSDN Magazine by following a few simple steps: go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions , sign-in
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:34 PM

Three Hot Dell XPS M1710 Laptops to Give Away

Knew I'd get your attention with that title. This post is an exercise in personal transparency...transparency in the hopes that if you know I have three of these Dell XPS M1710 powerhouses to award as prizes, you'll bombard me with e-mail until I get
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Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:38 AM

Use the Dell XPS LEDs to Monitor Your Build Status

Nearly two years ago, while I was still working for Microsoft Consulting Services in the field, I posted my article on Automated Continuous Integration and the Ambient Orb™ . It's one of my most popular posts, and I still receive comments and questions
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:40 PM

Virtual PC, FolderShare, and Sysinternals

I'm risking it again...three completely different topics in a single post! For those with a weak heart, please turn away now. Otherwise... If you haven't heard yet, Virtual PC is now free , and you can download the 2004 edition now. If you haven't played
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Friday, July 14, 2006 11:11 PM

New Widescreen Wallpaper and Posters

This past November, I stopped posting individual blog entries whenever I added new images to my wallpaper collection. Well, it's been about nine months now, and I thought I'd remind everyone that the Wallpaper Images page is alive and well, and 14 new
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Friday, July 14, 2006 4:24 PM

XAML: Behind the Scenes

No, we're not announcing anything called JMAX today. Although if we were, I wonder what it would stand for? The graphic is meant to imply a "behind the scenes" look at XAML. You can probably tell that I'm not a designer. :-) Tim Sneath has an excellent
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Friday, July 14, 2006 2:24 PM

Cataract Surgery

About two years ago, when I still lived in Michigan, my optometrist thought he noticed "something" in my right eye. After consulting with a second optometrist in the same office, they both concluded that I might have the start of a cataract. It was still
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Monday, July 03, 2006 7:38 PM

Convert LightWave 3D Files to XAML

Hooray! Here's another 3D format that can now be converted to XAML for use with WPF. Richard Godfrey has been working with Michael Stocking, Mark Hennessy-Barrett , Alex Young, and Steve Kennett to produce the freely-available ShaxamWeb LightWave to XAML
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Monday, July 03, 2006 6:41 PM

CSS-Like Visual Styling for Windows Forms

Infragistics has released some new technology that allows developers to easily apply visual styles to any Windows Forms application with a single line of code. They provide a tool called NetAdvantage AppStylist that enables designers to interactively
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