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Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:30 AM

Office 2003 Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies

I can't even begin to explain how happy I am that we recently released the Office 2003 PIA download . Why am I excited? Just read this and you will understand. I've known about this for a while but I had to keep my mouth shut :-). Not being able to install
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Saturday, March 19, 2005 8:14 PM

Programming Mac vs Windows

David Weller discusses what it's like to program on a Mac. Back when I was a Mac user, I desperately wanted to write some programs. The barrier to entry was huge. I didn't know C++, didn't know Java, and still don't know Objective C (and don't care to
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:34 AM

Send to SmugMug

I love SmugMug so much I wanted a really easy way to get my pictures from my hard drive to SmugMug . Enter Send to SmugMug . This application will install a little entry in your contextual menu for folder that says... "Send to SmugMug". When you select
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Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:38 PM

Windows Indexing Service + ASP.NET = CannotDebug

Agrhhhhh! This is why I hate computers sometimes. Based on this post that I saw a few days ago I enabled the Indexing Service on Windows XP. Well all of a sudden I started getting: Parser Error Message: Access is denied: [name of .dll here] When debugging
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 4:30 AM

MovableType Blacklist for .NET

As I promised , here is the code for the MovableType Blacklist that I wrote for dasBlog. There are three pieces to it: the IBlackList interface The MovableTypeBlacklist class The Factory Class that holds an instance of the MovableTypeBlacklist and the
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Friday, January 14, 2005 4:18 AM

Programming Teaches

Sometimes I wonder if I was supposed to be a programmer. My job at Microsoft does not require that I write any code... that's not what Program Managers do. Instead I do all sorts of other stuff, but I enjoy it a great deal. However, sometimes all the
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Monday, January 10, 2005 9:26 AM

Referral Spam and Movable Type Blacklist

Well, just in time for a wave of referral spam that is hitting my blog (mostly from http://www.ownsthis.com ) I spent part of today writing a class that can consume the Movable Type Blacklist . The class will allow you to download this file from the server
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Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:37 AM

Nullable Types

I'm pretty excited about Nullable Types in Whidbey. The primary reason I care about this is that in my PhotoLibrary (library that exposes EXIF properties of a picture) has lot of value types like int. One neat thing about the class is that using something
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:11 AM

Dying Thread on Trackbacks, Referrals and Pingbacks

Part 2 of 2 Bug 2: TrackingHandler Thread Dies Another problem that Scott Hanselman informed me of was that he would frequently stop receiving Trackbacks, Pingbacks and Referrals on his posts. Furthermore, it was intermittent. This was troubling since
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:29 AM

DateTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

Recently I found the answer to two very hard questions about bugs in dasBlog. They were kinda tricky to figure out, but also really interesting (bug 2 will be in a follow up post) Bug 1: DateTime.ToString() One of the classes in dasBlog that stores information
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:42 AM

When ReleaseComObject is necessary in Outlook

Some might tell you that you never need to call Marhal.ReleaseComObject when writing managed code in Outlook. Well there are two very specific situations in which you must call RCO or else you will encounter problems. They are: You create toolbar buttons
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Sunday, December 05, 2004 8:26 PM

CleanSources

A while ago I lamented that the “Clean Project” button in VS.NET did nothing for .NET projects. I thought that it would be nice to have something that would empty the bin, obj, and setup folders of crusty stuff, or just nuke it if you plan on zipping
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Friday, December 03, 2004 5:28 PM

Programming iTunes vs WMP in .NET

I find it creepy that it's a million times easier to write managed code against iTunes than Windows Media Player. That just seems wrong. A few weeks ago when I was playing with the iRiver H320 I wanted to sync meta data from WMP to the iRiver so that
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Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:44 PM

.NET Compact Framework Essentials

One very frustrating thing about programming with the .NET Compact Framework is that it's quite limited in how much integration capabilities you have with the device. It's very good if you build a little application that doesn't need to hook into the
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:00 PM

System.Drawing.Imaging performance fix in .NET 1.1 SP1

A few months ago I encountered a significant performance problem with System.Drawing.Imaging . I found that by using the new Method performance was 93x faster (on average) for loading jpegs. You can download the update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8f5654f-088e-40b2-bbdb-a83353618b38&DisplayLang=en
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