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On my guest appearance on the Personal Computer Radio Show last week, one of the callers was concerned that he could not search for files in a given date range on Windows Vista. He claimed this feature was available in XP, but not in Vista. I checked
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you’ve probably heard about the beta of the upcoming version of Windows, Windows 7 . No breaking news here (I hope). However, now that I’ve been running 7 myself the past couple of weeks, I thought
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Back when Silverlight 1.1 (the predecessor to today’s Silverlight 2 release ) was first announced at the Mix ‘07 keynote , I remember being fascinated by the cross-platform .NET Framework aspect of it. As a cross-platform browser plug-in, Silverlight
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Silverlight 2 Fire Starter event in New York City on September 13th . I had a great time helping organize the event and speaking with many of the attendees about Silverlight. There were over 150 folks who made it out
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Thanks to everyone who attended my talk about the new ASP.NET MVC framework at the Health & Life Sciences Developer Conference in Atlantic City last week! I've posted my slides for viewing up on SkyDrive: Credit goes to Scott Hanselman as I
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There's been a lot of fuss about the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista. A recent story even made headlines when a Microsoft manager was quoted as saying Microsoft deliberately deigned UAC to "annoy users". I've
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If you read my blog via its actual web site, you probably noticed some changes yesterday. After a while of planning and slowly putting the pieces into place behind the scenes, I finally completed an upgrade to the look-n-feel of my blog. For
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When folks hear that I work for Microsoft, the first question I'm often asked is, "What do you do for them?" When I tell them that I am a Developer Evangelist, it leads to even more questions. "Evangelist?! What type of
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Last year at the Mix conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft surprised the web world with the announcement of Silverlight 1.1 which supports the .NET framework running cross-platform in the browser! Mix 08 is coming up soon during the first week of March.
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"Tables or Divs?" It's a classic question in the web development world, sort of like "boxers or briefs?" There is a mailing list that all of the Microsoft Regional Directors belong to. Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent
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Last year at the AJAX Experience conference in Boston, all of the attendees received an iPod shuffle as part of the swag package. I have four media players I rotate between: a Zune, the iPod shuffle, an iRiver T30, and an old Creative Nomad Zen. I love
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So it's been almost a month since the big Silverlight announcements from Microsoft at Mix 07 in Vegas. My crazy month of travel in May is just about over (one quick short trip with the family to Tech E--, uh, Disney this weekend, and then I should be
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Back in the 80's, GM had an advertising campaign for it's Oldsmobile line of cars called "This is not your father's Oldsmobile". Oldsmobile had kind of a stodgy reputation for being the cars that old people drove. Heck, my grandfather had one! GM wanted
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Okay okay... so for all those Windows users with Mac jealousy, now you can have the fancy icon bar with animations too. Check out Rocket Dock. It's free, and it works well. http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock So far, so good. My only complaint is that
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A while back, I wrote about migrating from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 . I wrote that post almost a year ago, but it is still one of my highest traffic posts to this date. Well, it's been a good 6 months now since .NET 3.0 has been on the scene, yet I haven't
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