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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:13 PM

Goodbye!

After 4½ wonderful years here at Microsoft, I have decided it is time for a change, and am going to pursue my career outside the company. This was a tough decision, since Microsoft is a great company to work for and I have learnt a lot here, had great
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:55 PM

LinkFromDomain and tips for authoring Macros

Andy Edmonds has an excellent post up on the Live Search blog about the new LinkFromDomain operator offered by Live Search, and how you can use it and other search operators to craft interesting and useful Search Macros . As Andy explains, the LinkFromDomain
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Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:48 AM

Search Macros V2 is Live!

As some of you must have noticed, the new Live Search shipped a couple of weeks back, and last week, became the service that replaces what used to be MSN Search as well. The new service offers a bunch of improvements and new features over both MSN Search
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Friday, May 19, 2006 1:51 AM

Mike Harsh talks about WPF/E on Channel 9

If you were at MIX'06 or the last PDC, you have probably heard of WPF/E (or WPF/Everywhere), which is a technology to support rendering a subset of XAML cross-platform and cross-browser. Well, here's your chance to find out more about it - Mike Harsh
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Friday, May 12, 2006 2:28 AM

MIX06 sessions available online

In case you missed this announcement - videos of all the MIX06 sessions, including Bill Gates' keynote, have been made available online. If you missed the conference, you may find it interesting to view a few of the sessions. Specifically, here is a link
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Friday, May 05, 2006 1:22 AM

Busy week for Windows Live!

Wow, lots of Windows Live related news this week: 1) The live.com team released an update just a few hours ago. Great to see they have addressed some of the top complaints/feature requests! My own favorites are (1) when you issue a search from the toolbar
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Friday, April 21, 2006 12:53 AM

Visual Studio Express will be free permanently!

Great news - it was annouced a couple of days back that Visual Studio Express , originally offered free for one year, will now be free permanently! Haven't heard of Express products before? Read this FAQ . Not only are the Express products free, they
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:39 AM

Using Live.com as a Search Page

I have always felt there is a fundamental distinction between a 'search page' and a 'home page'. A search page should be very fast, have a prominent search box and no other content to distract me from doing my search. A home page, on the other hand, should
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:25 AM

Got any cool Search Macro ideas?

In last Friday's update to Windows Live Search, we released the ability to create and manage your own search macros . Now is your chance to create and show off your own personal search engine! It is very simple to create a macro (you don't need to be
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Monday, March 20, 2006 11:38 PM

MIX '06 Day 1

Bill Gates kicked off the MIX 06 conference today in Las Vegas with his keynote. Some of the goodies announced today were a new build of IE7 , the release of Atlas and a new Windows Live developer center . Well, the conference has just started - look
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Friday, March 17, 2006 12:45 AM

Who is linking to my website?

It turns out very few people are aware of advanced search operators provided by all the major search engines. Fewer still actually bother to use them. However, in certain situations, they tend to be very handy. If I want to find out who is linking to
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:16 PM

Windows Live Search - Macros

The Windows Live Search Beta launch yesterday gives me an opportunity to write my first post on search, since moving to the search team back in November. This release has many highlights, including a new UI featuring infinite scroll and a snazzy new image
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Friday, February 10, 2006 1:14 AM

Channel 9 videos are great fun!

Wow, first post in a long time, and the first in 2006! Since switching teams back in November, I have been settling down into my new team and was then on vacation for a while, so didn't get a chance to post. Well, we have a bunch of cool stuff coming
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Saturday, December 10, 2005 2:00 PM

Client Settings FAQ updated

I finally got around to updating my FAQ on the settings feature in .NET 2.0. Look for ' Update: 12/10/2005 ' to identify the new content. The new stuff is mostly some questions frequently asked on forums and internal mailing lists in Microsoft around
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:30 PM

Saving out a Form's Size and Location using the Application Settings feature

A very common requirement for Windows Forms applications is the ability to 'remember' the location and size of forms when they are closed, so that the next time they are shown, they can be restored to the former position. The Application Settings feature
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