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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:43 PM

.NET Matters: Stream Pipeline

My latest .NET Matters column in MSDN Magazine is now available online . In it, I discuss one approach to implementing a BlockingStream and using it to implement a StreamPipeline class.
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Friday, November 30, 2007 5:51 PM

Parallel Extensions CTP!

For those of you who haven't heard, we released a CTP of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. You can download it here , and you can learn more about it in the new Parallel Computing dev center on MSDN, as well as from the Parallel Extensions
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:07 PM

.NET Matters: Debugging finalizers

My latest .NET Matters in MSDN Magazine is now online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/NETMatters/default.aspx
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 7:51 PM

.NET Matters: Deadlock Monitor

My latest .NET Matters in MSDN Magazine is now online here . In it, I discuss what deadlocks are and ways to detect them when using monitors.
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:52 PM

Fun with DVR-MS (now on my blog)

Several years ago, I wrote an article for MSDN on programming against the DVR-MS file format. I'm very pleased with how well the article was received, and to this day I get a lot of people writing to me about the article. Unfortunately, recently the article
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:02 PM

Latest column online: Tales from the CryptoRandom

It's been a while since I've added to this blog; been very busy with some really cool stuff at work (more about that soon). In the meantime, my latest .NET Matters column in MSDN Magazine is now online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/09/NETMatters/default.aspx
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:38 AM

Updated Media Center "Time Travel" article for Windows Vista

Several months ago I updated my "Time Travel with Windows Media Center" article to be based on Windows Vista rather than on Windows XP. It's now online! If you're interested in writing background add-ins for Media Center, check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643809.aspx
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:02 PM

Handling window messages in console apps

If you've ever wondered how to handle window messages in .NET console applications, check out my latest .NET Matters column in the June 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , which just went online an hour or so ago.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:45 PM

Code samples from DevConnections talk

Thanks to everyone who attended my talks yesterday at DevConnections. For those of you who were at the talk on using managed code to access some of the native-only APIs in Vista, you can get the code samples I used for the demos here . The slides from
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:14 PM

DllPreviewHandler for Windows Vista

At DevConnections this week, I wanted to demonstrate how easy it can be to write preview handlers for Windows Vista. Using the framework I created for my article in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , I whipped up this little guy: [PreviewHandler("MSDN
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:17 PM

Improving a Graphics Application with Tablet APIs

In May 2006, I wrote a small digital imaging application to produce what I like to call the "Pleasantville" effect. If you've seen the movie, you can probably guess what I mean. An image will be mostly grayscale, but certain aspects of the image, either
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Friday, February 16, 2007 12:04 AM

Update to PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor for Vista x64

John Robbins emailed me tonight to let me know that he found a bug with my PreviewHandlerAssociatedEditor tool with Vista running on x64. The tool first looks in the registry to see what handlers are available, and then it looks at all classes/extensions
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Friday, February 02, 2007 1:54 PM

Code for PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor

I've had several requests for the code for the PreviewHandlerAssociationEditor tool I put up a few weeks back to accompany my MSDN Magazine article on preview handlers . I've updated the download to include the source for the project. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:43 PM

Position Changer Add-In updated for Media Center in Windows Vista

Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 . As part of that article, I implemented an add-in that made it easy to jump around in a recorded TV show, video, or music file using the
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Monday, December 18, 2006 5:09 PM

Error 2869 when installing preview handlers MSI

If you're getting an error with error code 2869 when installing the sample preview handlers associated with my preview handler article from the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , make sure you're following the directions in the README file. Open a
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