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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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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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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, 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, March 13, 2007 6:37 PM

April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine now online

The April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/04 . Enjoy!
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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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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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Monday, December 18, 2006 11:27 AM

UnauthorizedAccessException in PDF Preview Handler

For my article on preview handlers in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , I wrote a sample preview handler for previewing PDF files. This allows you to view PDF files in Outlook and in the Vista shell just as you would other document types for which
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:57 AM

Preview Handler Association Editor

I received an email from MSDN Magazine subscriber Oren Novotny thanking me for my preview handler article in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine . Oren also wondered whether a tool could be written to make it easy to edit preview handler registrations
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:41 AM

January 2007 MSDN Magazine now online

As announced over on the MSDN Magazine blog , the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01 .
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Monday, October 16, 2006 9:05 AM

MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Starting with the November 2006 issue, MSDN Magazine is now available online in seven languages! This includes English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. Want to read the November issue in Russian ? How about
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