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Customize a Windows Phone 7 Live Tile
Windows Phone 7 “Mango” adds a lot of great new features to Live Tiles. An app can now...
Date: 08/30/2011
Hello Windows Phone OS (codenamed “Mango”)
Perhaps you’ve heard already about Windows Phone OS (codenamed “Mango”)? Here is a...
Date: 04/13/2011
Windows 7 slate PCs Part 2
Last time, I gave some motivation and context for this series and discussed a couple of...
Date: 03/18/2011
Windows 7 slate PCs Part 1
I’ve been working on these things quite a bit … We call them “slates” … specifically Windows...
Date: 03/16/2011
Access to Windows Phone 7 Camera Roll from a Silverlight App …
Or “Why is my RootPictureAlbum null?” Download the code for this example. In order to get...
Date: 01/28/2011
Outlook 2010 Plain Text Folder …
Download Source A customer asked me recently “I would like to see a plain text version of selected...
Date: 01/02/2011
Cloud Economics … You’re Fired!
We just published a great paper on the Economics of the Cloud. It does a very thorough...
Date: 12/08/2010
Why does your Windows Phone 7 app need access to my phone calls?
If you’ve been playing around in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace or downloading apps to your...
Date: 11/08/2010
Windows Phone 7 Development Tools RTM …
If you’ve been using the beta tools to develop for Windows Phone 7, you’ve had to do...
Date: 09/16/2010
Do you know about Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System?
MAVIS uses speech-recognition to enable searching audio and video content. You can check it...
Date: 09/01/2010
Categorizing the Cloud Part 2: Where does my business fit?
Last time we discussed various categorizations of the cloud and determined that there were three...
Date: 08/25/2010
Categorizing the Cloud …
I’ve been thinking about the Cloud a lot lately. I’ve also been talking to a lot of customers...
Date: 08/16/2010
Some Windows Phone 7 Previews …
Some interesting and in-depth WP7 Previews hit the wire today. Check them out!...
Date: 07/19/2010
Absolutely No Excuse!
We work in a field populated by brilliant people. But, like any field, it is also populated by...
Date: 06/09/2010
Hello World v.s. the Twitter App
I’ve been to two separate technology demonstrations lately wherein the presenter has eschewed the...
Date: 06/07/2010
Do you know about Seadragon?
Seadragon enables smooth browsing of images as well as Deep Zoom experiences. It’s the power...
Date: 06/03/2010
Do you know about SkyDrive?
Over the past few days, I have done a completely unscientific survey about SkyDrive. This test...
Date: 06/02/2010
Trusting your gut …
I’ve worked with a lot of guys with gray hair in my career. And by “guys with gray hair”, I...
Date: 05/27/2010
Set specific port for ASP.NET Development Server …
Just a quick tip … if you get tired of the ASP.NET Development Server (the HTTP Server...
Date: 05/26/2010
Good Azure sites …
Check out AzureScope. It’s got some good best practices, benchmarks and some small code...
Date: 05/25/2010
MSDN Looks Different (Who Moved My Cheese?)
I’ve recently been having a Who Moved My Cheese issue with MSDN. Pages seem to have a new...
Date: 05/10/2010
Do you know about Photosynth?
I didn’t until a friend pointed it out to me at the Web 2.0 Expo today. Photosynth let’s you...
Date: 05/05/2010
Some tools I highly recommend …
All are free or relatively inexpensive (the ones with a license fee are well worth it). Most...
Date: 05/04/2010
Do you know about the Visual Studio Extension Manager?
I didn’t until I saw the great Scott Hanselman talk about it during DevDays 10 NL. It’s under...
Date: 05/03/2010
Architecture Explorer and DGML videos ...
Check out these videos on DGML and the Architecture Explorer. Really well done and informative.
Date: 05/02/2010
Bay.NET User Group
I attended a meeting of the Bay.NET User Group last night. There were some great lightning...
Date: 04/22/2010
Azure Skittles Part 5
Last time, we got our Worker Role pulling from our Queue. Now, let’s take a look at debugging and...
Date: 04/20/2010
Azure Skittles Part 4
Last time, we got our worker role up and running. This time, we will feed him. WPF Application We...
Date: 04/20/2010
Azure Skittles Part 3
Last time, we got our service up and running. This time we will jump in and write some code. Web...
Date: 04/20/2010
Azure Skittles Part 2
Last time, we did all the setup work necessary to get our Azure Skittles project up and running....
Date: 04/20/2010
Azure Skittles Part 1
This skittles game is a very simple walkthrough of creating and debugging a Windows Azure...
Date: 04/20/2010
Passion for Technology
It’s important in life to have a passion for what you do. Passion for your craft forms a guiding...
Date: 04/20/2010
Learn. Teach. Share.
I love to learn. That’s why I’m here. Every day I am learning about technology and the...
Date: 04/20/2010
Introduction
I’m a new employee at Microsoft. I live in Northern California with my wife, my two kids and my...
Date: 04/20/2010