See what I see.
The ramblings of Kristopher Makey.
Playing with Genetics
Genetic Algorithms that is: I've been toying with the ideas related to adaptive...
Date: 09/03/2010
The subtle scent of change still wafting in the air.
So It’s been nearly four years at Microsoft here for me. I’ve had a great tenure working on...
Date: 05/08/2010
Looking to the future, anticipating the next version of VSTO.
As we start to see that hazy object that is the “next version” of VSTO coalesce into an actual...
Date: 01/22/2010
Where did my permission set controls go?
I’m going to diverge a bit off the VSTO path and talk about a more generic ClickOnce story. If you...
Date: 05/20/2009
Enterprise Level Deployment of VSTO Solutions: Deployment Design
It's been a while, I'm not really interested in going to the details of why at the moment, lets dig...
Date: 04/08/2009
VS 2008 SP1 and VSTO, why you should be seriously considering installation.
I'm not going to go into detail about everything in the VS 2008 SP1 package, but what I would like...
Date: 10/03/2008
A day at the movies.
It's been quiet. I've been super busy with a lot of things. Some things I can talk about...
Date: 09/02/2008
In the Before of the Beginning: Custom Prerequisites for VSTO ClickOnce (part II).
In my last post I talked about the first steps to building my Customer Prerequisite. In it, I...
Date: 07/30/2008
In the Before of the Beginning: Custom Prerequisites for VSTO ClickOnce (part I).
In January I talked about using Custom Prerequisites to add a little more specialization to the VSTO...
Date: 07/18/2008
MSI VSTO Deployment revealed
For the past couple of months I have been avoiding talking too much on this blog about about...
Date: 06/09/2008
One-Shot customizations, but we're not VBA.
Last week I had the pleasure of getting some very interesting feedback from some of the Microsoft...
Date: 04/22/2008
Click-Once forced updates in VSTO II: A fuller solution
Last Week I talked about user-generated updates and the Click-Once Deployment Management...
Date: 04/18/2008
Click-Once forced updates in VSTO: Some things we don't recommend using, that you might consider anyway.
Before I go any further in this post I'm going to put a huge disclaimer: You should be warned...
Date: 04/10/2008
VSTO 3.0 and .NET 3.5
From time to time I will come across (via various channels) a question of why VSTO 3.0 requires the...
Date: 03/20/2008
If memory serves me correctly...
Memory is king and he who remembers the most rules will rule the most (not a real quote but it...
Date: 03/07/2008
Delaying the inevitable.
Just a micro update: Ade Miller has an excellent post on how to delay sign vsto dll's. You can see...
Date: 03/04/2008
Words and more words and words... on Word.
Generally I talk about vsto deployment here, this is mainly due to the simple limitation that what I...
Date: 02/29/2008
Power to the People.
I have some excellent news for any VSTO developers out there. We've released the first set of Power...
Date: 02/21/2008
Delayed.
I'm not prepared to talk about anything interesting this week. I've been busy with several things...
Date: 02/09/2008
Being Pushy with VSTO ClickOnce
The other day I was in a meeting and it was mentioned that the new VSTO Deployment model didn't...
Date: 02/01/2008
Searches.
If you got to this page you were probably searching on some of the following phrases: VSTO,...
Date: 01/24/2008
Starting and Putting
Because of the complexity and depth that installation stories can have it seems like it is very easy...
Date: 01/24/2008
A little more about Kris.
A dose of intent: In general I don't want to cover a lot about myself directly in the blog entries....
Date: 01/17/2008
Searching for that special thing and some other hints.
I haven't talked much about what I do here at Microsoft. To be honest I'm not going to go too far...
Date: 01/17/2008
Miscellaneous things.
I don't have a over arching theme for this post. This last week has been a little strange in pace...
Date: 01/11/2008
Returns and Specialization
It seems like it’s the season of returns. I’ve returned from Idaho which is where I was returned the...
Date: 01/03/2008
My trusted secret inner circle.
Before I jump right in, I want to give some major credit to the author of the MSDN articles that...
Date: 12/19/2007
The passphrase is "Install already": A new look at VSTO Security.
I've tried to start this post about ten times now, and honestly, the problem is that it's a little...
Date: 12/16/2007
Untangling the Terminology
Originally I was planning on jumping right into some gory details about security model when I...
Date: 12/16/2007
Prospectus, Manifesto, Meaning and Intent.
Welcome to my blog. First, an initial introduction: My name is Kristopher Makey, though typically I...
Date: 12/14/2007