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Raghavendra Prabhu
Goodbye!
After 4½ wonderful years here at Microsoft, I have decided it is time for a change, and am going to...
Date: 02/21/2007
LinkFromDomain and tips for authoring Macros
Andy Edmonds has an excellent post up on the Live Search blog about the new LinkFromDomain operator...
Date: 10/17/2006
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,...
Date: 09/16/2006
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...
Date: 05/19/2006
MIX06 sessions available online
In case you missed this announcement - videos of all the MIX06 sessions, including Bill Gates'...
Date: 05/12/2006
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...
Date: 05/05/2006
Visual Studio Express will be free permanently!
Great news - it was annouced a couple of days back that Visual Studio Express, originally offered...
Date: 04/21/2006
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...
Date: 04/04/2006
Got any cool Search Macro ideas?
In last Friday's update to Windows Live Search, we released the ability to create and manage your...
Date: 03/28/2006
MIX '06 Day 1
Bill Gates kicked off the MIX 06 conference today in Las Vegas with his keynote. Some of the goodies...
Date: 03/21/2006
Who is linking to my website?
It turns out very few people are aware of advanced search operators provided by all the major search...
Date: 03/17/2006
Windows Live Search - Macros
The Windows Live Search Beta launch yesterday gives me an opportunity to write my first post on...
Date: 03/10/2006
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...
Date: 02/10/2006
Client Settings FAQ updated
I finally got around to updating my FAQ on the settings feature in .NET 2.0. Look for 'Update:...
Date: 12/10/2005
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...
Date: 11/29/2005
Whidbey Launch, Live.com and Me
Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since my last post. Time does fly by. Well, a lot has...
Date: 11/08/2005
I have heard of the BSoD - what's a WSoD?
If you have used the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 2005 enough, chances are you may have...
Date: 08/11/2005
Client Settings FAQ posted
We have been getting lots of feedback on the new Whidbey Settings feature that I have blogged about...
Date: 06/29/2005
Client Settings FAQ
One of the cool new features in .NET 2.0/VS 2005 is an easy to use, extensible API to manage...
Date: 06/29/2005
Brief encounter with Channel 9
At a recent component vendor dev lab on campus, I ran into Charles Torre of Channel 9 and we spent a...
Date: 05/11/2005
Generated by a tool?
[Update: This is a repost of a post I made on Friday 5/6, since the original post was lost due to a...
Date: 05/10/2005
Why doesn't my TypeConverter get called?
Consider the following code: public class MyControl : Control {...
Date: 04/25/2005
Do you really need a custom CodeDomSerializer?
When you author a new component for .NET for which you want to offer a smooth user experience within...
Date: 03/16/2005
WinRes: Improvements in Whidbey
One of the first posts I made, after starting this blog, was about WinRes, a UI localization tool...
Date: 02/18/2005
Win32 <-> .NET API Mapping
This is another of those links that you simply must add to your favorites if you develop using .NET....
Date: 02/15/2005
Smart Client in focus again
Good to see that Soma's keynote at VSLive! San Francisco brings the concept of 'smart client' back...
Date: 02/09/2005
Worldwide response to Tsunami
The Tsunami disaster in Asia has been a sad and tragic event, but I think one bright spot amidst it...
Date: 12/31/2004
How does the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio load a Form?
Here are a couple of questions we often get from developers who are new to Windows Forms: 1) The...
Date: 12/12/2004
Windows Forms and Avalon roadmap
If I am planning to write a Windows client application in the coming months, what technology should...
Date: 12/04/2004
Smart Client Developer Center reloaded
Check out the new and improved MSDN Smart Client Developer Center page - it is a great place to...
Date: 12/04/2004
Windows Forms Bug Reporting Challenge
Feels good to return to blogging after a long break! We in the developer division have been pretty...
Date: 11/22/2004
Impact of the MSDN Product Feedback Center
Its been quite a long time since my last blog post. We have been pretty busy over the last couple of...
Date: 10/06/2004
.NET Framework SPs now available on Windows Update
The final versions of .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and 1.0 SP3 are now available for download on Windows...
Date: 09/08/2004
Localization in Whidbey
Before I describe how Windows Forms localization works in Whidbey, let us first take a look at how...
Date: 08/04/2004
.NET Framework SPs - Tech Preview announced
Technical previews of .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and 1.0 SP3 are out. You can find links to download,...
Date: 07/08/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Beta!
It's finally out - Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1! Here are the relevant links: VS...
Date: 06/29/2004
Smart Client Developer Center
If you haven't seen it already, check out the Smart Client Developer Center on MSDN launched earlier...
Date: 06/28/2004
Client Settings - Part 3
RichB has some interesting questions in his comments about my earlier post on the client settings...
Date: 06/18/2004
Designer Hosting in Whidbey
If you have had a chance to play with Visual Studio Whidbey, you may have noticed some of the cool...
Date: 06/15/2004
Over 600 bloggers on blogs.msdn.com!
Wow - I just noticed the count of Microsoft bloggers on blogs.msdn.com alone has surpassed 600! And...
Date: 05/28/2004
Strongly typed resource model in Whidbey
In Visual Studio 2003 and earlier, managing resources like images and icons in your project is...
Date: 05/25/2004
Whidbey content on WindowsForms.net
If you haven't looked at it already, you may want to check out the new Whidbey section on...
Date: 05/24/2004
More bloggers from .Net Client
I just updated my post on fellow bloggers on the .Net Client team - we have two more! This is great...
Date: 05/21/2004
What's this new GenerateMember property?
If you have played with Whidbey builds of Visual Studio, you may have noticed this new property...
Date: 05/06/2004
New articles on Whidbey Windows Forms and ClickOnce
Nice overview of some of the new features in Windows Forms and ClickOnce (via Chris Sells' blog).
Date: 04/25/2004
Brian explains Components, Containers and Services
Brian blogs about the fundamental concepts of the .Net component model. The post is typical of Brian...
Date: 04/20/2004
How to create non-rectangular Windows Forms applications
Ever wanted to write an app with forms that have arbitrary shapes rather than the usual rectangular...
Date: 04/03/2004
Client Settings - Part 2
In a post a few months ago, I wrote about a new Whidbey feature called Client Settings. While we...
Date: 04/03/2004
Whidbey Community Preview is here!
Check out the new Visual Studio 2005 home page. If you are an MSDN subscriber, PDC/VSLive attendee...
Date: 03/26/2004
Why are the interop definitions in System.Windows.Forms internal?
In a comment on BradA's blog, Chris wonders why Windows Forms didn't expose the structures and...
Date: 03/25/2004