Brett Robinson's Blog

Brett Robinson's Technical blog at Microsoft

ATI driver and windows 10

This is kind of a reminder for me as well as maybe something that can help others also. My computer...

Date: 11/24/2015

Basic application with Silverlight for Windows Embedded 6.0 R3

I installed CE 6.0 R3 on my laptop when it was initially released and had created an application...

Date: 07/28/2010

Silverlight for Windows Embedded Team Blog is live

We have just released Windows Compact 7 CTP which includes the latest release of Silverlight for...

Date: 07/14/2010

Windows Embedded CE6 R3 released including Silverlight for Windows Embedded

The project I've been working on since my last blog posts has finally been released! There is some...

Date: 09/23/2009

Sharepoint : page level permissions

Thought I would share out this quick tip on how to define page level permissions on a sharepoint...

Date: 04/24/2009

Microsoft Social Bookmarking

The team I used to work on (and my last contributions there) just launched today. It is Microsoft's...

Date: 05/28/2008

Goodbye managed, hello again native

Well, I've moved teams to the Windows Embedded team, so the content of my blog will most likely...

Date: 05/15/2008

Override javascript method in Microsoft Ajax Library

If you would like to override a method in javascript that uses the Microsoft Ajax Library (such as...

Date: 02/28/2008

New release of MSDN/TechNet Search, Profile and Forums

The team I'm working on just released our latest version of MSDN/TechNet Search, Profile and Forums....

Date: 02/15/2008

Fill server cache with a large data object and have the browser be responsive by using threads

Recently I was working on a problem, and after testing the solution I thought it would make a good...

Date: 11/27/2007

Casting with Linq

I've been working with Linq lately and thought I would post 2 examples on casting with Linq. Most of...

Date: 08/31/2007

Model View Presenter - with base functionality

Lately I've been doing a lot of research and development around patterns and unit testing. One...

Date: 08/07/2007

Be a Silverlight DJ - with my Silverlight Alpha 1.1 sample

I wanted to get my hands dirty with Silverlight Alpha 1.1 and so I decided to make a DJ table with...

Date: 05/23/2007

Quick tip for deploying ASP.NET Ajax to a web farm

If you are having issues with your ASP.NET Ajax application after you deployed it in a web farm and...

Date: 05/15/2007

Sandcastle Target File (using March CTP)

I've been working on building MSDN style documents for my assemblies and wanted to automate this...

Date: 05/03/2007

MSDN and TechNet Search Updated

The team I am working on just finished a re-write of MSDN and TechNet search. The MSDN and TechNet...

Date: 04/18/2007

Componentizing Silverlight - what I consider best practices

I was looking at a post on Mike Harsh's blog about a utility that turns XAML into javascript and I...

Date: 04/18/2007

Get at the ASP.NET Ajax control name with the BehaviorID property

If you have ever worked with ASP.NET and binding data to a repeater control or placing content...

Date: 03/01/2007

WPF/E, ASP.NET AJAX and Web Services - hooking it all together

Recently I've been working with WPF/E and extending some code that I have to make it more visually...

Date: 01/25/2007

Generate class from xsd.exe Visual Studio Add-In

I was using an XML file to generate a cs class for a project I was working on and everytime I...

Date: 11/03/2006

Finally an XML Editor and transformation tool

I saw today that Microsoft released an XML editor (even though it looks like it was released on...

Date: 10/27/2006

Using MSBuild to write a build tool

While re-writing the team's build tool I have come across some strengths and weaknesses of using...

Date: 10/17/2006

Welcome to my Microsoft Blog

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Date: 08/04/2006