Noah Coad
A Microsoft Program Manager on Visual Studio Platform (and an underground coder, lifehacker, hockey player)
Farewell Microsoft
After three Visual Studio releases and five and a half years with Microsoft, I’m moving back to...
Date: 01/12/2010
Get Visual Studio Professional for Free (for Students and Small Businesses)
Microsoft wants you to be able to use the Professional version of its software development tools and...
Date: 11/12/2009
5 Years At Microsoft
Five years ago today I walked into Microsoft building 41 as green as the first day of college. ...
Date: 07/06/2009
Eject or Undock a Laptop PC from Command Line or C#
Took me awhile to find this, so it is worth sharing. If you have a computer (usually laptop,...
Date: 06/04/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Released
We just released VS2010 Beta 1 to the web for public download!! This is very exciting as my...
Date: 05/20/2009
1TB External USB HDD for $100
I was just browsing my favorite computer supplier, newegg.com, when I came across this awesome...
Date: 11/10/2008
Don't Vote
https://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832128 (tis the season…) (thanks to noah's mark)
Date: 10/08/2008
Delegate Type Inference in C#
Today I saw some C# language syntax that made me think, "hey, wait a minute, I didn't know you...
Date: 09/23/2008
RSS Feeds for eBay Searches
RSS feeds are popping up right and left these days for everything from news, to friends’ pictures,...
Date: 09/22/2008
Free iPod Nano from KeyBank
Update (9/4/08): Looks like KeyBank has ended this promotion by now. Who knows, maybe they’ll...
Date: 08/22/2008
ThinkGeek, Gadget Toy Love
What true geek doesn’t just love the site ThinkGeek.com? Where one can fulfill their gizmo,...
Date: 07/02/2008
Capturing One's "Stream of Consciousness" in OneNote
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Date: 06/25/2008
Embedded IE Text Size Too Small (or Large)
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Date: 06/23/2008
Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey
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Date: 06/15/2008
Best of YouTube
With all the video's being posted these days, it can be a lot of fun to go trolling through YouTube,...
Date: 06/02/2008
Awesome Screen Image + Video Capture with Jing
TechSmith, makers of my (up to now) favorite SnagIt and Camtasia have created the Jing Project, a...
Date: 05/30/2008
Pull Web Service Data into Excel
Visual Studio 2008 has great Office 2007 integration with the ability to essentially open an Excel...
Date: 04/16/2008
noahcoad wants to keep up with you on Twitter
I'm giving Twitter a try! What is Twitter? Simply put, it's short 140 character or less...
Date: 03/29/2008
Hard Drive Pricing Sweet Spot
Every 8-12 month I take a look at the going prices of hard drives as I'm looking to expand my...
Date: 03/10/2008
Speaking at TechEd 2008: VS 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks
My session entitled Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks has been accepted! ...
Date: 02/18/2008
Boycott Starbucks, Support Tully's
Simply put, Starbucks charges for their wireless Internet access, Tully's is completely free. ...
Date: 02/12/2008
Netflix Kills HD DVD
This is it, the final stake nailed in the HD DVD coffin. HD DVD has been on a sinking ship,...
Date: 02/11/2008
My Moo Cards
My Moo MiniCards arrived! I've been eyeing these little things for over a year now. ...
Date: 02/07/2008
Maze App in WPF
My colleague, Paul Harrington, has created a 3D maze in WPF (runs in the browser) that's certainly...
Date: 02/01/2008
Upcoming Sci-Fi Movies
This is a great quick list of the scifi movies in the pipeline. All sorts of great movies are...
Date: 01/04/2008
How-To-Geek Blog
This is one of my favorite new blogs, https://www.howtogeek.com/. It rocks with tons of great...
Date: 12/10/2007
Presidential Candidate Calculator
This is really cool! I'm not a big political guy and honestly haven't been keeping up with the...
Date: 12/10/2007
Free 411 Phone Directories
I used to call the 411 info number of my cell phone company (AT&T/Cingular) until they jacked...
Date: 12/05/2007
Parallel Computing for .NET CTP Released
The Parallel Computing Platform team has launched a new Parallel Computing Dev Center along with our...
Date: 11/29/2007
Visual Studio 2008 + .NET 3.5 is LIVE!
It's official! The product we've all be waiting for is released! It's been a fun ride, 2...
Date: 11/19/2007
Hannah Wins National Poster Contest
In 2003 my 5th grade sister Hannah Joy entered the Arbor Day National Poster Contest and took 1st at...
Date: 10/17/2007
Rising Above the Email Swarm
In today's age of receiving dozens to 100s of e-mails a day, quickly processing these is...
Date: 10/15/2007
Multi Monitor Support in VS10
What would a perfect world look like where your using Visual Studio with two or three (or more)...
Date: 10/10/2007
The Scientist
On my office door, thanks to https://xkcd.com/242/
Date: 09/24/2007
Keeping Up With Microsoft News
"How do you keep up with what's going on at Microsoft?" a student recently asked me. ...
Date: 09/23/2007
A Little LINQ
LINQ is out in strength and I've got to admit, even though I talked to Anders Hejlsberg over three...
Date: 09/10/2007
Can You Use Visual Studio as Your Text Editor?
Most developers I know (including myself) use at least two text editors on their box, a full blown...
Date: 09/06/2007
Visual Studio Macros
One of the areas I'm taking charge in Visual Studio is the Macro system. We want to make macros rock...
Date: 08/17/2007
Joined the Visual Studio Platform Team
In my pursuit of getting closer to the heart of our development tools, I've taken up a new position...
Date: 08/08/2007
Search Work Items is on CodePlex
Due to popular demand for community participation in further development, I've posted the Search...
Date: 07/17/2007
SnagIt + VSTS = Integration Love
TechSmith created a plugin for SnagIt that lets you take a screen capture and real quick create a...
Date: 07/09/2007
Backpacking Alaska Lake
Dawn and I went backpacking this past weekend to Alaska Lake, up the Gold Creek Trail in the Alpine...
Date: 07/02/2007
String.Equals Performance Comparison
I recently had an app that I used the VSTS Profiler on to find that a significant portion of time...
Date: 06/29/2007
VSTS Profiler
The Visual Studio Team System Profiler is a tool that helps find resource bottle necks in your...
Date: 06/28/2007