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Monday, April 18, 2005 7:21 PM

IEvangelist's biggest challenge

Sweet, the post about the IE job has been up for two hours, and already the blogsphere is making it clear why it will be a great challenge to tackle. David Betz: Wanted: Technical evangelist who has never tried Firefox Being a Lornhorn evangelist would
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:41 PM

Non administrator: running with least privilege

A reader emailed me a question about running under a non-administrator account in Windows today, which prompted me to do a little MSNSearch-ing. That lead me very quickly to Aaron Margosis's excellent blog . If you are interested in how you can get by
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:18 PM

XMLHTTP primer on ASP.NET Support Voice

Brian Goldfarb sent me an email pointer to the latest ASP.NET Support Voice posting. This one covers implementing an AJAX-style experience using XMLHTTP to asynchronously fetch data from a web service . I also just noticed that Brian's link to Bertrand's
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:36 PM

Web Smart Client in the real world - MSDN Chat Feb 17

In response to my previous posts about the spectrum of smart clients, I got an email from Mark Levison about an upcoming MSDN chat he's co-hosting: " No Touch Deployment in the real world ", on Feb 17 at 1pm (although 1pm in which time zone the page doesn't
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:15 PM

Fiddler for HTTP inspection/debugging

Via the IE team blog , it's Fiddler ! This tool looks great. When I worked on the Sharepoint Portal Server client components, I often spent a lot of time with the Windows Newtork Monitor tool, sniffing HTTP packets to see what requests Office XP or other
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:14 PM

VSLive Smart Client demo

We had a good time with Soma's keynote at VSLive, and the folks at Fawcette have made the talk available via streaming media (and the transcript is over here ). Craig Neable represented our evangelism team as the demo jock, walking through our good-better-best
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:39 PM

Chubby clients

Soma , the VP of our Developer Division, mentioned last month that he’d be talking about Smart Clients at VS Live next week . I’m one of the lucky few folks in the evangelism team who got to help build the smart client demo that Soma will use during that
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:51 AM

Whidbey MSDN docs

I spent a frustrating few minutes googling (and MSNSearching) for the online class reference and samples for the Whidbey version of WinForms . I couldn't get any promising hits from my searches. But a little manual searching turned up the complete reference
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Monday, November 29, 2004 2:24 PM

InfoWorld Top 100 IT projects of 2004

A colleague sent around a link to InfoWorld’s write-up of their top 100 IT projects for 2004 : “ As judges, our editors have an explicit bias toward multiple technologies used in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals. ” The web site links
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Friday, September 10, 2004 3:47 PM

Useful, and free: Lookout, XP Backup

Nothing better than finding a couple of free utilities that are actualy useful. Lookout : this is a local search client that integrates with Outlook. I am quite impressed, it took about 15 minutes to index my exchange content, plus a couple .pst archives,
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:48 PM

SP2 working well for me

With SP2 released and available via Windows Update, I wanted to update all my machines. Here's my brief summary of how my upgrades went. Home machine #1: Toshiba Portege R100. Upgraded from XP SP1 to SP2 via Windows Update. Results: Flawless. Install
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:49 AM

Jon Udell's blogs turn into a cover story

Jon Udell has turned his series of blog entries on Longhorn into an InfoWorld cover story . His editor makes the point that the blogging drove some great discussion and contributions to the final article. It’s cool to see that discussions I took
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Monday, July 19, 2004 1:49 PM

Allocating aligned memory in Windows

A question came up on an internal alias about allocating memory blocks along page alignments, and it was harder than I expected to find the answer. So here is the link to _aligned_malloc on MSDN , and now Google can work its magic. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/vclrf_aligned_malloc.asp
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:52 PM

Smart client bonanza

I came across a bunch of smart client links today, perhaps these will be of interest to some of you. Beta versions of smart client patterns and practicies guide, including suggested usage of the Offline Application Block The just-released Smart Client
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Monday, April 26, 2004 10:27 AM

Evangelizing security in XP SP2

I spent a bit of time recently away from Longhorn evangelism, in order to help with some XP SP2 evangelism. It sounds kind of funny to talk about evangelizing a service pack, I suppose, but SP2 has some pretty significant new security features in it.
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