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Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
The last few weeks I've felt like a little intern again. With the WPF Bootcamp and the early stages WCF integration into the Speedy Rewards messaging infrastructure (I'll be posting on this soon), I've had lots of time to play with.Net 3.0 stuff. For those that have had a chance…
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PerformanceHelper for easy PerformanceCounter integration
In the Speedy Rewards team here we use custom PerformanceCounters quite extensively to monitor and trend our host systems. You may not know, but our rewards program implements real-time host integration for transactions that are Id'ed as a SpeedyRewards member such that systems…
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Vacation at your own peril!
A co-worker of mine recently went on vacation for a week. Here's what he returned to: We went with a "Little Tikes" theme. Rickie is quite the artist. We wanted Rick to feel special, so we gave him his very own POS! Meetings are going to... 04-16-2007 10:56 AM by Ryan to Ryan…
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XSL Transforms applied to XML namespaces
I'm pretty sure I have run across this in the past, but apparently I've avoided complex XSL transforms successfully for long enough that my mind was purged of how namespaces impact your transforms. Today I was working on our.Net 2.0 build process and was attempting to apply a…
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Microsoft Expression Blend available to from MSDN
One of the cool tools we had a chance to use while up at the WPF Bootcamp in Redmond was Expression Blend. While there I became pretty engrossed in the ease with which you could create fairly cool animations without an intimate knowledge of Xaml. This made it all that harder to…
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Personal Backup with Mozy
Relatively speaking, I’ve been one lucky computer user. I’ve never had a hard drive fail here at the house. I’ve never accidentally deleted something vital. I even believed in the annual-reimage. As far as losing data I’ve never really lost anything I cared that much about. For…
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WPF Bootcamp Day 2 - Blend
[Update: These are being posted due to the ftp access restrictions at the Microsoft Campus] Today has been pretty intense which has kept me away from blogging "live". Today started with Kevin Moore, Program Manager for WPF/Blend(?), and a lightning round with Expression Blend. As…
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Powershell
Yesterday I had a had a chance to have dinner and drinks with another group here for a Technology Summit hosted by Microsoft. They get a bunch of representatives from parallel and alternate technology groups such as PHP, Linux, Java, Python, etc together and discuss they reasons…
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WPF Bootcamp Day 3 – FTP Problems from the Technology Center
You may have noticed there were not many blog entries for Day 2. It turns out there’s no way to ftp stuff out of the technology center. It’s hindering my ability to post with pictures/screen captures. I’ve got a bunch of posts for you as soon as I figure this out. Stay tuned.
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WPF Bootcamp Day 3 - Hardware capability
To avoid disappointing users after they've gotten as far as running your application on their 1997 300mhz Pentium II, determine their capabilities using the RenderCapability.Tier value before hand and notifying them that they'll need to joing the 21st century before running your…