Joshua Ross

• TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more

  May 12, 2012 at 10:34 PM

  I like the Version and update information tool. It's been a challenge to keep Visual Studio up to date. I wish that all the updates came through the same channel, like the extension manager.

  -Josh

• C9 Live: Today - Patterns and Practices Symposium

  Apr 23, 2012 at 7:34 PM

  Well this is going to be interesting! I'm sure the floors of the P&P group are covered with hair that has been pulled out of heads. With the rapid clip of change, making sense of it all must surely present some challenges. 

  -Josh

• TWC9: Snowpocalypse, VS Achievements, 101 Async samples, & more

  Jan 22, 2012 at 6:55 PM

  The link to Jon Galloway's 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides, is very much appreciated. 

  -Josh

• Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson

  Dec 30, 2011 at 7:33 PM

  @brianbec: Or better yet, it seems that getting a plain text dump of wikipedia, isn't so difficult.

  -Josh

• Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson

  Dec 29, 2011 at 9:19 PM

  @brianbec: I'm looking for a good word frequency list, and this is what I've found.  Code soon to follow, I hope.

  -Josh

• Using the Windows Runtime from JavaScript

  Sep 19, 2011 at 5:19 PM

  This is a really good session, and I didn't even care for JavaScript! It seems that much of this interop stuff has been thought out fairly well, compared with offerings from other vendors.

  -Josh

• GoingNative 0: Help us fly this plane, Some modern C++, Meet Ale Contenti

  Aug 07, 2011 at 6:46 AM

  So, when can we get one of those Asus tablets?

  -Josh

• Defrag 003 - Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures

  Apr 04, 2011 at 7:35 PM

  @MagicAndre1981: I've never run into anyone that set their Clear Page File At Shutdown flag without knowing what it does or what it impacts. Then again, I don't have to deal with people that tattoo their face, put hot sauce in the wrong hole, or perform other inexplicable acts upon themselves.

  -Josh

• Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can't Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins

  Mar 03, 2011 at 8:11 PM

  @dentaku: What are you talking about? They totally succeeded in making that unsuccessful show. Was it ill-conceived? Possibly. The biggest problem is that niners are an eccentric bunch. We open tickets on connect and they get closed, often by reason of design. These aren't problems that you can fix with a call-in show.

  That said, I would like my BSOD-when-I-run-the-VS2008-profiler-on-an-app-running-in-the-Windows-Mobile-6.5-emulator bug fixed.

  -Josh

• World's first profiler for Windows Phone 7

  Oct 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM

  I wish that I had a profiler for Windows Mobile 6.5.3. There is only so much optimizing that you can do by putting timers everywhere.

  What was the guy using for a database? It certainly wasn't SQL Compact or any other Microsoft database, since they are not supported on Windows Phone 7.

  EDIT:

  Hey! These guys make a Compact Framework profiler!

  -Josh

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