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Re: Windows Phone 7: Applications & Tools

mawcc — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:33:13 GMT

Damn, I already had implemented the Bing based translation app for WP7

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Re: Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

mawcc — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:18:34 GMT

Very interesting! But what does this tool create behind the scenes? Does it write XAML files which can be manually edited if necessary?

It would be very useful if Lightswitch creates a starting point which can afterwards be customized just like any other Silverlight application.

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Re: Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern

mawcc — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:48:25 GMT

Sorry, off-topic, but: Separated at birth? Below is a picture of Austrian radio host Peter L. Eppinger

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Re: Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at the New Demos

mawcc — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:50:53 GMT

I tested the preview on a page that contains a very large table and is currently unusable in IE8. It runs flawlessly now.

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Re: eCSStender: the ‘jQuery of CSS’

mawcc — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:01:57 GMT

Here's the link.

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Re: WEI Share: Share your Windows 7 Experience Index

mawcc — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:33:19 GMT

I got 7.7 with an Intel X25-M, and it's the highest subscore of all

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Re: Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special

mawcc — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:29:49 GMT

In the halls of Microsoft no one can hear you scream.

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Re: Hanselminutes on 9 - Chris Sells on Managing People and Your Time

mawcc — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:11:48 GMT

OK, thanks for the clarification. And yes, that urbandictionary result was the reason I had to ask

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Re: Hanselminutes on 9 - Chris Sells on Managing People and Your Time

mawcc — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:12:07 GMT

I didn't know the word "pleebs", so I entered it into Bing. And the first search result is, well, let's say interesting...

What's the intended meaning here?

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1994

mawcc — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:05:25 GMT

Besides Windows, Chairs seem to have played a significant role in the History of Microsoft

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Re: This Week: Martin Woodward, MVP Summit, Web Perf, Show Off, and a VSTS Pep Talk

mawcc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:51:57 GMT

According to her blog, Tess last name is actually Ferrandez, not Fernandez. So no relation to Dan after all

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Re: 10-4 Episode 7: No More Planning Black Box

mawcc — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:05:39 GMT

No Episode 6 for me on that page...

Edit: After several refreshes it finally showed up.

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Re: Drag-Drop Data Binding Comes to WPF in Visual Studio 2010

mawcc — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:25:57 GMT

AFAIK the designer is written in WPF. It only looks like WinForms because the default look of all WPF controls resembles the look of WinForms.

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Re: This Week on C9: Xbox & Zune get updates, C9 gets custom CSS, and autonomous trucks!

mawcc — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:33:46 GMT

The same works for me, too.

I can even say that a fair amount of problems I had with computers from customers turned out to be problems with AV software. Some of these were very difficult problems to track down.

Having said that, I'd never recommend a customer not to use AV software if I'm not 100% sure she's an IT pro.

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Re: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

mawcc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:50:50 GMT

It's probably worth emphasizing that the XML Schema Explorer is not a VB only feature, but is generally available when working with XML/XSD files in the IDE.

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Re: Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad on WPF 3.5 SP1

mawcc — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:57:16 GMT

After reading Scott Guthrie's (excellent as usual) description of all the updates in VS 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, it seems as if WPF gets more updates from 3.5 RTM to 3.5 SP1 as it has from 3.0 RTM to 3.5 RTM.

So the versioning might seem a little bit odd, but of course WPF is part of the larger .NET Framework and thus doesn't have it's own version numbers.

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Re: Ted Neward: On Java and .NET, Software Academics versus Practioners, General Purpose Programming Languages

mawcc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:57:48 GMT

paulcoder wrote:

I didn't understand anything except for the bit about the Eskimos. But apparently most Eskimo languages have no more words for snow than English its just that they join two words together to make a single word like coldsnow or wetsnow. So put like that they could make infinite words for snow.

Hey, it's the same in German, so we are like Eskimos...

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Re: This Week on Channel 9: Feb 22 with Ed Kaim!

mawcc — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:25:23 GMT

Can we please have achievements for all C9 videos

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Re: Brian Keller and Dan Fernandez: Name this Show!

mawcc — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:16:59 GMT

Nice! I like this show.

But why make it look so depressing? Everything is dark. Lighten it up! Don't make it look as you're filming in a cubicle.

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Re: Happy Holidays Niners

mawcc — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:21:56 GMT

Now that put's a whole new perspective on the notion of "Coding as art".

Thanks to everyone involved, and Happy Holidays!

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Re: Soma, Carol Grojean, Jeff Beehler: Visual Studio 2008 RTM!!!

mawcc — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:50:59 GMT

Congratulations to all involved!

One thing I noticed though during setup of .NET Framework 3.5: It takes ages to install. I'm on the second machine right now, and so far installation takes up to 30min for the runtime alone.

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Re: Pat Brenner: New Updates to MFC in Visual Studio 2008

mawcc — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:09 GMT

Hmm, I really would have liked to see the stuff shown in this video to be part of WinForms 3.5.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the improvements for C++ programmers, but it further complicates the MS UI technology landscape.

To achieve Office 2007 look & feel in managed code, you have to rely on 3rd party WinForms controls. WPF is the way to go in the future, but currently lacks a variety of controls we got used to in WinForms.

So it boils down to the problem that the managed UI world is in a transitioning phase between (old) WinForms 2.0 and (new) WPF, and in between is a large gap that ironically C++/MFC seems to fill perfectly (although only conceptually, since the technology is not usable from managed code).

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Re: Becoming an Evangelist – Get the inside scoop from not one but two U.S. Developer Evangelists!

mawcc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:30:20 GMT

I really liked this video, it sends a positive message to the people in the industry in general and women about to enter this industry in particular.

But I'm wondering if it's enough to put such videos on C9 alone. Aren't most of the people visiting here already in IT? Wouldn't it be a good idea to put the video at least on C8, too, where the intended audience are students? And maybe an abridged version on C10?

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Re: Visual Studio Orcas Express: Building "Hello World" using Windows Presentation Foundation

mawcc — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:44:40 GMT

HowardNYC wrote:

good, basic how-to...

Q: has anyone built an inventory of all such how-to vid's...?

...if so, where is it?

http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos.aspx

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Re: Conversation with Dr. Sneath: Silverlight

mawcc — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:35:46 GMT

Bas wrote:

I may have missed this in the interview, but is there any estimation as to when we might expect Silverlight 1.1?

A beta version with a go-live license would be a good first step. But I guess only now that 1.0 is out the door, all resources can be concentrated on 1.1. So it might take some time.

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