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My luggage wasn’t waiting for me at Heathrow as British Airways said it would be Friday morning; it got sent to Helsinki instead. But BA flew it back from Helsinki and it finally caught up with me last night in Cork, Ireland. It was so good to change into clean clothes! This morning I visited Blarney Castle…

As much as anyone, I really appreciate the effort that Microsoft put help end users to find resolutions to their crashes. However, after debugging a crashing application today, I got a little tired of looking at the spinning bar and itching for the Debug button of old. Fortunately, it’s easy to toggle off the automatic…

Wintellectuals are spread out to the corners of the globe this week–some for spring break, some for business. I leave this afternoon for DevDays/TechDays Europe to deliver some fun sessions of ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, and WPF/E. Here’s a quick list of the dates and locations I’ll be speaking in case you’re planning to attend one…

When you run MSVSMON.EXE on Vista, do you get the dreaded message indicating that you need to set the firewall, but when you do, MSVSMON.EXE errors out with an Incorrect Function message? After much struggle, I finally found the trick to remote debugging working correctly. Many thanks to this post on the MSDN Forums from…

Since Microsoft hasn’t released an MSDN Library that includes .NET 3.0 and Vista documentation, it’s frustrating because you can’t get F1 help on all the new and shiny bits. If you’ve installed the Vista Platform SDK, you can open MSDN Library and past the following link into the URL field: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_vscccommon/local/CollectionManager.htm. From there you can…

If you have an Apple Mac Pro, instead of wrestling getting the 32-bit version of Vista (or XP) on the machine, where you can only access 2GB of RAM, just put the Vista x64 version on! It works phenomenally well right out of the box. Here’s a few pointers on what I did on my…

Well, I’m very pleased to announce that the “Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)” is avialable as of today (January 18, 2007). You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=06FA2ACE-A42D-4117-821C-BCE80786F1C4&displaylang=en This is the managed API that I personally implemented for Microsoft to make it easy for managed developers to write SideShow gadget applications for Windows…

A minor update to the existing code, but added all the cool MSBuild tasks for working offline with TFS as discussed here. Moved everything to Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Removed mssccprj.scc installed with Wintellect.Visualizers, which obviously wasn’t supposed to be installed. Added RemoveVersionControlBindingsTask, RestoreVersionControlBindingsTask, and TFPowerToyOnlineTask. You can read about them in the here and learn how…

I arrived home this weekend after a trip to Barcelona for TechEd Europe. This year TechEd Europe was split into two events. Last week was the TechEd for developers; this week is the one for IT folks. In terms of turnout and quality of content, it was the most successful TechEd Europe ever. The star of the…