Dan Crevier's Blog
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2008 14
- News on the upcoming SkyDrive release
- Font Smoothing with Remote Desktop and Windows Server 2003
- Disappearing disk space on Vista
- New updates to SkyDrive!
- Bootcamp 2.1 update available
- Implications of the just in time nature of LINQ
- Why does my computer need to tell me when I plug into the headphone jack?
- mstsc /console is now /admin in Vista SP1
- Yield and usings - your Dispose may not be called!
- Josh Zana's perf blog
- FolderShare updates
- SkyDrive is out of beta
- Why do iTunes updates keep making me reboot?
- A WPF Framework
2007 13
- More SkyDrive goodness
- Frustrating error using Remote Desktop
- Tafiti
- Windows Live SkyDrive/Spaces integration
- Windows Live Folders is now Windows Live SkyDrive!
- A pattern for unit testable Asp.net pages: Part 4
- A pattern for unit testable Asp.net pages: Part 3
- A pattern for unit testable Asp.net pages: Part 2
- A pattern for unit testable Asp.net pages: Part 1
- Live Folders is live!
- Gotcha with HttpResponse.Redirect
- The difference between <%= and <%# in ASP.NET
- Web security is hard
2006 46
- Inline Search in IE
- Good post on Yahoo! User Interface blog on web site performance
- What does runat="server" do for HTML controls
- Getting machine to go to sleep under Vista
- Playing with ASP.NET
- Live Search for Mobile Beta
- Pulse Controller
- So long, Microsoft Max
- DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern series
- A comparison of C++ unit testing frameworks
- What happened to the menu bars?
- DM-V-VM part 8: View Models
- DM-V-VM part 7: Encapsulating commands
- Thoughts on iTunes 7
- Max feedback on TechCrunch
- A new version of Max is live!
- Windows Marketplace: Pretty cool!
- MacBU Blog
- Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
- Taskbar Weirdness Solved
- DM-V-VM part 6: Revisiting the data model
- Snoop - an awesome WPF debugging utility
- Windows Live Writer Beta
- DM-V-VM part 5: Commands
- DM-V-VM part 3: A sample DataModel
- DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern: 2
- DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern: 1
- Microsoft Acquires Winternals/Sysinternals
- VirtualPC is now free!
- Why porting from PPC to Intel on the Mac isn't just a recompile
- Entourage now has support for Sync Services and Spotlight
- ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem returns false on failure!
- Attaching behavior to an Avalon element in XAML
- New version of Max available with News support
- Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta - you can tell it's a Microsoft product from the name :-)
- GhostDoc is a great tool for inserting documentation in Visual Studio
- The ATC Avalon team is blogging
- Another Max blogger
- How to create giant memory leaks with XmlSerializer
- Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 4: the goods!
- Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 3: MeasureCore
- Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 2: IItemContainerGenerator
- Managed code debugging tip: Make object ID
- Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts
- Implementing a virtualized panel in WPF (Avalon)
- Tutorial on IScrollInfo
2005 32
- I love the birds eye view in local.live.com
- New version of Max is available!
- Automated leak detection in managed code
- Max, the cat
- Layout to layout animations in WCP (part 2)
- Layout to layout animations in WCP (part 1)
- Windows Office 2003 SP2 Released
- Office 2004 SP2 released with more Exchange support
- Feedback on Max
- PDC talk on how Max works
- Max now available!
- Backstage at the PDC keynote
- I'm speaking at PDC 2005!
- Run as and Protect My Computer
- Comparing strings in Whidbey
- LEEEEEEEROY
- Joy of Tech on Intel switch
- Thoughts on Apple on Intel rumors
- Avalon and Indigo Beta1 RC is now available
- Analyze your netflix rental statistics
- Patents
- MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search has been released
- The difference in wildcard expansion between Windows and unix/Macintosh
- Ouch, my Tivo died
- Visual Studio expansions
- Another ex-MacBU Development Manager is blogging
- How Google maps works
- Process Explorer 9.0 is out
- Amazon Prime
- Extending MSN desktop search
- Microsoft Antispyware beta is out!
- My favorite x-box games of 2004
2004 91
- 64-bit support in Tiger
- Microsoft acquires anti-spyware company Giant
- Error handling in Microsoft SQL stored procedures is gross!
- Generating an RSS feed with XmlSerializer, ASP.NET and C#
- New MSN Toolbar including Desktop search now available!
- The best UI for reading blogs
- My first patent!
- Google Suggest is cool!
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II gets a good review
- New C# features - my criteria for evaluation
- My MSN Space
- New version of Process Explorer is available
- Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP
- Windows Internet Explorer Security Update available (unless you are running XP SP2)
- New stuff from MSN
- I'm giving up Tivo (kinda)
- Web Messenger is very cool!
- Automating iTunes .NET is now easier!
- Tech Preview of Avalon on XP now available
- Refactoring and performance
- Get a taste of Visual C# Express
- Potential Malware for the Mac
- Interview with Mac RSS aggregator authors on drunkenblog
- WMPlugins.com
- Unit testing .NET code
- Mac Office 2004 Service Pack 1 released
- Notepad2 is great!
- Great post from Omar on Virtual PC 7
- Get pi/2% off at Amazon if you use a9.com
- iTunes, WMP, iPod, iTMS and choice
- Unit testing in Visual Studio Team System
- Fiddler - an awesome tool for viewing/debugging HTTP traffic
- Interesting thread between Miguel de Icaza and Chris Anderson on Avalon
- Color coding messages in Outlook
- Virtual PC 7 for the Macintosh with G5 support has been released!
- Hacking iPod + iTunes
- Skype for Mac OS X - and it's not just an ugly port!
- A history of Mac email clients from Microsoft
- Major Nelson can't stop playing Fable
- Please don't blog for the next week
- Great .NET Information Portal
- Free peer-to-peer collaboration platform from Microsoft Research, including source code!
- Lookout available for free download!
- Microsoft acquires Lookout
- Khoi Vinh likes Office 2004 for the Mac
- Why did Apple integrate RSS support into Safari instead of Mail?
- Update to Debugging Tools for Windows
- Another option for syncing Entourage data with the Address Book and iCal
- MSDN article on programming Outlook 2003 using C#
- Ten things Apple did to make Mac OS X faster
- Welcome to the world of blogging, Oji
- Details on recent Mac OS X exploits (and why they still aren't fixed with the latest update)
- Mac Office 2004 Test Drive available
- Trojan horse disguised as Mac Word 2004 demo
- Switching back
- Automating/scripting iTunes on Windows
- Writing a shim to solve problems with managed Office COM Add-ins
- More details on Hotmail's use of IronPort for spam filtering
- Communications history and WinHEC
- Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalablity
- Good press for Mac Office 2004
- .NET Reflector
- Scott Water explains tracebacks
- FaceIds on Office toolbar buttons
- Chris Pratley on Word
- The complications of installing Outlook COM Add-ins
- Apple sold more iPods than Macs in the last quarter
- A9 - Amazon's new search engine
- Regulator 2.0 beta is out
- Usability
- Trojan horse on the Mac
- Why doesn't Microsoft Entourage use the Apple Address Book?
- Mac Office 2004 is approaching RTM
- A history of Entourage and becoming an Office application
- Customizing what happens when you launch Windows Media Player
- Google is launching webmail tomorrow (called gmail)
- Debugging Outlook Add-ins doesn't work if you have disabled add-ins
- Smart pointer wrapper for IDisposable in Managed C++
- WWDC 2004 Session Descriptions are available
- The Longhorn People & Groups platform
- New MSDN article on WinFS
- Avalon's Media Integration Layer
- Great hashing info
- XAML != HTML
- New Office 2003 Updates available
- Hello Word Outlook Add-In using C#
- Windows XP SP 2 RC1 is now available
- Danny Elfman is doing the music for the X-Box game Fable!
- Other MacBU bloggers
- Mac Office 2004 demo is now online
- Introduction