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Posts about Windows [Phone] application development. And other stuff.

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2014 5

  1. Async & exceptions in C#
  2. New "Missing Platform APIs" UserVoice site for Windows Store development
  3. Updated LayoutRules Code
  4. Optimum Emulator Sizes for Windows Phone 8.1
  5. //Build talk "From 4 to 40 inches" (with sample LayoutRules code)

2013 2

  1. Opening a Windows Phone project after you have upgraded SQLite
  2. Trying something new: the Windows Phone Developer Blog

2012 4

  1. Revisiting an old post - Application.Terminate
  2. Images for Threat Modelling Post
  3. Update on sample code
  4. Inside Windows Phone 41

2011 12

  1. Back means back. Not forwards, not sideways, but back
  2. BUILD 2011 demos
  3. More Knowledge Chamber videos on Channel 9
  4. Multitasking video on The Knowledge Chamber
  5. Background Agents - Part 2 of 3
  6. Background Agents - Part 1 of 3
  7. Alarms and Notifications in Mango
  8. Mango samples coming soon, no really!
  9. "Mango" posts coming soon!
  10. I was joking about the penny, but how about some tombstoning sample code?
  11. A penny for your thoughts on Windows Phone 7 tombstoning
  12. This is not the exit you are looking for

2010 31

  1. How to correctly handle application deactivation and reactivation
  2. That memory thing I promised you
  3. A couple of (late) links
  4. Sample code from TechEd New Zealand talks
  5. Redirecting an initial navigation
  6. Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications
  7. Homeward Bound...
  8. Updated Tilt Effect
  9. Jeff’s improved ProgressBar template
  10. I am not PTorr on twitter
  11. Exiting a Windows Phone Application
  12. How to detect when a list is scrolling (or not)
  13. Recreating the PhoneListBoxItemLayout (and why we cut it)
  14. Uninstall issues with WPDT CTP before installing Beta
  15. The Beta Shipped! Plus a quick tip for keyboard input
  16. Why can't I change the Background of my Button on a Click event?
  17. Why are the ApplicationBar objects not FrameworkElements?
  18. Heading to TechEd next week
  19. Sorry about the messed-up source code
  20. A couple of Manipulation tips
  21. Recent lack of posts
  22. Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone Developer Tools
  23. Emulating HVGA screens with Mix CTP
  24. Strategies for dealing with Orientation Changes
  25. Engagdet's post on multi-tasking
  26. Mock Location APIs from my Mix10 Talk
  27. Tilt effect for Windows Phone controls
  28. Other Windows Phone Silverlight Developer Talks
  29. Slides, video, and code
  30. Mix talk is done!
  31. Warming up the Engine

2008 6

  1. What Now?
  2. Fun Friends for Functions, Part 2: Handling Exceptions
  3. Why the ‘arguments’ object is bad, Exhibit #3,745
  4. Fun Friends For Functions
  5. A Concert with PowerPoint Slides?
  6. Good News

2007 19

  1. HD DVD Emulator for Xbox 360!
  2. “Open Season” Hits #2; World Scratches Head
  3. Sliced bread ain’t got nuthin’ on this!
  4. Wikipedia editing
  5. Why Old Films Still Benefit from High-Def
  6. Using Timers Effectively in HDi
  7. Simple ACA dumper
  8. Helpful Tracing Routines
  9. Using Conditional Compilation in HDi
  10. Link
  11. A Game of Chance that Pirates like to Play
  12. HD DVD creation on the Mac and PC
  13. Coloured Blocks Advancing on a Moving Block
  14. Tech Acronym of the Day
  15. The Difference Between “Selected” and “Current” tracks
  16. A tip for writing script for HD DVD
  17. Red Box Debugging
  18. Paperless
  19. Simple Pre-Processor for HDi

2006 45

  1. Casino Royale… no PS 3?
  2. Script Execution Order in HD DVD
  3. “Live” vs “Loaded” DOM
  4. Toggling Menus with the Menu button in 100% Markup
  5. iRiver Clix First Impressions
  6. Bare Bones HD DVD Interactivity
  7. Adding Picture-In-Picture to an HD DVD Title
  8. Using unsetProperty With Script Animations
  9. Scrolling Menus in 100% Pure Markup
  10. First European HD DVD Title is Open Source
  11. Looks like I'll be down $300 on November 14th
  12. Updates coming
  13. How do I get started with iHD?
  14. Drop-Down Menus in 100% Pure Markup
  15. More Interlaced / Progressive Info
  16. Dead Man's Chest
  17. Pretty Buttons
  18. Radio Groups in iHD
  19. Beyond "Beyond High Definition"?
  20. Inheritance in JScript - Part 1
  21. Something About Lies and Statistics...
  22. Consumer HD DVD site on microsoft.com
  23. Would the Real "Bourne Supremacy" Please Stand Up?
  24. HD DVD Commercial
  25. Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part iv: The Script]
  26. Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part iii: The Markup]
  27. Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part ii: The Manifest]
  28. Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part i: The Playlist]
  29. Is A Picture Worth 1,000 Spams?
  30. Next-Gen DVD Features have Little to do with Capacity
  31. Blogging from Word 2007 Beta 2
  32. HD DVD Jumpstart Kit Beta Available
  33. iHD Authoring Support
  34. HD DVD -- Live in Las Vegas
  35. I'm with Stupid - Part 2
  36. Hello, World Part 3: Dealing with State
  37. Updating Firefox as non-admin
  38. I'm with Stupid
  39. Hello, World Part 2: Simple Animation
  40. HD DVD Launches in Japan
  41. Quick Intro to iHD
  42. Hello, World in iHD
  43. There's more to HD than, uh, HD
  44. Back up and running?
  45. High Definition Facts

2005 16

  1. Blindly trusting detection tools
  2. What is Microsoft doing for security?
  3. IE Blog
  4. The Evil Problem
  5. Fun Weekend
  6. Adding URLs to an application securely
  7. Dear Diary...
  8. So that's what happens...
  9. More updates to my blog posting app
  10. Mozilla now signs Firefox downloads
  11. You MUST see this film!
  12. High-Level Threat Modelling Process
  13. Two questions I couldn't get answered
  14. Back to VBA
  15. Inheritance Demands for Interfaces
  16. Why would you switch search engines?

2004 76

  1. Happy Holidays
  2. How can I trust Firefox?
  3. A note about comments
  4. Changing Abstractions in an Object Model is Hard
  5. Career Update
  6. Branston Pickle
  7. AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers and AppDomain Boundaries
  8. Creating a partially-trusted AppDomain
  9. Amazing Pet Shop Boys fan site
  10. Dr. Strongname, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the URL
  11. New Halo 2 Trailer
  12. Threat Models in Action
  13. October Security Bulletins
  14. Best. Game. Ever.
  15. It's OK to tell people what they already know
  16. Code Repurposing and Untrustworthy Data
  17. Trading off features for scenarios
  18. Why does it take so long to ship Hello World?
  19. Tin Foil Hat Tool
  20. What good is StrongNameIdentityPermission if you can disable it?
  21. RequestRefuse and RequestOptional example
  22. Source code for RequestRefuse / RequestOptional
  23. Everett SP1 Tech Preview and VSA / VSTO
  24. When is the Local Intranet not the Local Intranet?
  25. A useful regfile for VSTO
  26. RequestOptional and RequestRefuse
  27. Maintaining LinkDemands across inheritance boundaries
  28. More travel stuff
  29. More non-Admin bloggging
  30. Referrer Entry
  31. Just me complaining
  32. Harry Potter and the 142 Minutes of My Life I'll Never Get Back
  33. Random Holiday Posting
  34. Holidays and Airlines
  35. Why does Outlook have an OM?
  36. Clear Plastic Cups at SEATAC
  37. Top 5 List
  38. Windows Update Day
  39. Installing software
  40. Leaking names
  41. Crash
  42. Developing as Non-Admin
  43. Balancing Security and Usability
  44. I want my Burnout 3
  45. The horse has already bolted
  46. Andrew Whitechapel's blog
  47. New WinZip vulnerability
  48. New VSTO 2 blog
  49. A new name for Windows?
  50. Good discussion of code auditing
  51. Romance in Movies
  52. GetObject and LinkDemands
  53. Things to come
  54. A ridiculous "security" tool
  55. Why you can't catch some exceptions
  56. IE patch and other stuff
  57. Where VSTO creates the project folder
  58. MyDoom and VSTO
  59. Gandalf is Dracula!
  60. Hacking IE Security Zones
  61. Using referenced assemblies in VSTO
  62. Francis Francis! X5 and ESE pods
  63. Not calling your parent constructor
  64. Beware of AutoSave and DocumentBeforeSave
  65. Calling class constructors twice
  66. GetObject and Security
  67. Clinick's Clinic is back!
  68. Now I've seen it all
  69. SD Times mentions VSTO security
  70. You know you're a PM when...
  71. Security and Inheritance
  72. 8 Rules of Security
  73. Word Shortcuts
  74. Five phases of security
  75. Always making the wrong decision
  76. Regex perf bug

2003 69

  1. Series on secure programming
  2. We really need to work on our web site
  3. What is "innovation"?
  4. Wet paper bag or industrial safe?
  5. Problems with dotWord
  6. What I'd like to see in blog schemas
  7. Hacked up using dotWord
  8. Testing the web service
  9. Moved to ASP.NET
  10. Moving to asp.net!
  11. Testing from InfoPath
  12. Redefining a function in JScript
  13. More geeky language stuff
  14. Collapsing vocabulary
  15. What does "Save As..." mean, anyway?
  16. VSTO doc team blogging
  17. OK so I'm a big fat liar
  18. Things not to do with client-side script
  19. The kind of bug I like to see
  20. Avoiding work any way I can...
  21. Cross-application coding and other questions
  22. Downtime
  23. Philosophical Question, Part ][
  24. Philosophical Question
  25. Hackers about
  26. Now you see 'em, now you... still do?
  27. OfficeZealot Blogs
  28. Making Movies
  29. PDC Session on Office Development with VS "Whidbey"
  30. Watch out, there's a Kiwi about
  31. LiveJournal.com
  32. Running scared
  33. See also...
  34. Influencing Hollywood
  35. Part ][ is coming...
  36. Why is the VSTO project folder named Project_bin?
  37. Unfinished songs
  38. SecurityFocus Article
  39. WordBlogX 1.1 Coming Along Nicely...
  40. Another debugging tip
  41. More VSTO Press
  42. More testing
  43. Updating WordBlogX
  44. Old Fashioned Security
  45. Successfully debugging VSTO projects
  46. VSTO Press Coverage
  47. Future blogs
  48. Media Centre PC
  49. Two geeks coding
  50. Funny error message and some old memories
  51. Other blogs you should read
  52. Dr. Who is BACK!
  53. Why must I trust the documents as well as code?
  54. If a tree falls in the forrest...
  55. Paranoia
  56. Blank
  57. Compiled, interpreted, whatever
  58. First real bug
  59. Where does your macro want to go today?
  60. First real bug
  61. 1 User and counting...
  62. WordBlogX Released?
  63. Releasing code for WinBloX
  64. Stayin' Alive
  65. WordBlogX v0.1 is done!
  66. Testing
  67. Word front end
  68. Dr. Who
  69. ObFirstPost