April 11, 2007 tools

Show Me The Templates!

Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for...

April 11, 2007 spout

“Student who needs to interview a programmer”

Jimmy, a very polite 14-year old student of Washington Manor Middle School in California had an assignment to interview a computer programmer. I...

March 27, 2007 spout

The Microsoft “Sells” Department

So, I’m sitting in my office pair programming with Geoff Kizer when my phone rings. It says “Microsoft” on the display, so I figure it’s one of my...

March 21, 2007 fun

Name Sara Williams’s Baby Girl

Today, Sara Williams, ex-Developer Relations Group (the folks at MS that were allowed to speak to developers before we had blogs), ex-MSDN head and...

March 10, 2007 spout writing

Programming WPF: Rough Cuts

WPFread the chapters as we write them...

March 8, 2007

Mobile Video Conferencing! I want one!

I gotta get one of these (the video conferencing robot, not the dude)...

March 3, 2007 spout

Using my XBox 360 for Corp. Video Conferencing

I’ve been having another adventure in social video conferencing, this time with my team in Redmond. It all started with Doug brought his 360 into...

March 1, 2007 tools

Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP

And the hits they keep on comin’: What’s New in VS Orcas March CTP VPC image (includes the *long* list of what’s new) Virtual PC 2007 (*free* but...