The Case of the Corrupt PE Binaries
After installing Windows 7, I also installed the Windows 7 SDK as I wanted to poke around the updated headers and documentation files to see what was new at a […]
Blast from the Past: How Son-Of-FDISK Saved My Computer
You can tell how long someone has been around computers by mentioning “FDISK” and seeing if you’re met with a blank stare. Not many people remember FDISK. But for those […]
Yngwie Malmsteen syndrome (Silverlight 2 Scroller revisited)
Earlier this month, I blogged about a Silverlight 2 Scroller control that I had labored over for the better part of a weekend. The entire time I was working on […]
Silverlight System.ExecutionEngineException
Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone the pain that I just went through chasing yet another exception in Silverlight with nothing to go on from Visual Studio. […]
Win7 Beta – Remove the Send Feedback Link on Every Window
I’m knee deep in setting up my Lenovo X60 Tablet with Windows 7 and my initial impressions are extremely positive. The fact that all the drivers for my laptop were […]
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: The PowerThreading Library for Silverlight with Jeffrey Richter
Later this month, I’ll be doing a geekSpeak webcast. You can find more information here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032400477&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US I hope you’ll join me.
PC Magazine: 1982-2009
It’s old news by now, but I couldn’t let it go by without saying a few words about an old friend who’s no longer with us. PC Magazine began life […]
PowerShell: One Year Later
At the end of 2007, I made a New Year’s resolution to start using PowerShell as my command window. Amazingly, that’s the only resolution I’ve ever kept in my life! […]
Paraffin 3.0 – Now with Full WiX 3.0 Support
Congratulations to the WiX team on hitting the Beta milestone for WiX 3.0! Now that code and schema changes are on the ramp down on the project, I thought it […]