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Any Port in a Storm

Peter Foot — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:33:00 GMT

Peter Foot writes "A user posted an important observation on the Bluetooth COM support in Windows Mobile 5 here on the microsoft public pocketpc developer newsgroup. The problem is that while the system allows you to create virtual COM ports for all your paired devices which support Serial Port Profile, most of the time this will fail because the COM port you pick is already in use, on many devices you can have just 2 virtual COM ports. I've posted a few of my thoughts in the thread linked above, but while there are things that Microsoft can work to improve there are also a few things that developers can do to avoid the problem:- "

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Checking out the LiveSide

Kevin Briody — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:38:16 GMT

Kevin Briody writes "Scoble just pointed out a new group blog covering Windows Live called LiveSide. Subscribed and added to my growing “Windows Live Communities” feed folder. To those behind the site, drop me a note as I’d love to talk! I’m trying to identify any WL-focused blogs and community sites out there, and see how we (Windows Live team) can help. If anyone know of any, please pass along this post! (It might be a cool idea to drop a ... "

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Professional Developers Conference 2005 Is Over But Not Forgotten

John Alexander — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:27:03 GMT

John Alexander writes "While the physical Professional Developers Conference 2005 is over and now recorded for posterity, you can still use the Professional Developers Conference 2005 Site (lots of great post conference resources here!) whether or not you attended: If you did attend PDC 2005, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that it was great! Make sure you check out the following resources now available.... Even though aggregation has ended for PDC 2005 at PDCBloggers, the adventure doesn’t stop there. Did you know you can use the search facility on PDCBloggers to search the posts for conference related resources? If you haven’t already done so.."

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VSTS Code Coverage Customization

Steven Smith — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:59:35 GMT

Steven Smith writes "VSTS originally used intuitive colors for code that was covered, code that was not covered, and code that was partially covered. In beta 2, these was changed to a bunch of pastel colors, as others like Dave Donaldson notes. Dave explains how to switch this back to the more obvious primary colors: To do this, go to ... "

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Download Streaming Content for Offline Viewing

Kevin Kelley — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:34:58 GMT

Kevin Kelley writes "There is tons of stuff on the internet available for streaming, but often the site only gives you the option to stream it and not download it for viewing later. This is an issue for me because I don't have internet connectivity on the train. Just the other day, I wanted to listen .. Well, there is good news, because I've come across a little application that can download the stream for viewing or listening to later. It is called "

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All the Windows Workflow Foundation content from the PDC

Paul Andrew — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:25:49 GMT

Paul Andrew writes "The PDC keynotes including workflow are now online. Eric Rudders keynote includes the announcement of Windows Workflow Foundation and a demo on stage by Dennis Pilarinos. Following that Steven Sinofskys keynote includes the announcement of Office "12" which includes document workflow based on Windows Workflow Foundation. All of the event keynotes are available here. The Windows Workflow Foundation PPT's and demo code can be downloaded from our community web site. Also the Windows Workflow Foundation sessions from the PDC are being presented by "

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Windows Workflow Foundation: Missed it at PDC?

Noel Hoo — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:24:32 GMT

Noel Hoo writes "For all you folks that weren't there or missed the breakout sessions at PDC, Paul Andrew has kindly posted up a list of resources on WWF. But wait, there's more. From the team that brought you WWF at PDC, they are doing a series of webcast on Windows Workflow Foundation. So what are you waiting for? Download it here and give it a go!"

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PDC demos available

Nick Kramer — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:22:01 GMT

Nick Kramer writes "For those of you who are at the PDC, we finally got my demos posted to commnet (under PRS313): "

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PDC is over but the podcasts arent!

Michael Lehman — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:20:45 GMT

Michael Lehman writes "Today I'll be posting 13 more podcasts that I did in the "Big Room" at PDC05. In retrospect it was quite an interesting process to see something like PDC "behind-the-scenes". Many people did a lot of hard work to make it easy for attendees and presenters alike. In the new set of podcasts you'll hear from attendees as well as ... "

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Enforcing Ordering of Data Elements when receiving messages in WCF (Indigo)

Software Maker — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:09:21 GMT

Software Maker writes "I dont think a lot of people know about one of the aspects of WCF, which pertains to how WCF serializes incoming messages before it sends it to the dispatcher and onto your .NET typed code. In .NET 1.*, ASMX disregards the ordering of the data elements in the received messages. This means that for a XML Schema such as this: "

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LINQ 101

Scott Wiltamuth — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:08:11 GMT

Scott Wiltamuth writes "Jon Udell posts LINQ 101: "I've been checking out the LINQ technical preview, and it's definitely an eye-opener. . ." "

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How To Change The Font and Font Size for Intellisense

Sara Ford — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:34:38 GMT

Sara Ford writes "Visual Studio 2005 now has the option to change the font and font size for Intellisense. To change settings: "

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VSTS vs VSS

Owen Cutajar — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:21:50 GMT

Owen Cutajar writes "The upcoming Visual Studio 2005 release comes with a choice of source control mechanisms: VSS 2005, the new and improved VSS; and Team Systems which takes the development effort to a totally new level, with integrated test tools, project management capabilities etc. This article discusses the relative merits and the criteria for choosing one over the other. Read here (On a side note, it talks about ... "

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Fifteen and MineSweeper

Nathan Dunlap — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:19:45 GMT

Nathan Dunlap writes "Peter Blois is blogging at ... Very cool stuff so far... Fifteen is a XAMLViewer with pan/zoom and more. Also he just posted source for a MineSweeper game he created using Acrylic and Sparkle... "

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Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 Released

Morten Jokumsen — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:18:44 GMT

Morten Jokumsen writes "Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 Released The WSS SP 2 release has substantial supportability improvements including: Support for running on ... "

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SQL Changes for RTM

Mike Taulty — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:17:55 GMT

Mike Taulty writes "I was trying to move some of my older demos of SQL 2005 from the June CTP across to the September CTP builds and had some trouble particularly around deploying assemblies that are using EXTERNAL ACCESS and also around sending/receiving with service broker. Both of these turned out to be new permissions that I needed to have ..."

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Mono at the Professional Developers's Conference 2005

Miguel de Icaza — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:17:04 GMT

Miguel de Icaza writes "Just got back from an intense week at the Microsoft Professional's Developer Conference in LA. I arrived on Sunday night along with Gonzalo. My original plans were just to attend the conference, learn about the state of .NET and the upcoming technologies being built on top of .NET. At the last PDC we attended the conference before Mono 1.0 had been shipped. Mono was still ..."

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PDC + Mobile PC + Tablet PC + Windows Vista Part 2

Microsoft Tablet PC Team — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:16:09 GMT

Microsoft Tablet PC Team writes "Finally!! PDC is over, and I've caught up with the back log of work that piled while I was at PDC. Our PDC was great! Our Hands On Labs (HOLs) were consistently full, we depleted our supply of digitizers/USB-drives/TMobile cards in the process since it was so popular Our sessions went well too, lots of folks turned up to listen to Mobile PC & Tablet PC related sessions although it was past 17:00 Birds of a feather meetings - lots of candid and honest exchange of..."

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More OneNote 12 "goodness"

Mike Wood — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:14:40 GMT

Mike Wood writes "Check out the new "shared notebook" features of OneNote 12. Very nice. Now if I can get more co-workers and clients using this tool. Also, tables, embedded documents, drag/drop notes and more! "

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Managed Addins Support in Office 12

Michael Shneerson — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:12:13 GMT

Michael Shneerson writes "At the PDC we have announced support for managed Add-ins across most Office applications. Superficially it is not real news considering today we already have "Shared add-in" project. This project type is there since Visual Studio .NET and this thing is still alive for VS 2005. However, the devil is in the details and..."

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