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Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist

TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers - EMB201

I've had a number of people ask me for the deck I presented last week, at the TechEd EMEA 2008...

Date: 11/21/2008

TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers - A guide to the Windows Embedded track sessions

With less than a week to go before this year's TechEd EMEA Developers conference, you may have...

Date: 11/04/2008

EMIC Sensor Network Research on Channel9

Back in September, I visited the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) in Aachen, Germany....

Date: 11/03/2008

TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers - Introducing the Windows Embedded track

  This year, we're introducing a new track for embedded development technologies at TechEd...

Date: 10/31/2008

.NET Micro Framework on Channel9

On my last trip to Redmond a couple of months ago, I sat down with the some folks from the .NET...

Date: 10/15/2008

From Live to Embedded and from Redmond to Madrid

A lot of big changes have taken place in my "world" over the past 6 months, and I'm using...

Date: 10/14/2008

The Tafiti Windows Live Quick Application on Channel9

Right before the holidays, I saw down with Marc Mercuri to discuss the recently released Tafiti...

Date: 01/11/2008

Windows Live Platform @ ReMIX Boston

I'm really excited about participating in the upcoming ReMIX event in Boston. I'm especially fond of...

Date: 09/22/2007

Windows Live ID Web Authentication and the ASP.NET Development Server

Windows Live ID Web Authentication By now, I hope you've heard about the recent release of Windows...

Date: 08/28/2007

Windows Live Platform tidbits from last week

I was out of the office last week on vacation (check out our awesome seaplane ride to Victoria!),...

Date: 08/15/2007

Silverlight Streaming: new iframe-based invocation mechanism

With a recent update to the Silverlight Streaming service, it's now even easier to instantiate a...

Date: 07/31/2007

Virtual Earth: New imagery released

Looks like I missed this announcement while I was away on my recent ReMIX Europe tour (more on that...

Date: 06/22/2007

Windows Live platform discussion on Channel9

Yesterday we released this Channel9 interview with Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe from the Windows Live...

Date: 06/20/2007

I'm back, and going "Live"

Apologies for "going dark". I had to put everything on hold for about a month to deal with the...

Date: 02/16/2007

Using ISearchQueryHelper from managed code

ISearchQueryHelper is a COM interface that can be used to convert from Advanced Query Syntax (AQS)...

Date: 12/06/2006

Advanced Query Syntax: What, Where, Why, and How

What is Advanced Query Syntax and where is it used? Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) is a syntax that...

Date: 12/05/2006

Quick Tip: Manifests AND VC++ Projects

In a recent post, I listed a number of methods for embedding manifests in managed assemblies. As I...

Date: 12/04/2006

Windows Vista Search: Syntax Update

I recently learned some new things about the Search APIs in Windows Vista, including some great...

Date: 11/10/2006

Off to Barcelona for TechEd!

I'm leaving tomorrow for Spain, where I'll be presenting a couple of sessions next week at TechEd...

Date: 11/01/2006

Get the inside scoop on the Vista Bridge Samples

I'm thrilled to report that Jeff Chrisope has finally resumed blogging! Jeff is leading the...

Date: 10/27/2006

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Released

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 has been released to the web. You can download it from one of the...

Date: 10/25/2006

UAC Distilled

As I mentioned in an earlier post (New UAC Whitepaper Released), the UAC team recently published a...

Date: 10/12/2006

EMEA Windows Vista Readiness Tour Content

I recently participated in the first three stops of an EMEA Windows Vista and IE7 Readiness tour,...

Date: 10/11/2006

New UAC whitepaper released

The UAC team just released a new whitepaper last week, with their latest guidance for developers on...

Date: 09/26/2006

How to embed a manifest in an assembly: let me count the ways...

With our current developer tools, there's no immediately obvious way to embed a manifest in a...

Date: 08/24/2006

Windows Vista Search Syntax: WHERE are my predicates?

In my last post, I gave a quick overview of the query syntax for the OLE DB Provider for Windows...

Date: 06/27/2006

A number of people have been asking about Windows Vista search and how to programmatically query the...

Date: 06/21/2006

Tips & Tricks for Going Native on Windows Vista

I’m presenting a session at TechEd Boston next Friday, titled Windows Vista: Tips & Tricks for...

Date: 06/10/2006

Taking the first step

OK - here goes... my first post. I've been meaning to start blogging for a long time and after...

Date: 06/08/2006