See what I see.

The ramblings of Kristopher Makey.

Playing with Genetics

Genetic Algorithms that is: I've been toying with the ideas related to adaptive...

Date: 09/03/2010

The subtle scent of change still wafting in the air.

So It’s been nearly four years at Microsoft here for me.  I’ve had a great tenure working on...

Date: 05/08/2010

Looking to the future, anticipating the next version of VSTO.

As we start to see that hazy object that is the “next version” of VSTO coalesce into an actual...

Date: 01/22/2010

Where did my permission set controls go?

I’m going to diverge a bit off the VSTO path and talk about a more generic ClickOnce story. If you...

Date: 05/20/2009

Enterprise Level Deployment of VSTO Solutions: Deployment Design

It's been a while, I'm not really interested in going to the details of why at the moment, lets dig...

Date: 04/08/2009

VS 2008 SP1 and VSTO, why you should be seriously considering installation.

I'm not going to go into detail about everything in the VS 2008 SP1 package, but what I would like...

Date: 10/03/2008

A day at the movies.

It's been quiet.  I've been super busy with a lot of things.  Some things I can talk about...

Date: 09/02/2008

In the Before of the Beginning: Custom Prerequisites for VSTO ClickOnce (part II).

In my last post I talked about the first steps to building my Customer Prerequisite.  In it, I...

Date: 07/30/2008

In the Before of the Beginning: Custom Prerequisites for VSTO ClickOnce (part I).

In January I talked about using Custom Prerequisites to add a little more specialization to the VSTO...

Date: 07/18/2008

MSI VSTO Deployment revealed

For the past couple of months I have been avoiding talking too much on this blog about about...

Date: 06/09/2008

One-Shot customizations, but we're not VBA.

Last week I had the pleasure of getting some very interesting feedback from some of the Microsoft...

Date: 04/22/2008

Click-Once forced updates in VSTO II: A fuller solution

  Last Week I talked about user-generated updates and the Click-Once Deployment Management...

Date: 04/18/2008

Click-Once forced updates in VSTO: Some things we don't recommend using, that you might consider anyway.

Before I go any further in this post I'm going to put a huge disclaimer:  You should be warned...

Date: 04/10/2008

VSTO 3.0 and .NET 3.5

From time to time I will come across (via various channels) a question of why VSTO 3.0 requires the...

Date: 03/20/2008

If memory serves me correctly...

Memory is king and he who remembers the most rules will rule the most (not a real quote but it...

Date: 03/07/2008

Delaying the inevitable.

Just a micro update: Ade Miller has an excellent post on how to delay sign vsto dll's. You can see...

Date: 03/04/2008

Words and more words and words... on Word.

Generally I talk about vsto deployment here, this is mainly due to the simple limitation that what I...

Date: 02/29/2008

Power to the People.

I have some excellent news for any VSTO developers out there. We've released the first set of Power...

Date: 02/21/2008

Delayed.

I'm not prepared to talk about anything interesting this week. I've been busy with several things...

Date: 02/09/2008

Being Pushy with VSTO ClickOnce

The other day I was in a meeting and it was mentioned that the new VSTO Deployment model didn't...

Date: 02/01/2008

Searches.

If you got to this page you were probably searching on some of the following phrases: VSTO,...

Date: 01/24/2008

Starting and Putting

Because of the complexity and depth that installation stories can have it seems like it is very easy...

Date: 01/24/2008

A little more about Kris.

A dose of intent: In general I don't want to cover a lot about myself directly in the blog entries....

Date: 01/17/2008

Searching for that special thing and some other hints.

I haven't talked much about what I do here at Microsoft. To be honest I'm not going to go too far...

Date: 01/17/2008

Miscellaneous things.

I don't have a over arching theme for this post. This last week has been a little strange in pace...

Date: 01/11/2008

Returns and Specialization

It seems like it’s the season of returns. I’ve returned from Idaho which is where I was returned the...

Date: 01/03/2008

My trusted secret inner circle.

Before I jump right in, I want to give some major credit to the author of the MSDN articles that...

Date: 12/19/2007

The passphrase is "Install already": A new look at VSTO Security.

I've tried to start this post about ten times now, and honestly, the problem is that it's a little...

Date: 12/16/2007

Untangling the Terminology

Originally I was planning on jumping right into some gory details about security model when I...

Date: 12/16/2007

Prospectus, Manifesto, Meaning and Intent.

Welcome to my blog. First, an initial introduction: My name is Kristopher Makey, though typically I...

Date: 12/14/2007