Jeff Abraham's WebLog
Pseudo-random posts on Media Center, with occasional flashbacks to Visual Studio.
Netflix in Windows Media Center - Double tiles
If you are seeing two Netflix tiles in Windows Media Center after installing the app, then try going...
Date: 05/21/2009
Airline food in all its glory
I'm heading to Australia with Katherine for Christmas, and while looking for ways to make travel a...
Date: 12/05/2007
Why don't I have the command/menu in Visual Studio 2005/2008?
VS 2005/2008 have a dialog that shows up on first launch (the first launch dialog if you will) that...
Date: 07/27/2007
Shiny new bits available
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available. Go wild....
Date: 07/26/2007
Raymond on helper functions
Working on the Visual Studio Tool Platform team, we do a lot of work on making VS extensible and...
Date: 07/10/2007
Using VS (instead of WinDbg) to debug application startup
This is another one of those things that I forget all the time, so I'm posting here as a way of...
Date: 05/10/2007
Break on dll load in Visual Studio
Thanks to Kara Ottowell (I think I relearn this trick every two or three years, posting here so I...
Date: 04/05/2007
Creating Visual C++ wizards
Project types other than C++ use another wizard mechanism, but if you're extending VC, you probably...
Date: 03/07/2007
Are you having issues creating native projects?
If you've tried to create a smart device Win32 project on Windows Vista or after installing IE7, you...
Date: 02/14/2007
CLR addins blog is live
For those of you building applications with significant plugin architectures, this is definitely a...
Date: 01/12/2007
VS2005 SP1 is out the door!
Yes folks, it's ready. Get it while it's still hot from the oven....
Date: 12/15/2006
Rico talks about adding performance data to method signatures
Date: 12/11/2006
Visual Studio on Windows Vista
I just found this link in email, and thought it would prove handy to you lucky MSDN subscribers who...
Date: 11/17/2006
More VS2005 keybinding information: Build.BuildOnlyProject and Build.BuildSelection
There are a very large number of commands in Visual Studio 2005, and some of them operate in ways...
Date: 10/19/2006
Is there a way to change VS 2005 bookmark navigation to restrict it to the current document?
This came up on one of the internal mailing lists. Is there a way to restrict Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P...
Date: 10/16/2006
Why doesn't Visual Studio respond to keypresses?
Has Visual Studio 2005 stopped responding to arrow keys, do shortcut keys not work anymore? Only...
Date: 10/05/2006
Does the convenience of your blogging tool make a difference?
Here's hoping that it does. I've been a pretty lazy blogger recently, but I've got what I view as a...
Date: 07/13/2006
What to do if VS crashes without showing the Watson dialog
These steps are modified from instructions sent out by Paul Harrington, a dev lead on the VS Tools...
Date: 06/11/2006
Windows Live Local fun...
https://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.637604~-122.133257&style=h&lvl=15&scene...
Date: 05/24/2006
Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2006 Europe is coming up in June
Normally I try to avoid putting any sort of marketroid material up here (if you were to look at my...
Date: 04/28/2006
Debugging "Registration failed with error 0x8973190e"
I've seen a few reports lately of people having issues when they set the "register output" property...
Date: 04/24/2006
Device JIT debugging
It's inconvenient to have a debugger attached to your device all the time, so why not take advantage...
Date: 04/04/2006
Static analysis on native device projects (sort of...)
We didn't have time to do a proper implementation of the static analysis tools from Visual Studio...
Date: 04/04/2006
Debugging a kdmp file retrieved from your device.
I saw a post on one of our development forums asking how to debug a crash dump file (e.g. foo.kdmp)....
Date: 04/04/2006
ActiveSync 4.1 released to the web
I found out via Jason Landridge's blog,...
Date: 11/18/2005
Interesting new record label: Cordless
I don't have any musical talent, but I've always been interested in the music industry. Jac Holzman...
Date: 11/10/2005
Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 servicing plans
Scott Wiltamuth (the Product Unit Manager for the C# team) has a post on his blog...
Date: 11/09/2005
Deploy and debug against a custom embedded device without ActiveSync
Those of you who have been developing for devices for a few years might remember how painful it was...
Date: 11/01/2005
We've shipped...
Well, everyone else was doing it, so I had to add my own post announcing that we've shipped, for...
Date: 10/31/2005
My new Windows Media Center PC
I'm a huge nerd. This is the reason that I'm compelled to do things like replace my TiVo with a...
Date: 10/25/2005
Blog weirdness
Apparently there was some default setting causing email notification when comments are left on the...
Date: 10/10/2005
Yet another place to check for answers...
I'm not sure that everyone out there is aware of these, so here's a quick plug for the MSDN forums...
Date: 09/15/2005
Insight into Visual C++ for Devices: Design philosophies
Now with 30% more intangibles! Like every other product out there, we need to balance ease of use...
Date: 09/12/2005
Insight into VC++ for Devices - Solution level platforms, settings, deployment toolbar
Given that I helped to ship Visual C++ for Devices (VCD) to an unsuspecting development community,...
Date: 09/12/2005
eVC upgrade wizard for VS 2005 Beta2 is available
NOTE: this add-in/patch is only required for Beta2. If you have a CTP, or the RC build beyond Beta2,...
Date: 06/15/2005
Back in Redmond, MEDC is over
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to talk to the VSD team at MEDC in Las Vegas....
Date: 05/16/2005
ActiveSync 4.0 Developer Preview is now available
Apparently ActiveSync 4.0 Developer Preview is now available as a download:...
Date: 05/12/2005
Configuring the device emulator for network connectivity inside VPC
Guest blogger VladF takes over for a moment to talk about the device emulator network connectivity...
Date: 05/10/2005
Using VCBuild.exe with device projects
A very savvy user logged a bug against VS2005 Beta 2 to let us know that VCBuild.exe wasn't working...
Date: 05/09/2005
VSD in Las Vegas
Just a quick note, about 15 members of the Visual Studio for Devices team are at Mobile and Embedded...
Date: 05/09/2005
Building ARM assembly source from within VS 2005
This is a little bit ugly, but it does the job. An unfortunate side effect of this build rule is...
Date: 03/31/2005
Visual C++ for Devices changes in Beta 2
First off, sorry for not blogging for an extended period of time, but the good news is that we've...
Date: 03/31/2005
VCD: Code signing is implemented
Well, code signing is implemented and I'm waiting on a code review before checking it in. This...
Date: 07/09/2004
New deployment model for Visual Studio for Devices
So, even though you don't have your hands on the beta yet, we're already addressing your concerns....
Date: 05/26/2004
Visual C++ for Devices Beta 1 features (and I'm a bad person who doesn't blog enough)
Okay, so I'm a bad person who doesn't blog enough. This entry has actually been mostly done for a...
Date: 05/26/2004
How should deployment work in VC++ for Devices?
Hey, given the great feedback we got from Josh's new project questions, we're going to pose another...
Date: 02/19/2004
Developing for multiple platforms at the same time...
So, the next version of the IDE will support multiple platforms per project, including Win32 and...
Date: 02/05/2004