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Windows Camp Demo, Part Two 25 Jun 2012 | 11:15 am
In my previous post, we set up a C++ WinRT component project and a C# Metro style XAML app to use the component. The code was dinky Hello, world type stuff. Now, let’s do something a little more inter...
Ambiguous ExtensionAttribute Errors 21 Jun 2012 | 11:46 am
I was recently contacted by Nathanael Jones of the ImageResizer project about a question he had posted on Stack Overflow: How can a single .NET assembly, targeting 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5 concurr...
Windows Camp Demo, Part One 20 Jun 2012 | 11:13 am
Several weeks ago, I did a talk on building Windows Runtime components in C++. As part of that talk, I did a demo that showed accessing a WinRT component written in C++ from a C# XAML application. Lik...
Building WinRT Components with C++/CX 9 Jun 2012 | 05:25 am
I don’t get out to talk to customers like I used to in previous jobs. <sigh> But a few weeks ago, I got a chance to do a session at Channel 9′s Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ Windows C...
My //build Talk 7 Oct 2011 | 03:17 am
I just realized that while I posted the demo steps from my //build talk, I never posted the talk itself here on DevHawk. Consider that oversight rectified with this post. (Note, the static image belo...
Using WinRT from C# //build Demo 16 Sep 2011 | 04:39 am
Yesterday at //build, Jesse Kaplan and I delivered the Using Windows Runtime from C# and Visual Basic talk. In the talk, I demonstrated how natural and familiar it is to use WinRT from C# by building ...
The Windows Runtime 16 Sep 2011 | 02:40 am
After nearly 2 years of not being able to tell anyone what I was working on – or even the name of the team I was on! – //build is finally here and the Windows 8 developer preview is finally out there ...
Open Position On My Team 16 Jun 2011 | 05:58 am
My team is hiring. I don’t have a link to the job description on the Microsoft Careers site yet, but the job description is below. Interested? Send me mail. IC PM2/Senior Program Manager Position in...
Using Task in ASP.NET MVC Today 20 May 2011 | 01:44 pm
I’ve been experimenting with the new async support coming in the next version of C# (and VB). I must say, I’m very impressed. Async is one of those things you know you’re supposed to be doing. However...
Build Your Own WDS Discovery Image 20 May 2011 | 01:19 am
Given that I work on the Windows team, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we use Windows Deployment Services to distribute Windows images internally. For most machines, it’s really convenient. You t...
