Monthly Archives: August 2007

2007 Ultimate Developer And Power Users Tool List For Windows

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Bob

If you do any Windows development work and haven’t seen it yet, this list is a must have: Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer And Power Users Tool List For Windows

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Software Defects and the FDA

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Bob

I ran across this post: Why Making Software Companies Liable Will Not Improve Security. It’s a rather long piece that discusses the liability of software makers for security breaches. In the middle of the article he talks about his experience … Continue reading →

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Kernel Object Namespace and Vista

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Bob

Just a quick development note: According to Kernel Object Namespaces objects can have one of three predefined prefixes — ‘Local\’, ‘Global\’, or ‘Session\’. For Win2K/XP I’ve always used the ‘Local\’ prefix, which works fine. My primary use is with a … Continue reading →

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Google, Microsoft, and Health

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Bob

I think the recent New York Time’s article entitled Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care missed the bigger picture. The article talks about other Internet companies (like WebMD), but it does not make any mention of the Federal … Continue reading →

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Developing a real-time data flow and control model with WCF

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Bob

A Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service is defined through its operations and data contracts. One of the major benefits of WCF is the ease with which a client can create and use these services through the automatically generated proxy classes. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Robots and Medicine

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Bob

In this months IEEE Spectrum magazine there’s an interesting article about Microsoft’s efforts in robotics called Robots, Incorporated by Steven Cherry. The article describes the team that created Microsoft Robotics Studio, how the group came to be, some of the … Continue reading →

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SolutionZipper Updated

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Bob

I’ve updated my SolutionZipper source and installer to version 1.3 on CodeProject. Here are the changes: Fixed a bug that was causing SZ to fail during the “Handle external projects” phase. Ignore VC++ Intellisense Database files, i.e. *.ncb. Ignore hidden … Continue reading →

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