28 January 2012 0 Comments

Criando a experiência do usuário na Windows Store

Tivemos a oportunidade de demonstrar aspectos da experiência da Store em alguns eventos recentes: na nossa conferência //build/, no evento Store Preview e na CES.

5 August 2009 0 Comments

Rumor Has It: Apple Set to Go Toe-to-Toe With PayPal

Most recent Apple rumors are focused on upcoming new hardware, including new iPod touch and nano models with a built-in camera, and the mysterious tablet device , which has often been rumored, but seems to be gaining lots of steam this time around. Yesterday, another interesting rumor surfaced, but this latest speculation has nothing to do with hardware. According to sources on Wall Street, as reported by Silicon Alley Insider , Apple is thinking about moving in on PayPal’s territory

4 August 2009 0 Comments

An App Store for the Mac? Say Hello to Bodega

The idea of an App Store for the Mac is nothing new but finally, one company is transitioning the idea from a website to an actual application. Bodega , inspired by the Spanish word for “small convenience store,” is a freeware app that does just what we want: It acts as a storefront to lots of great applications for the Mac. The storefront itself is organized much like a store, with applications represented by their icons residing on “shelves.” This is a bit of an adjustment, as immediately my instinct is to prefer something organized more like iTunes with a more minimal UI and a greater focus within each category of which apps are popular

14 July 2009 0 Comments

Local messaging in SL 3 is nice, but…

Why is there no inherent serialization support for normal object graphs like in the attached example. The attached example is a basic page with two simple vector caclulators. Entering a vector dimension of three in the part named “Add”, filling out a few values, press calculate, you get:  Press “Send arguments” and the arguments are send to the other app.

22 April 2009 0 Comments

Apple: You Can’t Use Images of the iPhone on the iPhone

In a move that at this point honestly shouldn’t come as unexpected, Apple recently rejected an update to the popular app Instapaper that allows storage of web content for offline viewing at a later date. The reason for the rejection

12 April 2009 0 Comments

How to: Copy workspace mappings?

A common scenario that you may see is the need to share/sync workspace mappings amongst team members. A developer adds a new dependency in a certain project and changes his/her mappings to get this library, and everyone else in the team now needs to do the same thing

11 April 2009 0 Comments

Asynchronous delegates and callback

I was debugging some issue related to asynchronous delegates and wanted to share that information with everyone.   When you do a BeginInvoke the delegate is invoked on a thread from the thread pool and on completion the callback is also called on the same thread pool thread.

10 April 2009 0 Comments

Catch the security flaw #6

If you can find the security issue with this piece of code, write about it by adding a comment to this blog post. This is the scenario:- 1. There is a Web site that allows end users to upload their pictures

7 April 2009 0 Comments

Short Gotcha When Working With Extent Initialization In ‘M’

Not just in order to show that this Blog is still alive but also because it may be a little useful hint for all of you doing the first steps with M, the language of the Oslo Developer Center . As you might already know you can create data models with M which are parsed and transformed into T-SQL Reference by the M-Parser.

1 April 2009 0 Comments

Getting ready for Beta1 and VSTT 2008 Quick Reference Guide Released

As we continue to prepare for Beta 1, we continue to talk with customers, demo the product and get feedback. The feedback is usually:”Hey, this is great stuff, when can I get it?

27 March 2009 0 Comments

?contents=1

Another one to remember when troubleshooting SharePoint pages. Allows you to get to the webparts on the page in a manner to see if one is crapping out the rest of the past. appending the ?contents=1 to your page url will open the “Web Part Page Maintenance: default    Use this page to close Web Parts on your page, restore defaults to Web Parts, or delete Web Parts from your page.

25 March 2009 0 Comments

How to forward to Internet recipients without creating an internal mail-enabled contact – Part 2

I was recently asked by a HMC customer to see if this solution [ http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2008/04/09/how-to-forward-to-internet-recipients-without-creating-an-internal-mail-enabled-contact.aspx ] would work for Exchange 2007 as it did work on Exchange 2003.