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Build Your Own WDS Discovery Image
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...
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Using Task in ASP.NET MVC Today
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,...
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Open Position On My Team
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...
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The Windows Runtime
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...
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Using WinRT from C# //build Demo
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 a...
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My //build Talk
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 below...
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Building WinRT Components with C++/CX
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++...
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Windows Camp Demo, Part One
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. Like...
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Ambiguous ExtensionAttribute Errors
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...
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Windows Camp Demo, Part Two
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...
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Brokered Component Wake On Callback Demo Video
As you might imagine, I had a pretty amazing time @Build. The only thing that went wrong all week was when one of my demos in my session failed. It’s was pretty cool demo – the brokered WinRT component...
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An Architecture Aware VsVars.ps1
Like many in the Microsoft dev community, I’m a heavy user of Visual Studio andPowershell. And so, of course, I’ve been a heavy user Chris Tavares’ vsvars32.ps1 script. However, recently I needed the...
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Brokered WinRT Components Step-by-Step
Based on the feedback I’ve gotten since my keynote appearance @ Build– both in person and via email & twitter – there are a lot of folks who are excited about the Brokered WinRT Component feature....
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Brokered WinRT Components Step One
In this step, we’ll build the brokered component itself. Frankly, the only thing that makes a brokered component different than a normal WinRT component is some small tweaks to the project file to...
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Brokered WinRT Components Step Two
Now that we have built the brokered component , we have to build a proxy/stub for it. Proxies and stubs are how WinRT method calls are marshalled across process boundaries. If you want to know more –...
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Brokered WinRT Components Step Three
So far, we’ve created two projects, written all of about two lines of code and we have both our brokered component and itsproxy/stub ready to go. Now it’s time to build the Windows Runtime app that...
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Yet More Change for the Capitals
Six years ago, I was pretty excited about the future for the Washington Capitals. They had just lost their first round match up with the Flyers – which was a bummer – but they had made the playoffs for...
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Go Ahead, Call It a Comeback
It's been a looooong time, but I finally got around to geting DevHawk back online. It's hard to believe that it's been over a year sincemy last post. Lots has happened in that time!First off, I've...
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The Brilliant Magic of Edge.js
In my post relaunching DevHawk, I mentioned that the site is written entirely in C# except for about 30 lines of JavaScript. Like many modern web content systems, Hawk uses Markdown. I write blog posts...
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Hawk Notes, Volume 1
This is the first in a series of blog posts about Hawk, the engine that powers this site. My plan is to make a post like this for every significant update to the site. We'll see well that plan works.I...
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