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Category Archives: Microsoft

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Windows Phone 7 – XAML designer fails to resolve font resources

24August2010GeekTieGuyMicrosoft, Software development, Windows Phone 7

This evening I was attempting to go through the first lab of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and discovered that I couldn’t even finish the first exercise because Visual Studio wouldn’t resolve the resources for the fonts used in the project. Nothing showed up in the XAML designer view, so I couldn’t follow

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Windows Phone 7 Series – home-roll an offline installer

7April2010GeekTieGuyMicrosoft, Software

[Update 2010-08-01: The beta version of the phone tools comes with an offline installer ISO image (WPDTBeta_en.iso), so you no longer need these steps.] [Update 2010-05-05: I originally wrote this for the CTP that worked with VS2010 RC. Now that an updated set of tools has been released to work with VS2010 RTM, the folder name

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HP TouchSmart SDK 3.0 – Giveaways at PDC 09

17November2009GeekTieGuy1 CommentHP TouchSmart, Microsoft, Software, Software development, Windows 7, WPF

To mark the release of the TouchSmart 3.0 SDK, HP has a goodie to give away at the Microsoft PDC 09: A super-slim 2 GB USB memory stick (embedded in a hard-plastic business card with a nice imprint). It contains the new SDK and a few documents about a software development partner program HP is

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Microsoft also had an OS code-named “Tiger”: OS/2 1.3

7August2009GeekTieGuy4 CommentsMicrosoft, Software

As evidenced by this scan of one of the setup disks:   (Someone was cleaning up a bunch of old floppy disks at work. I happened to come across them because I needed a floppy for updating the BIOS of a really old laptop.) Just an interesting little factoid for your geek trivia…

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