Last week I attended a session here in London, where Phil Holden talked about their newest plans. Obviously they have still a lot to do in most areas where other companies have had a head start, like the Search project. Few new things were introduced, although I found their new Fremont classifieds platform pretty interesting — it’s currently in a Microsoft US only testing phase, so it’ll probably be a while until it’s fit for general consumption. A completely different thing that was stressed …

That guy is just pretty cute :-)

When installing add-ins for Visual Studio, a number of different paths can be used. One of them is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvSharedAddins — in a default installation of a US English Windows. Obviously a proper installer would use Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData) to make sure the path is correct for the current system and for the current language. For example, for a German system the result would be `C:\Doku …

As I mentioned elsewhere, I’m working on a DXCore plugin to enable (Tablet PC) ink drawing on the Visual Studio editor surface. A problem I stumbled upon in this regard was the scrolling functionality. Generally this is really easy to implement, using a transformation with the ink renderer. So I had this method:

void UpdateScrollPosition(TextView textView) {
  Point p = new Point(textView.ColumnWidth * textView.HorizontalScrollPosition,
    textView.LineHeight * textView.VerticalScro ...

Well, if I’m wondering about that every now and then, I’m sure some of the more loyal readers of my blog must be wondering the same thing, given the sparse nature of blog updates in recent months. The answer is, since I’ve started working for Developer Express, I’ve been doing that many different things that it’s just hard to keep track of them, and I haven’t found myself with the free time needed to continually update my blog. But I see that this is a Bad Thing and I’ll try to do something abo …

Apparently I am, and I wasn’t aware of that until recently. This is not about methods of closing your fly.

Up until two months ago, I was a satisfied user of a Sony RM-AV3000 remote control, which I had been using for a few years. At the time, the Sony had been a replacement for a much older model from Yamaha and it worked flawlessly for a few years. Then suddenly, it started doing funny things — the most important such thing being that the remote would go …

I’m not going to say too much about it, that would only be misinterpreted as advertising — read the public information yourself here.

I think this is going to be a fantastic product to create business applications (and probably others) with. Only if you’re not (yet?) a Developer Express .NET subscriber, you’re out of luck for now…

Carl Franklin’s show .NET Rocks! now has a TV show — and Developer Express is a sponsor of the first episode. Go watch it!