Archives
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XmlLite and Windows XP Service Pack 3
The April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine included an article I wrote about the excellent XmlLite parser for native C++ developers. In October of that year I wrote about the lack of a redistributable for Windows XP. Although the XML team at Microsoft told me that they hoped to provide a redistributable it never did materialize.
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Windows with C++: Windows Imaging Component (Part 2 of ... oops!)
In April 2007 MSDN Magazine published part 1 of a 3 part series of articles on the Windows Imaging Component. Part 1 provides a good introduction to using WIC to encode and decode various image formats using this new imaging API. Part 2 and 3 were meant to show you how to extend WIC with your own image formats. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work out as planned.
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MSDN Link Spring Cleaning
Every year or so the folks who manage the MSDN and TechNet websites decide to update the site is some way and pretty much break every single URL referring to their content. Traditionally this hasn’t affected MSDN Magazine but the magazine now joins the club and older links to MSDN Magazine articles no longer work either.
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Quick Update
I’m doing some traveling over the next few days and will unfortunately be offline for most of that time. I will be back online on Tuesday so if you’ve sent me an email, please don’t expect a response before then.
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Window Clippings 2.1: How to open the Options Window
Did you know there are three ways to open the options window?
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Window Clippings: A note to Microsoft employees
It looks like the public mail servers used for receiving mail sent to @microsoft.com addresses are regularly blocking the emails that are sent automatically with your Window Clippings license keys. In these cases I need to manually send an email with your license key.
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Beef Up Windows Apps with the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack
Back in December of last year the Visual C++ team asked me to write an article for MSDN Magazine about the new Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack. Well the article has finally made it into print in the May 2008 issue and you can also read it online.
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Special offer for Paint.NET users
To promote the new integration between Paint.NET and Window Clippings, Rick and I are offering a special deal to Paint.NET users. For the month of May we’re offering Window Clippings at a special discounted price!
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Window Clippings 2.1: Send to Paint.NET
Earlier this week I hinted at a surprise new feature that was introduced with the 2.1.28 build of Window Clippings. I can now tell you what it is!