Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)

adventures with the Windows Imaging Component

The long awaited Imagine Cup Press Release!

As Julia points out, I had a difficult time telling people that I had won the Imagine Cup since...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/10/2003

Some more information about Imagine Cup

There is finally an official website up for the Image Cup Competition:...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/10/2003

Agreed! Performance is CRITICAL!

Sam points out two great articles on MSDN about Performance considerations when writing Managed...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/07/2003

More bickering on the Java "standards" front

One thing for sure, Java doesn't have the ECMA and ISO standardization that C# and the CLI has. If...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 06/01/2003

More on RSS.NET

I'd like to thank George Tsiokos for adding me to the SourceForge project for the RSS.NET...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/31/2003

Windows CE .NET...

Amidst my Ph.D. Qualifiers, I've been tempted to play with Windows CE .NET 4.1 (not the latest...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/31/2003

Ph.D. Qualifier Exams...

Today I had the first of three parts to my Ph.D. Quals. Let me put it to you this way, they stink....

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/28/2003

RSS .NET

I'm sorta mad at myself now... I spent the past day or two writing my own RSS 2.0 writer, and today...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/26/2003

Seeking revenge?

Try the etherkiller and other misc. "killer" items.

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/26/2003

2003 Salary Survey

I found this in the latest issue of Visual Studio Magazine. It's the 2003 Salary Survey. Pretty cool...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/24/2003

Hmm... not a bad deal...

So, it seems that this Microsoft licensing of SCO that I mentioned in my blog yesterday may actually...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/20/2003

Stony Brook CS Reunion

Wow, I guess this is a sign of getting old. Last night I met up with Prof. Peter Henderson and a few...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/20/2003

Applied XML Conference

Coming soon to a theather near [only a flight away from] you... the Applied XML Conference, July...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/19/2003

Microsoft licenses SCO Unix

Huh?!?! Microsoft is said to be licensing SCO Unix Does this mean that we'll see some changes in...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/19/2003

DFA Tree for .NET

I saw this earlier today. It's a DFA generator for .NET. This looks like a really cool tool for...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/14/2003

More info on my String Normalization algorithm

Starting last Friday I ended up working on a StringNormalizationList data structure that...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/13/2003

I feel bad that...

... I haven't blogged recently. I guess just way too much is going on right now. I've got this one...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/13/2003

Another project...

From the start of this semester I've been also working on what I call a "Name Normalization"...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/05/2003

More info on the International Imagine Cup...

So today I found out that for the International Competition we are allowed to make updates as per...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 05/05/2003

Reactions to the day...

The response to my announcement with regards to being the winner of the Imagine Cup 2003 competition...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/29/2003

Day 2 of 2 @ Microsoft

Ok, this is a bit late, but still relevant. First I'll begin by sending a shot out to Scott for the...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/28/2003

Day 1 of 2 @ Microsoft

It's great being back here at Microsoft. Quite a nostalgic feeling from the last time when I was...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/26/2003

Off to Microsoft later today...

Here comes the news that I've been holding out on for about a week and half now... Microsoft is...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/24/2003

64-bit SQL & Windows 2003 Server

Ok, this is just insane and amazing at the same time! Way to go 64-bit SQL Server on Windows 2003...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/24/2003

In response to...

James writes in his blog about IE and some feature requests... Well a while ago I found this little...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/21/2003

GDI+ Kicks some serious butt!

Within this Photo Album WS, I've been working with GDI+ quite a bit lately... and wow, it really...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/21/2003

Annoying thing happening with AutoScroll...

This AutoScroll feature on controls that are ScrollableControls is pretty neat, but there is a...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/13/2003

Microsoft's Greenwich IM

On Thursday, c|net had an article on Microsoft's planned release of its Greenwich corporate IM...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/12/2003

Ok, I hate to do this but...

I feel really bad doing this... but my Outlook XP decided to corrupt my PST file the other night so...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/12/2003

More on security

After looking through the links to my previous post, I noticed that G. Andrew Duthie referred to it...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/10/2003

Odd error in consuming Web Service

Ok, this is really wierd. In my Photo Album Admin application I call the Photo Album WS. For one of...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/08/2003

Argh!!!

Ok, this weekend I feel like I've gotten no work done. I've been working on class projects. One of...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/06/2003

More updates planned for the Photo Album WS

Last night I wrote a little test app to add copyright/watermarking to a photo. I've wanted to add...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/04/2003

USB LCD for your PC

Ok, I'm thinking to myself... "How cool would it be to have one of the 4 line, blue and white LCDs...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/03/2003

My code's controlled in my Vault

For the longest time I've been meaning to finally purchase Sourcegear's Vault, so finally today I...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/03/2003

Aw yeah!

Woohoo!! C# gets ISO standardization! This is certainly a huge win for the entire .NET and C#...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003

Some interest in the Photo Album WS

There has been some interest by some out there in my Photo Album WS. As promised, I would delve into...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003

Always something with memory management...

I've been working on this Photo Album Web Service for some time now. I started it about a year ago,...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/02/2003

Thank you Scott!

First, I'd like to thank Scott for generously providing this blog space. I've wanted to start...

Author: Robert A. Wlodarczyk Date: 04/01/2003

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