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A code monkey in Research

One developer's view of (a little bit of) Microsoft Research, Cambridge

More easy IPC

Last time I talked about .NET Remoting and concluded that it was very nice for .NET to .NET...

Date: 04/07/2014

Easy peasy IPC-sy

Windows provides a wide range of inter process communication mechanisms, from very low level sockets...

Date: 02/22/2014

Phone magic

If you've never come across Scam School before, do take a look at it - it normally offers a bit of...

Date: 01/19/2014

I've only ever written one application

Actually, I mean, I've only ever written one application startup - in the same way I've only ever...

Date: 11/17/2013

NoReplyAll Lite

So far, all of the Office add-in work I've been talking about here has been based on VSTO, but some...

Date: 10/13/2013

Collecting URLs part 2

Using Ctrl-Shift-C is quick and convenient, but only if you remember it; and moving the mouse...

Date: 09/14/2013

Collecting URLs

Another one of those itches that need to be scratched: someone posted a query internally asking for...

Date: 08/17/2013

NoReplyAll Add-In 3.1

A new release is available today: fixed some resource locking problems, added support for 64 bit...

Date: 08/02/2013

Add-in for 64 and 32 bit Office

My NoReplyAll add-in, which I've talked about before, uses absolutely nothing that ties it to 32 or...

Date: 07/12/2013

Talking to myself

Someone at work here presented me with a poser: make Outlook include one's own email address as a...

Date: 06/09/2013

Doppler Four

Last time I had the basic Windows Store DirectX Doppler app working, and now it's time to add the...

Date: 05/08/2013

Doppler Three

The Doppler waves program has two bits of UI really: the "dynamic" wave drawing part, and the user...

Date: 04/06/2013

Windows Phone lockscreen

Windows Phone 8 brings with it the ability for a program to set the lockscreen picture; there are...

Date: 03/09/2013

NoReplyAll Add-In 3.0

A new version of the add-in is now available. The significant change is in the installation process,...

Date: 02/14/2013

WiX installer for VSTO projects

A few people have been asking me for something akin to an MSI-based installer for my NoReplyAll tool...

Date: 01/27/2013

Doppler Two

Last time, I talked about a WPF application to demonstrate the Doppler effect; this time I'm going...

Date: 12/30/2012

Research Next

Research Next is a chance for us at Microsoft Research Cambridge to show off some of the work we do...

Date: 11/29/2012

Doppler One

Professor Chris Bishop is well known round here for giving entertaining science talks aimed at young...

Date: 11/10/2012

Is your "new" menu too long?

Something that I find annoying is how many programs add items to the Windows Explorer "New" submenu...

Date: 10/06/2012

Updating NoReplyAll for Outlook 2013

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Outlook 2013 brings a few new features which I need to integrate...

Date: 09/08/2012

NoReplyAll Add-In 2.6.1

A new version is now available for download: this one supports the Outlook 2013 preview, and...

Date: 08/20/2012

Version number update tool for Visual Studio 2012

Quite a while ago I presented a scrappy little macro I created to update version numbers in multiple...

Date: 08/04/2012

Outlook 2013 and NoReplyAll

As I'm sure you've noticed by now, the Office 2013 Preview is now available. I've given my...

Date: 07/18/2012

There's more to Outlook than MailItems

I've published a new version of the NoReplyAll Outlook add-in with pretty much the only change being...

Date: 07/01/2012

AppNap settings page

The setting page for AppNap is a rather modified version of button list the main page: instead of...

Date: 06/17/2012

AppNap user interface

The AppNap main page content is pretty much a grid with three elements - the search box, the list of...

Date: 05/27/2012

AppNap data

Following on from last time, I thought I'd start by describing the persisted data for AppNap, which...

Date: 05/12/2012

NoReplyAll Add-In 2.4.2

A new version of the add-in is now available - head to...

Date: 05/03/2012

How many search apps do you need on your phone?

When I go searching the web from a desktop browser, I'm lazy. I head straight to a search engine and...

Date: 03/17/2012

NoReplyAll Add-In 2.4.1

A new version of the add-in is now available - head to...

Date: 01/17/2012

When is an Explorer not an Explorer?

RJGray found another error in the NoReplyAll add-in: basically, visiting the Today Page causes the...

Date: 01/17/2012

Project Waterloo wrap-up

The last few blog posts have been a rapid walkthrough of our Facebook game. To wrap up, here's the...

Date: 01/15/2012

The client side of the game

I'm not really going to go into much detail about the client - it's fairly standard "modern" HTML...

Date: 01/08/2012

Connecting with Facebook

There are several ways to integrate your application with Facebook: you can have a standalone...

Date: 11/26/2011

NoReplyAll Add-In 2.4.0

A new version of the add-in is now available - head to...

Date: 11/15/2011

The core of the game service

Last time, I gave an outline of our Facebook game: now I'm going to take a look at the "game...

Date: 11/13/2011

Introduction to Project Waterloo

As I hinted earlier, I'm finally getting round to describing how we implemented our first Facebook...

Date: 11/06/2011

Careful with that Outbox, Eugene

Someone called Chris_is_tired alerted me to a problem with my NoReplyAll Outlook add-in recently: if...

Date: 10/30/2011

Hidden vs Minimized

Writing that post about pausing audio playback reminded me of a little utility I wrote, uh, over a...

Date: 10/16/2011

Visual Studio macro to update version numbers

My first few blog posts were essentially about taking a macro (almost) solution and reimplementing...

Date: 10/09/2011

Shaddapayaface!

If you've got music playing on your PC and then you lock the desktop, the music keeps playing....

Date: 10/02/2011

Microsoft Research Project Waterloo

The Research Games team in Microsoft Research, of which I'm a member, has just published its first...

Date: 09/25/2011

NoReply VSTO add-in wrap-up

Over the past few weeks, I've described the steps involved in creating an Outlook add-in, including...

Date: 09/18/2011

Installation

As you'll have no doubt noticed, when you build and run within Visual Studio, Outlook loads the...

Date: 09/10/2011

Backstage and property pages

In the discussion so far the add-in requires the sender to remember to click the no-reply-all button...

Date: 09/02/2011

Other ribbons

Thus far we've ended up with a nicely populated mail composition window. It would be nice to offer...

Date: 08/27/2011

More about buttons

Last time we ended up with a single button on the email composition window. It ought to be fairly...

Date: 08/20/2011

Out of Bounds

Several years ago, I stumbled across the concept of Out of Bounds Photography (OoB - that's with a...

Date: 08/13/2011

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