Andrew Ma's WebLog
TFS 2008 export to Project 2010 beta1
Last week, I was fighting with TFS 2008 export to Project for a while and was unable to find a...
Date: 09/21/2009
From Search to XNA
One of the great things about working for Microsoft is the variety of things that someone can work...
Date: 10/17/2008
Windows Live Search - Products
It's been 6 months from the last time I posted about Product Searching in Windows Live Search. Our...
Date: 10/02/2007
More Images, More Relevant
The Product Search team is still hard at work. Imran and Ling give some details on some relevancy...
Date: 04/19/2007
Product Search Grid View
Sorry for being so silent on this blog, but we've been hard at work on product search. A lot of it...
Date: 08/31/2006
Windows Live Shopping Beta released today
Sorry for being so quiet for such a long time, but we've been hard at work to provide a great new...
Date: 04/29/2006
New Window Live Shopping gadget
A small group of coworkers on my team have been working on a Windows Live gadget and today, the...
Date: 02/13/2006
Who loves start.com? Introducing live.com
Today, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie announced a new strategy for Microsoft into the service space....
Date: 11/01/2005
Removing an offline folder share
Tonight, I remapped some of my redirected folders (my docs and desktop) and after that happened, the...
Date: 08/18/2005
Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Connector for the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0
One of my tasks in the MSN Shopping group is the our test automation. I helped create our small lab...
Date: 08/15/2005
InfoPath C# Node binding Controls tips
I got a request earlier today to help out with writing a node-binding C# control for InfoPath and I...
Date: 08/01/2005
Windows Desktop Search Deskbar Shortcuts (creating one for MSN Shopping)
One of the features I like about Windows Desktop Search is the ability to create shortcuts for the...
Date: 07/18/2005
Beta MSN Shopping site (Part II)
Months ago, I wrote up a tiny blog entry about a preview of our upcoming MSN Shopping website....
Date: 07/15/2005
Creating an InfoPath Custom Control using C# and .NET
A while ago, I helped write an article for the InfoPath team on how to write InfoPath Custom...
Date: 07/01/2005
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of news about this, but I think it's exciting to have this powertoy...
Date: 06/14/2005
MSN Shopping Team Blog
MSN Shopping's got our own team blog. There's a lot of exciting things happening for our next major...
Date: 06/14/2005
Windows Marketplace RSS Feeds
Windows Marketplace RSS Feeds"Coming to a Desktop Near You!Windows Marketplace can now deliver—right...
Date: 04/06/2005
Do you really like online shopping? Come contribute to MSN Shopping
Online shopping is a $26 billion dollar market (I didn't do much research here beyond a simple MSN...
Date: 03/08/2005
What do you think of this new site?
The MSN Shopping team has recently pushed out a beta version of our upcoming shopping site. The site...
Date: 02/17/2005
Showing images on XP-styled buttons.
The other day, I decided to enable visual styles on one of my winform apps and found out that doing...
Date: 01/21/2005
Custom Control webcast sample
Hello again, For those of you who went to my webcast this morning, thanks for coming. There was a...
Date: 11/29/2004
From InfoPath to MSN Shopping
Some of you (but probably not many of you) have noticed the little small bio on the side has changed...
Date: 11/19/2004
Webcast
For those of you who follow the InfoPath blog, this won't be new information. (It was posted here:...
Date: 11/18/2004
Pocket PC Phone Edition Ringtone scripting
So the other day, I got myself HP iPaq 6315. In the past, I had a Motorola Mpx200 and it was great,...
Date: 11/07/2004
MSDN Hands-on Lab 6 ... the Visual Basic 6.0 version
On MSDN, InfoPath has hands-on labs. The ActiveX control lab was one that I was responsible for....
Date: 08/13/2004
Lab 6: Active X controls (with Visual Basic 6.0)
Due to popular request, this lab is the Visual Basic 6.0 version of the ActiveX lab on MSDN (with...
Date: 08/12/2004
Instant Messengers
It's pretty amazing to see how instant messengers have entered a lot of people's lives. Personally,...
Date: 08/04/2004
Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 Available!
Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 is now available! Link:...
Date: 07/27/2004
Random Wednesday Posts
It's still pretty early in the morning, but I found a bunch of things I'd like to post up. I have a...
Date: 07/21/2004
Digital Music Subscription services
Recently, I bought myself a Creative Muvo2 digital music device. It's a 4 gig device which is way...
Date: 07/19/2004
Media Centers and .Text Skins
Portable Media CentersI've been holding out buying an iPod because most of my music is in WMA and I...
Date: 07/14/2004
4th type of custom control binding
Ok, I said there were three types of custom control binding: simple binding, stream binding and node...
Date: 07/13/2004
InfoPath Posts
Since I work for the Microsoft Office InfoPath team, I spend the majority of my work day using...
Date: 07/12/2004
Why does my ActiveX control say that it needs to be marked as safe for initializing?
InfoPath custom controls can use a subset of ActiveX controls. This subset must implement...
Date: 07/12/2004
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part III - Node Binding)
Continuing (from Part II) on, we will discuss the third type of binding available to ActiveX...
Date: 07/09/2004
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part II - Stream Binding)
Continuing (from Part I) on, we will discuss the second type of binding available to ActiveX...
Date: 07/08/2004
Custom Control support in InfoPath (Part I - Simple Binding)
Over the last year and a half, the InfoPath team has been working on the SP1 release. If anyone's...
Date: 07/07/2004
Some great examples from the community
For those looking for InfoPath resources beyond stuff directly from Microsoft, InfoPathdev.com has...
Date: 06/24/2004
Xml Serialization
Object serialization is an important topic which is quite powerful if used correctly. Serialization...
Date: 06/23/2004
"Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003" book
Recently, this book was released. It's one of the first ones to cover the additional features for...
Date: 06/23/2004
InfoPath newsgroups!
For those who need help with InfoPath related questions, a good place to always go to is the public...
Date: 05/28/2004
AUTD - Always up to date
Windows Mobile devices are great! Maybe because love gagets, but Windows Mobile has some really neat...
Date: 05/28/2004
XML Serialization is great
I moved this post to an article here: https://blogs.msdn.com/ajma/articles/163940.aspx
Date: 05/03/2004
Distribute an InfoPath Form Template to Offline Users
Distribute an InfoPath Form Template to Offline Users seems to be a pretty big scenario for a lot of...
Date: 05/03/2004
Busy Busy Week
Wow, this was an incredibly busy week. A lot of meetings, a lot of reviews, a lot of brainstorming,...
Date: 04/30/2004
A non-InfoPath post
Since most InfoPath posts would be better off in the InfoPath Team blog, I thought should blog about...
Date: 04/29/2004
InfoPath Custom Controls that don't fire OnPropertyChange Notifications
InfoPath has a really powerful feature to allow users to create their own custom controls for...
Date: 04/29/2004
Standard First Post
So this is another standard first post. Introduction: My name is Andrew Ma and I currently work in...
Date: 04/26/2004