The Microsoft Interview
Last week (10/19/07) I ended up going on an interview with Microsoft to try and obtain a position as a Software Development Engineer. Microsoft ended up flying me out and putting me into a hotel for...
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Working at Microsoft
It is currently a little over a month into my full time employment at Microsoft, and I am extremely pleased with everything that I am working on. For those that don’t know yet, I work on the installer...
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Riding The Connector
Just after my move to Seattle, my Indiana license plates expired which has left me without a car. Although an awesome benefit from Microsoft is a free bus pass, they also have this amazing bus that...
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Visual Studio Cannot Enumerate Resources in the Executable
Ever get the following error message when opening a PE file? Turns out that if you have custom resource types, the names of the resources in that type cannot be lower case. As you see in this example,...
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An Overview of the Windows Live Installer
Over the past six months, I have been working on the Windows Live Installer, and I thought some readers of my blog would like to know some of the technical details that are involved in creating our...
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Cannot Remove Groups Background Picture
A work-around to a bug in Windows Live Messenger 2009 was recently brought to my attention. If somehow the background picture in your Groups conversation window has changed, and you want it to be...
View ArticleIHTMLDocument2 hyperlinks open in new window
I spent (most) of the day at work today trying to figure out why my IHTMLDocument2′s hyperlinks were opening in new windows, instead of the current window it was in. Finally, I stumbled upon this:...
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Installing SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
I have been wanting to get back into developing my big project I did in my college years, which was basically a LAMP application. This time, I wanted to set it up as a WIMP environment (har har...
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Resource Hacker Can’t Export Binary Resources
So I came across a rather interesting problem today. Basically, I need to embed a Microsoft Cabinet file into an executable. This is done in an automated type of way, so in order to verify that it...
View ArticleZune Error C00d2767, DRM & Debuggers
After installing an unsigned kernel driver, I noticed that I got an error with playing DRM content on my Zune. After some digging, I found:...
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