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Random tidbits about programming for Windows
OPC Team blog just went live.
Our PM just turned on the faucet on the team blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/opc/ This is the place to...
Date: 05/18/2009
RC SDK is available, updated OPC documentation
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6db1f17f-5f1e-4e54-a331-c32285cdde0c&di...
Date: 05/18/2009
WinDbg, lists, and hello world
Watching me use WinDbg is probably a bit like watching a new programmer write hello world in Visual...
Date: 03/18/2009
OPC Forums on MSDN are now live.
Just a quick note: we've opened up a new forum on MSDN for questions and discussion about OPC....
Date: 02/10/2009
Welcome to the XPS & OPC APIs
My team has been heads down getting some great stuff together for all of you working on printing...
Date: 11/25/2008
more typelists & templates
My co-worker Aaron was quick to reply to my earlier post on templates in type-lists with this...
Date: 08/11/2008
random bits of Windows-related stuff
[Mohave] Microsoft's 'new' operating system is apparently doing well at wow-ing customers. This...
Date: 07/24/2008
fun with templates: part two - type factories
Scenario: I have a template that takes a significant number of arguments, but in the most common use...
Date: 07/23/2008
Fun with templates, part one - abstracting operations:
[edited 7-23-08: updated title, tags] I'm planning a talk on template use, and thought my blog might...
Date: 07/23/2008
template metaprogramming: type lists of templates
Ok, I said in an earlier post that I wasn't going to cover metaprogramming, but I have to post just...
Date: 07/19/2008
XPS Essentials Pack available for download
This is a bit older news now, but still, it's pretty awesome. The XPS Essentials Pack is now...
Date: 05/22/2007
Print Schema 1.0 Specification is available
We've released the final version of Print Schema, and it can be downloaded from here:...
Date: 05/22/2007
PrintTicket Providers, CreateDC and CreateCompatibleDC
When developing PrintTicket support in the configuration module of a filter-pipeline driver, you...
Date: 03/23/2007
Print Schema 0.95 is available for download
The Print Schema 0.95 specification is finally live & ready for review:...
Date: 02/19/2007
Print Schema Documentation Refresh
I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up: We've had a lot of feedback that it would be...
Date: 02/19/2007
How do I get a PrintTicket
It just came to my attention today that there's not really a good piece of text out there that...
Date: 02/16/2007
Vista at home
So, in a break from my usual technical stuff, I thought I'd talk about something else (closely...
Date: 09/15/2006
Handling CoInitialize (and CoUninitialize!)
I'm covering this topic because I've seen a couple of drivers now that are calling CoUninitialize a...
Date: 09/15/2006
Handling IPrintOemPrintTicketProvider::ValidatePrintTicket
If you're writing a plug-in driver for Unidrv or PScript, there's a design quirk that you should be...
Date: 09/12/2006
Who answers my blog (an experiment)
[Update: I've set the email address back to my own account.] Well, it's summere here in Seattle, and...
Date: 06/21/2006
How do I test my PrintTicket support?
If you've been following the blog, and adding support to your drivers for PrintTicket, then you're...
Date: 06/20/2006
XPS & Adobe @ Andy's Blog
If you've been following PrintTicket, you know that it's the way to store printer settings in an XS...
Date: 06/12/2006
Print Schema Breaking Changes and PrintTicket/PrintCapabilities API behavior changes
These changes will NOT appear in Beta 2. These changes will be included in the RC1 release of Vista....
Date: 06/07/2006
PrintTicket, names, and XPath
There's an easy mistake to make when writing XPath queries on PrintTickets, and I want to set the...
Date: 05/04/2006
Adding PrintTicket support to a monolithic driver
I’ve been getting a number of questions lately about various aspects of adding support for...
Date: 04/12/2006
Using PrintTicket for print layout
The PrintTicket contains a feature PageMediaSize that describe various attributes about a piece of...
Date: 03/24/2006
Confusion around partial and complete Print Tickets
I was recently given some feedback that we haven't explained the concept of partial vs. complete...
Date: 02/05/2006
PrintTicket links & information
I'll continue to post information about PrintTicket here & answer questions, however I want to...
Date: 12/29/2005