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Experienced entrepreneur and Windows Development MVP: enterprise software by day, consumer software by night. Also @gcaughey on Twitter.
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Windows Quick Recovery, a feature we implemented in response to the CrowdStrike incident last year, is now available to Windows Insiders:

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Playing a bit with the Windows Copilot runtime. If you have the right hardware, it's much easier to get going with local AI than any of the other AI SDKs. Source and blogpost coming soon... #WinAppSDK #WinUI #copilot

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Quick and dirty custom resource dictionary for WPF that gives you darkmode/lightmode resources: gist.github.com/dotMorten/f4...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

25/31 in #WomensHistoryMonth is @gcaughey @gcaughey.bsky.social. Ginny is a fellow MVP focusing on Windows development. #womenintech #mvpbuzz

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I love seeing old friends at MVP Summit!

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.NET 10 Preview 2 is now available with lots of new stuff for even some older frameworks like WinForms and WPF: github.com/dotnet/annou...

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A new .NET 9 update just dropped: github.com/dotnet/core/...

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Our team has been busy making it easier to make our applications look better. Announcing Calcite .NET Toolkit: A styling library for #WPF, #WinUI and .NET #MAUI, open source and free for you to use in any application: esriurl.com/calcitedotnet

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

.NET and AI *practical* samples looks like an interesting new series of short videos from Microsoft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMht...

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Uno Hot Design just hit public beta! If you're a cross-platform developer, check it out: platform.uno/blog/hot-des...

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I just registered for Microsoft Build again this year 😊 See you there?

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Attention .NET fans! .NET 10 Preview 1 is now available: github.com/dotnet/annou...

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Congratulations to Microsoft on this quantum computing breakthrough! news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

This looks like a sweet little iPhone if you don't care that much about taking pictures

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Great explanation here of what's the big deal with this quantum computing announcement

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it's easy to look at Microsoft's HoloLens and dismiss it as a failure, but the silicon work has helped Microsoft reach a milestone in quantum computing with its new Majorana 1 chip www.theverge.com/news/614205/...

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I will definitely check this out!

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Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows www.livescience.com/technology/a...

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I counted *seven* different ways of doing screenshots and screen snipping in Windows (five in Windows 10 and five in Windows 11, but two of those are different); I explain how to use all of them - in a free edition of the AskWoody newsletter

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Announcing: Windows MIDI Services Customer Preview 1 by Pete Brown. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/announcing-windows-midi-services-customer-preview-1/ #windowsdev #winrt #midi #windows #programming

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In just under 2 hours, @nickrandolph.builttoroam.com from our team will be a guest on Microsoft's official Visual Studio Toolbox YouTube channel! Tune in to hear the latest updates on Hot Design and the upcoming release, and get your questions answered. #dotnet 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjno...

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Is it really a "code completion" if the code Copilot suggests isn't usable and I have to hit the Escape key to get rid of it before continuing to write usable code myself?

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

WinUI Community Call starts at 9am PST today (i.e. in about 15 minutes!) We'll be discussing features, plans, and status of the #WinAppSDK 1.7 release, showcasing Windows Copilot Runtime features in 1.7, and providing some XAML debugging tips. https://msft.it/63323UKtXD

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Beware of Alligator. But not today!

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I really hope I don’t get that much snow. I’m more used to hurricanes!

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Don't forget: the WinUI Community Call is tomorrow at 9am PT! https://msft.it/63324UJpcr #WinUI #WindowsDev

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Even more updates!! github.com/dotMorten/Wi...

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.NET 9.0.1 and 8.0.12 have been released today github.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet #aspnetcore #efcore

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

My team just launched a new "less BS" #AI page. Check the three links there with FREE GitHub (OSS MIT Licensed!) COURSEWARE on building apps, learning ML, and learning how to pair-program with Copilot developer.microsoft.com/ai

submitted 83 days ago • 14 comments

GitHub Copilot is sometimes brilliant! You should certainly try it if you haven't.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Only one or two members of my family has ever understood what I do (software engineering), but what's saddest is that the rest really don't even want to know. Maybe that's just the way it is in technical fields.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

It took a while, but FINALLY Outlook (new) supports my corporate O365 account. That's a nice surprise!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

It's good to see Microsoft surveying people about how useful they find Copilot. I hope they are also interested in the answers.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

It would have been handier if I could have just shrunk my dev drive, but backing it up to external media then deleting it, recreating a smaller dev drive, then copying the saved data back seems to have done the trick.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

You can now follow Directions on Microsoft to keep up with all the latest Microsoft enterprise product and licensing news. We are here: bsky.app/profile/dire...

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like #MSIgnite is heading to SF in 2025

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments