Sara Ford's Weblog
My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at Microsoft
Another MSDN Blog that discusses accessibility - Microsoft Federal Developer Evangelism Team Blog
Back in September ‘05 (yeah, I’m just a little behind the times), the Microsoft Federal...
Author: saraford Date: 04/05/2006
Customize your Find in Files Results experience!
Another awesome hidden editor feature… You can customize your Find in Files results to show what you...
Author: saraford Date: 03/30/2006
Living Large on Channel 9
At the end of Sprint 1, Ken Levy from the Ch9 team came over to film demos of our first three power...
Author: saraford Date: 03/29/2006
Will we have a 10 year high school reunion at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, MS?
Update: Looks like a reunion is in the works around the 4th of July weekend. More info at...
Author: saraford Date: 03/17/2006
Burgermaster of Bellevue - Dreams do come true
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Author: saraford Date: 03/16/2006
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
I wished I had gone to the Microsoft Women’s Conference in ‘05 to hear Lois Frankel speak about her...
Author: saraford Date: 03/12/2006
What sort of tools would you expect to fall under the name “Power Toys for Visual Studio”?
To all the developers out there who love power toys, I could use your help on this one. If I...
Author: saraford Date: 03/10/2006
Ultraviolet review – you’ve been warned
Signs your movie is in trouble During an intense action sequence, you think, “the soundtrack is so...
Author: saraford Date: 03/05/2006
Let the good times roll again in New Orleans
Happy Mardi Gras to all you New Orleans natives who couldn’t make it back to the Quarter this year....
Author: saraford Date: 02/28/2006
30 minute CNN special on Bay St. Louis and Katrina by Kathleen Koch
Last weekend, I caught whatever cold is going around, so Sunday afternoon I was out cold in...
Author: saraford Date: 02/28/2006
My worst nightmare almost realized: Waveland appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
After the NBC Nightly News segment featured my parents, I watched The Daily Show religiously for 2...
Author: saraford Date: 02/28/2006
Emacs and Brief Emulations Updates Available
Dylan, one of our editor devs, has posted some workarounds to Emacs and Brief Emulations bugs on...
Author: saraford Date: 02/22/2006
Attending BlogHer ’06
Thanks to KC’s post, I’ve registered for BlogHer ’06 this summer in San Jose. I’m going to propose a...
Author: saraford Date: 02/22/2006
Our first three Power Toys for Visual Studio released
On Friday, we released our first set of Power Toys for Visual Studio! I have to say that I...
Author: saraford Date: 02/13/2006
MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee” Beta 1 Released!
The Developer Solutions team (the team I joined 4 weeks ago) is proud to announce the release of...
Author: saraford Date: 02/10/2006
Team System is looking for Testers to do usability studies on their Testing Tools
Rob asked me to get the word out that the Team System people are looking for some testers to conduct...
Author: saraford Date: 01/31/2006
The top 10 most visited tips
Today’s post marks the 100th Tip on the Tip of the Week! To celebrate the occasion, let’s...
Author: saraford Date: 01/31/2006
Job openings on our Developer Solutions Team
Are you passionate about your community and your customers? Do you want to take Visual Studio...
Author: saraford Date: 01/26/2006
Disable Add-ins on Start-Up by holding the Left-Shift key down
If you ever want to disable add-ins from starting on launch, you can hold down the Left-Shift key...
Author: saraford Date: 01/24/2006
VS Macro to Build a Web.SiteMap file from your project system file layout
Today’s tip comes from Scott Allen’s blog. Scott has provided a VS 2005 macro that will...
Author: saraford Date: 01/19/2006
Officially a Black Belt
Black is an awesome color to wear! Here are some pictures from tonight’s ceremony. This blog...
Author: saraford Date: 01/19/2006
Awesome Before / After shots of Waveland, MS and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by The Sun Herald
The Sun Herald has these really cool flash animations showing before and after Katrina photos. ...
Author: saraford Date: 01/18/2006
Embracing my Program Management side
After 4.5 years on the VS Environment / VS Core team, I’ve finally decided to make the switch into...
Author: saraford Date: 01/17/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Automation Samples are now available!
You can find the VS 2005 Automation Samples...
Author: saraford Date: 01/09/2006
How a project max path and solution name length is calculated
You’ve may have noticed that sometimes your project name is too long where other times it is...
Author: saraford Date: 12/15/2005
My First Karate Practice as a Black Belt
Found out over the weekend that we had passed. Everyone going for shodan (1st degree black...
Author: saraford Date: 12/13/2005
Use devenv /edit to open any file in an existing Visual Studio instance (VSEdit functionality)
For those of you who used the VSEdit Powertoy for VS 2003, you’ll be happy to know that you can have...
Author: saraford Date: 12/08/2005
Hippies say Good-bye. New Waveland Café heads to Chalmette, LA
I’ve heard that Fred’s and some of the other stores are itching to reopen, so the hippie café is...
Author: saraford Date: 11/30/2005
How to set your current project to always be the startup project
Sweet! Today’s tip is our first tip sent in by a customer. Got a VS tip you want to...
Author: saraford Date: 11/29/2005
Keyboard Navigation and Transparency with DataTips
Today’s tip comes from both Jim and Steve. From Steve’s blog: Hold the Ctrl button down to make...
Author: saraford Date: 11/21/2005
How the black belt exam went
I won’t know the results of the exam until our head teacher is ready to give them to us. I’m...
Author: saraford Date: 11/16/2005
Tips for Reporting Issues at Product Feedback Center
I’ve worked with my teammates on VS Core to come up with this list of tips on writing good bug...
Author: saraford Date: 11/16/2005
The Automatic Qualifying of Classnames via SmartTags
Did you know you can use SmartTags to automatically qualify your classnames? Using C# as an...
Author: saraford Date: 11/16/2005
MSNBC dedicated site to the reconstruction of Waveland and Bay St. Louis
Good lord, am I the last to know about this site regarding the reconstruction of Bay St. Louis and...
Author: saraford Date: 11/09/2005
How to recursively copy files using the Task in MSBuild
From the MSBuild Team Blog… Have you ever run into a situation where you had to recursively copy...
Author: saraford Date: 11/08/2005
Did you know... how to use the Undo and Redo commands on the standard toolbar
This blog post has been moved to...
Author: saraford Date: 11/02/2005
Waveland experience from an emergency doctor assigned to Waveland, MS in the early days following Katrina
The experience below comes from an emergency doctor who went to Waveland, MS with the North Carolina...
Author: saraford Date: 11/01/2005
Waveland makes National Geographic Special Edition on Katrina
At bookstores and newsstands, you’ll find a Special Edition of National Geographic on Katrina. ...
Author: saraford Date: 10/30/2005
The 13 days of training for my black belt exam on Nov 11th
Here I am, 13 days away from my black belt exam. I’m mostly concerned about having to do the 4...
Author: saraford Date: 10/30/2005
Waveland Cafe is now registered in the Microsoft Giving Campaign
This is a FYI to all the Microsofties out there. Waveland Cafe is now registered in the giving...
Author: saraford Date: 10/26/2005
What does that Restore File Associations button do on the Tools-Options-Environment page?
You may have wondered what that Restore File Associations button does on the...
Author: saraford Date: 10/25/2005
Save Waveland - How you can donate directly to Waveland, MS
Welcome to my official Save Waveland post. All information I collect about how you can...
Author: saraford Date: 10/25/2005
Photos of our trip to Waveland, MS now available
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34052677@N00/ Pictures may speak a thousand words, but a million are...
Author: saraford Date: 10/25/2005
Use devenv /log to troubleshoot VS issues
VS 2005 has a built-in logging system to help Product Support Services troubleshoot Visual Studio...
Author: saraford Date: 10/20/2005