wintellect-blogs|Jan 27, 2013

Find File and Directory Names FAST

For some reason, I always seem to be looking for file and directory names. Since desktop search is a GUI and I’m a command line kind of guy, I got tired of waiting on PowerShell to slowly grind through the file system on its single thread. With lots of cores and an SSD, I shouldn’t…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 13, 2013

Referencing the Windows Runtime from Desktop Apps

Most people think of the Windows Runtime as being synonymous with the formerly-known-as “Metro” applications, now called Windows Store apps. To add to the confusion, of course, is the fact that the ARM-based version of the Windows OS is branded as Windows RT. Programmers, being lazy, like our abbreviations so the runtime has been adopted…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 5, 2013

One Month with the Acer W510 and Should You Buy One?

Edit Feb 1, 2013: Install the Acer 2..04 Master Installer update release on Jan 30, 2013 and the “limited connect from wake” issue has been fixed. Having been living with the W510 hard for the last month, I thought I’d give my final thoughts in case anyone was looking at getting one. As I’ve written…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 3, 2013

Traveling with Microsoft and the ASUS VivoTab RT

My daughter turns 13 today and to celebrate, our family took a trip to Paris, France. We celebrated Christmas and New Year’s Eve (bonne année) there. I recently purchased an ASUS VivoTab RT and turned over my Samsung Series 7 slate to my wife. We decided to travel light and only bring the slates –…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 21, 2012

Start-PowerShellPoint Now on GitHub

A couple of years ago I was messing around and decided when doing a presentation on PowerShell for Developers only losers would use PowerPoint, but I needed to show bullet points and URLs. Thus, Start-PowerShellPoint was born! The first rule of PowerShell is to ALWAYS use PowerShell. Lots of people found it funny. I’d had…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 20, 2012

The Mixed Bag of Windows 8 Chips

Ivy Bridge. Clover Tail. No, wait, Cloverview. ARM? Atom! Understanding the processors that drive today’s tablets and laptops is definitely like wading through alphabet soup. If the fact that there are two versions of the latest Windows operating system (Windows 8 and Windows RT) isn’t confusing enough, there are literally dozens of CPUs available and…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 19, 2012

Acer Iconia W510 After 10 Days (or so)

I wanted to follow up on my initial review of the W510 after some longer real world usage. And heavy usage it is! I’m still hugely enamored with Outlook 2013 on a tablet so found myself grabbing it for that initial round of emails when I start my day instead of sitting at my desk.…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 18, 2012

The Future of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Development

Does the snapped view required for Windows 8 apps provide insights into the future of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 development? Windows 8 app developers are required to create a snapped view for their applications. This is the one option for on screen multi-tasking in the Windows 8 world. The usefulness of this view…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 16, 2012

ASUS VivoTab RT Review

I recently purchased an ASUS VivoTab RT (the TF600 SKU, 32 GB of storage). As it is one of the less popular WindowsRT models I wanted to write a short review to explain why I made the purchase and how it is working out. Why Get a WindowsRT Device? The first question is, of course,…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 12, 2012

Enumerating Cameras and Camera Locations on Your Surface RT

When I teach classes at Microsoft, I often precede a juicy tidbit of information or code sample with the statement “Here’s a good interview question for you.” Well, here’s a good interview question for you – especially if you want the interviewee out of your office as fast as humanly possible. How do you get…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 10, 2012

Automatically Updating .SLN files to VS 2012

Visual Studio 2012 finally gave us backwards project compatibility so you can slide between VS 2010 and VS 2012 as you needed. It’s a great feature and one we’ve sorely needed for a long time. When I upgraded my projects to .NET 4.5 or the new C++ compiler, I did so inside the IDE. That…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 9, 2012

Review: Acer Iconia W510 Intel Tablet and Windows 8

Living in Seattle has its benefits. It’s an amazing city as we’re on the ocean and only an hour from world class skiing in the mountains. We can now even smoke all the marijuana we want except it has to magically appear from the sky to be fully legal. Even better I could walk five…
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