Jason Nadal

Don't you hate working on a complex problem only to stumble on something so simplistic you just feel like a dolt? Today (more like yesterday, given the early hour EST), I realized the solution to a problem I was having with a winform combobox derived class.  The problem? Whenever I tried to compile in release mode, the visual representation of the control would disappear from the winform designer, and the app would not compile. As is usually the case with strange problems, the solution came while I was away from my keyboard... on the way to work.

I have my first published article (“Coming soon to Windows: The Microsoft Shell (MSH)“) at:

I added the following to my translation web service.  Please post feedback if you like it or are having problems with it.  The old method is now deprecated, and the new method that should be used is TranslateLanguage(LanguagePair,InputText);

I got the idea of using the google translate page as a web service, and using that service in Speech2Blog.  Think about being able to speak and make posts in other languages, or to provide auto-translated RSS feeds (granted this will come with a performance costs, but at a huge gain for accessibility).  Here's the first step in the process -- a translation service that interacts with Google's translator.

I see the MS Speech team has released Beta 4 of the Speech SDK.  Grab it now at a mere 320mb for the full package.

So many projects, so little time. 

John Lawrence writes about speech2blog:

After previously being available for download only by MSDN Enterprise and Universal subscribers, the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework is now available here.