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At the moment I’m taking the first steps in moving the BizTalk Software Factory to the BizTalk Server 2009 platform. In order to accomplish that I need to look carefully into the ‘new’ project type and structure of the project file used. One thing I came...

I’ve owned a Windows Mobile for some time, currently the HTC Tytn which sure is up for replacement. But I’m really waiting for the HTC Touch Pro 2 or the HTC Hero or something. With internet on it, it’s great to have the ability to check your email, search...

Last week at the SDN Event in Houten, I presented a session on Windows Azure and how you can develop applications on it. How it differs from developing for servers that run on premises. After the presentation, the question was asked if developing for...

Introduction SmartPictureBox Control : A picture box control is one of the most popular controls to display and received an image from a user. However, most of the time you’ll find yourself writing repetitive tasks such as Load an image from file...

Long time, no post. I just want to share the excitement for joining the distinguished panel of Judges for the 2009 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals. The finals will be held in Cairo, Egypt, from Friday, July 3 through Wednesday, July 8. We will be staying...

When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint...

Yesterday I co-presented at the Dutch BizTalk User Group. It was a talk about the BizTalk Software Factory and I did the demo. Afterwards I got the question on how to set the icon on a guidance recipe, like in the picture below. I had to look it up in...

A couple of months ago I received a license for NDepend to evaluate its usefulness. I was already convinced that NDepend is a very useful tool. But up to now, I hadn’t put NDepend to good use in a way that I could blog about it. Today I decided to bite...