Ernst Wolthaus

Streetartist 

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If you're in R'dam, both of them should already be cached ;-) So downloading will be a matter of seconds.

Since there are major problems trying to run Microsoft CRM in a VMware session I have some spare time on my hands.

I've been looking at all kinds of articles related to Winform development and visual styling and found some interesting links. Maybe you'll find them interesting as well...

I took a look at a themed Windows XP style task bar on The Code Project. The author tries to make a XP style component without rendering all of the UI by hand. Using the already available DLL's from Windows, I think he succeeds very nicely.

In that article an utility is used, the ResBuilder. Very nice utility to add and modify your own resource files, but also very handy to look at the resource contect of other DLL's (and copy from them).

Understanding the things you see with the ResBuilder is hard at first, so you might want to read the FAQ on that one: UIFILEs. Bfarber is a nice site for all those interested in graphic design and creating your own windows logon screens.

Another nice article about XP-like styling is on Cool Client Stuff.

That's it for now.
If PLS isn't able to install MS CRM in VMware soon, you'll be hearing a lot more from me... ;-)

The post by Jan inspired me to look further. And look what I found...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/6afa/

Maybe you know mr. Bunny, maybe not (I think not, Dennis!)...

But Mr. Bunny wrote an excellent book on ActiveX, Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX.

"ActiveX is just a new way of controlling your pixels," says Mr. Bunny. "Can you say 'pixel'?"

ActiveX is old technology, I know, but the way mr. Bunny describes it is very funny.
Anyway, if you're interested (and work for LCMG), you can borrow my copy ;-)

Sometimes it's frustrating that our company doesn't allow access to the newsgroups. There's a whole lot'a usable info on them...

Anyway, somebody pointed out to me that the microsoft groups can be accessed by webinterface.

Maybe I was the only one who didn't know this, maybe not...