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It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin...
Microsoft SQL Server finally gets a logo! Check out the revamped homepage of SQL Server 2008 . We have just released the Release Candidate 0 for download . I say "we", because I work for Microsoft since May 1, 2008 ;)
You probably already noticed that Microsoft has enabled access to the source code of parts of the .NET Framework 3.5. Here is the announcement of availability in case you missed it. And there are detailed instructions on how to enable this as well. This...
Microsoft used the keynote in the SOA & Business Process Conference in Redmond to present its vision on the future of Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform. That vision and the wave of technology that will come with it, is codenamed...
Scott Guthrie did a major announcement on his blog yesterday: Microsoft will be releasing the source code for most .NET Framework libraries with the release of Visual Studio 2008. There will even be integrated support for debugging into framework classes...
Today I encountered a problem with accessing the metadata for a WCF service that was deployed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The WSDL part worked just fine for the metadata exchange endpoint ( url ?wsdl, url ?wsdl=wsdl0, etc.). These WSDL files refer...
WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you...
Microsoft has some great news today: the new Expression Web (already RTM) and Expression Blend (RTM later in Q2 2007) tools will be included in the MSDN Premium Subscription. Soma announced this on his blog . This is the result from strong feedback from...
[ Update : The electronic version (in Dutch) is available online now.] My article on developing interactive TV-websites using ASP.NET 2.0 has been published in the Dutch .NET Magazine #16. I mentioned that I was writing this article in January and I made...
As announced on Tom Hollander's blog, the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 will include a new application block: the Policy Injection Application Block . Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) Edward and me noticed a striking similarity...
The December 2006 CTP of the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) from Microsoft P&P ships with a 2.0 version of the Microsoft Enterprise Library. The Data Accesss factory inside Service Factory generates code which uses the Data Access Application...
On a WPF app we had the need for the application to remember its window position and state (maximized, minimized) across restarts. A short journey on the Internet led me to an interesting article by TimK on CodeProject on how to do this. As you may know...
Microsoft has hastily released the February 2007 CTP of the Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere runtime . The previous CTP expired prematurely. WPF/E is the "light" version of WPF that will run in all major browsers across several platforms (including...
I received a question through the contact form about the usage of my WCF ServiceProxyHelper . That blog post shows the code for the LogicaCMG.ServiceAccess.ServiceProxyHelper<TProxy, TChannel> class. This class helps you in creating a disposable...
Previous posts in this series: LEAP Day 1 , LEAP Day 2 . My pictures from this trip on Flickr. A subset of my pictures tagged with LEAP2007 . All pictures on Flickr tagged with LEAP2007 . Day 3 On the third and last day with sessions, I attended the Software...
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