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"the what for Architects?!", you might ask yourself? MXP stands for Microsoft eXcellence Program, and is a unique collaboration between my employer (Achmea) and Microsoft, with the aim to train people, who will operate as (technical) leaders within the Microsoft community within Achmea. The...
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Nice post of Steven Sinofsky on MSDN blogs about the history and future of Windows Explorer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx (edit 31-08-2011) And Martin Tirion of Microsoft Netherlands wrote about it a day later (in Dutch). http://blogs.microsoft.nl...
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When you’re creating a desktop application you'd probably want to store some user settings. Especially when using the Ribbon inside your application, there are several things (like RibbonIsMinimized and ShowQuickAccessToolBarOnTop ) that users can set and want to keep even if the application en closed...
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Recently on Silverlight 5.0 Firestarter event ScottGu has announced road map for Silverlight 5.0. There will be lots of features that will be there in Silverlight 5.0 but here are few glimpses of Silverlight 5.0 Features. Improved Data binding support and Better support for MVVM: One of the greatest...
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Wow, April 2010 proves to be a jam-packed month of releases from Microsoft. A short list, that is bound to be incomplete: .NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 Office 2010 SharePoint 2010 Data Protection Manager 2010 System Center Essentials 2010 Dynamics GP 2010 Enterprise Library 5.0 SQL Server 2008...
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The Microsoft Enterprise Library has always been one of the most popular things to come out of the patterns & practices team. Yesterday p&p reached a major milestone by releasing version 5.0 of EntLib. The improvements are too numerous to sum up here, but let me mention one: this release has...
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Long before I joined the company, Brad Abrams was one of the first people for me that put a human face on Microsoft. I felt sad when I just read his blog post that Brad is leaving Microsoft . But at the same time I feel happy for all that he has accomplished for the company. Check his blog post for all...
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in As you will probably know, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will RTM on April 12, 2010 and will be available for download on MSDN Subscriptions Downloads the same day. The Windows Azure team is committed to making .NET Framework 4 available in Windows Azure within 90 days of the RTM...
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[ Updated 2010-04-25 : The lightweight view for MSDN has been fixed, so the content of this post is no longer relavant] [ Updated 2010-04-07 : Updated one screenshot, because the lightweight view has changed] MSDN has recently switched the default online view mode to “lightweight view”. Although...
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Last week we published a new major version of the Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide . The effort of creating this document was lead by Geoff Gray. Geoff is a senior consultant in the Microsoft Services Labs in the US that specializes in performance testing using Visual Studio. I...
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Unexpectedly I was able to go to the DevDays yesterday and I had a great time. At the moment I'm in between projects so I asked if there were any tickets left for the DevDays. One of our interns bought a ticket already so I was able to take his place. The day started not so good, it took me about...
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I don’t write much for public consumption these days, i.e., this blog has gone really quiet ;) Most of my work is for clients that don’t like it if I blog about that. But I did write an article about cloud computing and Windows Azure for the Dutch TechNet Magazine with my colleague Dennis Mulder. It...
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Every year I do a blogpost around the sessions that I recommend for the Microsoft Developer Days in The Netherlands. I don't think I will be able to attend the event this year, but I will definitely watch some of the videos afterwards. This would be my agenda: Tuesday March 30: The key-note(9.15...
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After 6 months of waiting, last week I received my Windows 7 Ultimate Commemorative Edition. This edition is an special edition awarded to beta testers for their positive feedback. I am really thankful to Microsoft for considering my feedback valuable. I was accepted into the Windows 7 Beta Program since...
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Hi, this post is just to share the sample application that was showcased on the session "How To Develop .NET Applications that take advantage the new features of Windows 7". The session was hosted by Daniel Montero and me at TechDays 2009 Chile. As a side note the focus of the application was...