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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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Yesterday I worked on a new version of my FlickrMetadataSynchr tool and published the 1.3.0.0 version on CodePlex . I wasn’t really planning on creating a new version, but I was annoyed by the old version in a new usage scenario. When you have an itch you have to scratch it! And it is always good to...
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Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently released a cool sample app called The CIA Pickup...
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Sometimes it’s attention to detail that excites me the most. I just noticed the beautiful rendering of PNGs with transparency in the Pictures Library view in Explorer in Windows 7 ( RC build ): You can get this view by selecting Arrange by Month in the upper right-hand corner of the Pictures library...
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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 van der Valk . He was a Development Consultant, like...
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Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't get around to finishing it. Improvements in...
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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 and on-demand dynamic downloading of source files...
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After a long day and night of coding, I released version 0.8.0.0 of my Flickr Metadata Synchr tool on CodePlex this morning. I finally solved the long-standing problem I was having with the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) to update metadata. So this is the first fully-functional release of my application...
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It took me a while, but in the end everything worked out and life's good... Most important changes are I have my very own server now, containing all the general stuff like mail, music, development stuff and that kind of data. My workstation received a small update (I was able to upgrade based on the...
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[ 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 the deadline. If you are subscribed to this magazine...
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*sigh*. It seems you can't strong name a C++/CLI assembly, i.e., sign a managed C++ assembly, with a .pfx file like you can in C# or VB in Visual Studio 2005. You have to revert to using an unprotected .snk file ;( An MSDN forum post about this issue was never answered. It seems that the Visual C++ team...
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The situation I am currently working on version 0.6.0.0 of my Flickr Metadata Synchr tool. The goals for my open source project on CodePlex are described on the Flickr Metadata Synchr wiki page and you can always find the latest status there. At the moment the latest public release is version 0.5.5.0...
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My app on CodePlex has reached the v0.3.0.0 stadium. It does not sync the metadata yet, but it fetches the metadata from images on Flickr and on a local disk in a form that can easily be compared. Jan kindly donated some C# code using GDI+ and direct file operations for reading and writing EXIF and IPTC...
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[ Update 2007-02-24 : My Flickr Metadata Synchr project is now live on CodePlex . I will keep the Wiki page on CodePlex updated and will not further update this blog post. If you are interested in the progress, you can subscribe to the Flickr Metadata Synchr project's RSS feed .] I blogged previously...
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Earlier on Friday I played around with January 2007 CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" . Lots of things are still missing from this CTP. But more is coming soon. Scott Guthrie reveals that lots of new web development stuff will be included in the next CTP which is scheduled for February 2007. He tells us that...