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We have created a new logo for the Microsoft .NET brand. It will be used widely starting next week at PDC08 in Los Angeles. Expect lots of great announcements at this event. For those attending PDC08, have fun, I am sure you will be amazed! For the not so fortunate who stay at home, the keynote sessions...
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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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One of my colleagues pointed out the new Fine-grained password policy feature in Windows Server 2008. As you can see in this post at The Sean Blog, some values have to be entered in the I8 format, which isn't very user friendly. Because of that, he asked me if I could whip up a tool that converts...
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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 morning I started stepping into the Windows Presentation...
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The last weeks have been filled with holidays and introductional days at my new employer . Because of that, I haven't had the time to realy dive into Visual Studio 2008, although I have played around with it since the RTM version was available. Since this week I've been writing some serious code...
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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 "Oslo". MVP Charles Young has a solid...
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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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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 to XSD files for the message types. Requesting...
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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 need timers. In the full blown WPF you have several...
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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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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 with an earlier effort by Microsoft Patterns and Practices...
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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 Block from Enterprise Library. This interface of...
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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, Windows Presentation Foundation makes heavy use...
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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 wrapper around a generated Windows Communication...
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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...