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When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP development machine that has been around for quite some time, I got an error stating an unhandled exception occured in the application (see image). The error showed up directly upon startup and read: An error occurred creating the configuration section...
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As of December first I'll be joining the ranks of Valid ( www.valid.nl - Dutch website). I'm very excited to start over there and I am convinced we will be able to do great stuff together :) I would also like to take this opportunity to thank BDO ( www.bdo.nl - Dutch website) for the past period...
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The Windows Azure Platform has a rich diagnostics infrastructure to enable logging and performance monitoring in the cloud. When you run a cloud app locally in the DevFabric you can view diagnostics trace output in the console window that is part of the DevFabric UI. For example, say I have the line...
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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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As you probably know I've worked for my own company for quite a while (see my post ' A new challenge ' of October first 2008). Because business was good, I had way too little time to keep this blog up to date. Sorry for that... Since the beginning of this month, that all has changed: I joined...
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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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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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I ran into an issue with a Windows Azure project created from scratch in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 with the May CTP of the Windows Azure Tools . When trying to create tables in the local development storage, I got the error “Invalid image format”. This issue occurred both from VS (using the...
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Our company has been mentioned in an article at the (pretty well-known) blog www.frankwatching.com Read it over here (Dutch): http://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2009/03/13/app-gespot-microsoft-bizspark/
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I’m reinstalling my laptop after I got it back from a repair… EMPTY (grrr). What tools shouldn’t I forget when preparing this laptop to be my development machine? Already have Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Office and the Windows Live tools installed… (and of course I have all kinds of tools at...
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Our company has (the first draft of) a new website online. We're still working on the content, but the design is now online. Check it out @ www.mediagarde.nl (Dutch).
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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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Because I stopped working at Avanade and started my own company (this web site is under construction and in Dutch), I had to buy and install a new laptop. Everything went great and I was up and running in half a day. Or should I say half an evening... ;) The next day I wanted to continue developing a...
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As of today, I am no longer working for Avanade. I had a good time over there, but my personal goals changed. I found a new challenge: I started a company with a good friend of mine. We’re still building the website, so the information is not there yet. But it will be soon. So check the website...