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A few years ago I advocated the addition of a Minister of IT to our government in a column. One of the main reasons for supporting this (or even being up for the position myself) is the apparent lack of thorough knowledge of information technology amongst...

Ah yes the dreaded error #4001. I ran into this problem and every solution Google presented to me did not work. So what’s the situation: I have some images in my Silverlight project with Build Action set to Content. As a result the image is put...

Some time ago I blogged about the Microsoft Certified Non-Professional , server virtualization. to complete your certifications, you should become Microsoft Certified Non-Professional, desktop virtualization:

Update! Please download version 2 It fixes some relative/absolute url problems. You might have been wondering why on earth I haven’t included any Silverlight demos in this blog. The reason is as simple as it is frustrating: the software that runs this...

I must say it really helps a lot when you have someone available from the dev teams to solve some issues with the Beta Bits. As I told in my previous post I worked with Adam Bar from the Microsoft North Carolina Office for our devdays pre-conference....

In Visual studio 2010 Team Architect edition, you have a new type of diagram available, called the layer diagram. What is great about this diagram is that you can use it to actually validate if the source code you have written adheres to the rules you...

Well, the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 is over again. It was once again a great conference with lots of interesting new developments and insights. The Jazz products are evolving very fast, and they really try to improve on weak points first and...

With silverlight 3 RTM on the doorstep I thought it was time to take a look at one of the very cool new features in silverlight 3. I’m really excited about the new out-of-browser experience, since it allows customers to place the silverlight 3 application...