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June 2007 - Willem Meints

  • Geslaagd

    Per hoge uitzondering een post in het nederlands. Martijn Hazebroek en ik zijn vanmorgen geslaagd met een 9. De school vond het project goed uitgevoerd en we werden geprezen om onze aanpak. Kortom, tijd voor gebak en een feestje :D
    Published 25-06-2007 14:53 by willemm
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  • Last schooldays

    Pfew, the last schooldays are almost over. Monday I will be presenting the project I worked on together with Martijn at school and hope for the best. We worked really hard on our asp.net based portal project and I personally think it looks great and offers...
    Published 22-06-2007 16:46 by willemm
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  • Helpexplorer 3.0

    Somehow I couldn't install the Composite Application Block from Microsoft, so I compiled it from source. While this solved the first part, it didn't provide me with the helpfile. The helpfile is an HXS file which you need to register with the...
    Published 19-06-2007 17:07 by willemm
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  • More information on Acropolis

    Acropolis is the new client framework Microsoft to create windows clients. There's a great website with more information and loads of video tutorials. http://www.windowsclient.net/ http://windowsclient.net/Default.aspx I'm going to build a sample...
    Published 18-06-2007 16:20 by willemm
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  • Microsoft DevDays

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft DevDays. It was fun and most of the sessions were really interesting to hear and see. One of the most interesting sessions was the ADO.NET entity framework sesssion. Gert Drapers showed some interesting...
    Published 15-06-2007 10:49 by willemm
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  • Implementing Simple drag-and-drop operations on a WPF treeview

    Last week I was trying to get a drag and drop treeview to work in WPF. Creating the basic structure was rather pleasing work to do because setting up databinding and getting the items to render correctly is a breeze with the new layout and databinding...
    Published 11-06-2007 11:12 by willemm
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  • Wix Target for MSBuild

    Wix is great, but having to use the commandline tools is not so cool to do. So, to save time and effort I made a MSBuild target to do the heavy lifting. Be aware that I haven't fully tested all possible scenario's, so there might be some room...
  • Acropolis

    Microsoft isn't sitting around waiting for developers to build new frameworks that make use of WPF and other new technologies. Instead they are pumping out new software at a very high pace. I found "Acropolis" this morning, a framework to...
    Published 05-06-2007 7:59 by willemm
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