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November 2005 - Posts

• The future is here

  My youngest release is showing off his potential . Going to the PDC finally pays off (according to my wife…). Of course I got the Geek. shirt for my eldest and myself. Read More... Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:50 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• Test-driven Development and Microsoft

  Microsoft recently released a document containing Guidelines for Test-Driven Development . Unfortunately they got it quite wrong . Test-driven development is different in nature than mentioned and I am glad to read that they noticed it too . Anyway, reading Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:44 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: Coding, Design

• WPF and Visual Studio 2005

  Finally: we're able to code Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) applications with Visual Studio 2005 (release): Windows Vista Developer Center . As soon as I have created a Virtual PC with the latest bits I'll migrate my tutorials . Read More... Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 11:32 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Essential Device Emulator Info for Visual Studio 2005

  The device emulator has changed a lot from beta 2 to release so read this entry on Akhune's WebLog to find out how to connect/cradle your emulator! Read More... Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:58 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• VSTO extras

  Two nice additions to Visual Studio 2005 when coding VSTO: Code Snippets for Outlook and Intellisense for VSTO Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:03 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Ivar Jacobson to the rescue

  From Microsoft Taps Former Rational Heavyweight to Lend Credence to Enterprise Tools Play : Jacobson said he has no intention of bashing RUP. "RUP has a lot of good stuff, but it needs a correction," he said. "First, I see RUP as raising the bar in many Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:37 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Design

• Swoosh or Just do it

  As a sufferer of the Leonardo da Vinci Syndrome I always feel a little guilty when I read things like this . Despite the guilt, I feel strengthened by the fact that Leonardo did not enter history as a loser. The funny thing is that I share quite a lot Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:30 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• Speak for yourself

  Looking at this presentation (which blows you away): OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0 makes me wonder (again): how does one achieve an optimal viewer experience? Making your audience feel that the speaker is cool and knows it all could be a goal but Read More... Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 10:56 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: Training

• PowerPoint Power

  At the moment I am creating course material and this includes the creative process of designing PowerPoint Slides. This site has given me some valuable markers. For PowerPoint presentations I strongly believe that less is more. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:18 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Design

• No wonder C# feels very groovy!

  Anders Hejlsberg shows his true identity Do behave! Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:56 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic

• The most accurate progressbar I have ever seen

  Quite often progressbars are more a nuisance than accurate not this one! Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:50 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: Design

• And the bidding starts at…

  My blog is worth $1,129.08 . How much is your blog worth? Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:46 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• New tutorial on WPF: DataBinding

  See: the WPF tutorials Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:51 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding