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June 2006 - Posts

• Review

  Joel writes a great story about Bill Gates[1] and confirms my impression of Bill as a 'real, real programmer' [1] My First BillG Review Read More... Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 4:19 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• The future of IBF

  Read this [1] about the official future of the Information Bridge Framework. [1] New Office Announcements at TechEd Read More... Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:17 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• PowerShell and Virtual Server

  The Virtual PC Guy [1] did it again: an excellent post on how to script/access Virtual Server using PowerShell(FKA Monad). He created a kind of hack in order to allow .NET to access COM components. I can help but think that this should be possible by Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:14 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET

• The .NET 3.0 community

  Now that Microsoft has announced the official name of WinFX to be .NET 3.0 they opened a site for the community as well: http://www.netfx3.com/ Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:27 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, WPF, WCF

• Need help?

  Microsoft just announced[1] the MSDN/TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) Content Service. This web service allows you to query the MSDN2 documentation (it is the web service that is called from with Visual Studio) Look for a formal description here[2] Craig Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:19 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Do the right thing with Visual Studio .NET

  According to my programming gurus [1] I should know my development environment well, very well. So here's a way of getting to know Visual Studio .NET [2] [1] The Pragmatic Programmer [2] Free PDF-download of “Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks” Read More... Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 8:39 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Again: new names

  To clear up some misunderstandings about the relationship between WinFX and .NET Microsoft decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0 [1] At the same time they renamed InfoCard to Windows CardSpace (WCS). I guess now people around the globe will Read More... Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 8:20 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, WPF, WCF

• I am a left-side double-clicker!

  This post[1] explains a bit about Alt-Space and closing your application. And it is true: I keep on miss-clicking in Office 2007. Old habits die hard… [1] You Windows 3.1 Lovers! Read More... Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:47 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Design

• WPF: Hardware support

  Very informative post[1] on hardware support for Windows Presentation Foundation [1] Avalon Hardware Acceleration & Video Driver Compat Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:22 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, WPF

• WCF: Interop with WSE3

  Read[1] this if you're interested in calling WCF services using WSE3 [1] WSE3 ->WCF INTEROP BASICS Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:57 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, WCF