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• Microsoft Silverlight

  It's official! WPF/E has been named Microsoft Silverlight. (Yet another meaningless name...) Flash, eat your heart out! Link to Microsoft Silverlight Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:06 PM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design, WPF

• Microsoft DevDays 2007

  (It has been too long... I am trying to get less clutter and more valuable info in my blog...) Last Friday I wrote my biography, a session summary and I sent them accompanied by my portrait to Microsoft as I will be doing a session on the Dutch DevDays[1] Read More... Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:41 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Be one of the first to download Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0

  Today Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 The official link and download page aren't there yet but after digging around I found a link[1]. Here's the official link[2] [1] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 [2] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express Read More... Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 2:25 PM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding, Design

• More than just Dispose

  In my previous post about using and Dispose[1] I touched lightly on the Garbage Collector. Indeed very lightly, I never mentioned it but Dispose is very much related to the GC. Today I found Chris Lyon's Weblog which contains excellent info on the GC, Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:43 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Using, Dispose, Close and Connections

  Please note that my explanation in this post is incorrect. I am sorry if I caused any trouble. In .NET 2.0 disposing the SqlConnection DOES return the connection into the connectionpool. In my experience .NET 1.1 acted differently; I will try to investigate Read More... Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 11:57 AM by Erno de Weerd | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training, Coding, Design

• PowerGadgets

  During the last few weeks I developed the idea that it would be nice to be able to pull Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data from a data warehouse to the desktop in gadget on the sidebar in Vista. I even asked some colleagues if there are any standard Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:28 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Expression - FAQ

  As you might have noticed the Microsoft Expression Products[1] got their final names and a new addition. In true adherence to other naming schemes[2][3] they decided to give Interaction Designer a name that is 'easy' to recognize. I remember it by remembering Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:41 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Nuts

  Today I have met Jason Olson[1]. I have been reading his blog ever since the gaming world was looking for the ultimate gameloop in managed code[2]. Like Jason I love game development and do 'normal' development for my work. This week he is teaching Longhorn Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:10 PM by Erno de Weerd | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding

• Opening up Vista features using .NET

  Eric[1] showed me a great summary of tricks that will let you use some new Vista API's from managed code[2]. Thanks Eric! [1] Eric [2] Vista-only features for the managed developer Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:02 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Running Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista

  Last Friday I gave a seminar on the requirements for the Vista Logo Certification[1]. During the talk someone suggested that the problems of running Visual Studio 2005 (and SQL Server 2005 as well) on Windows Vista can be fixed[2]. Although I haven't Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 8:56 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation

• The Source for Java Technology Collaboration

  Every once in a while there's a smirk on my face caused by something that I think is very funny but is overlooked by others. Today Sun announced a new Java community because Sun's Java platform is going Open Source. And here's my smirk: the site is called Read More... Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 4:35 PM by Erno de Weerd | 8 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• .NET 3.0 Released!!!

  .NET 3.0 (FKA WinFX) has been released. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en to get the SDK. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:38 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation, WPF, WCF

• XNA beta 2

  Yesterday I attended a meeting that set me thinking: how could I, as a trainer and consultant, use more of the things that my students, my customers and I love about gaming? In one of the courses I teach, we do a simulation of a software development project Read More... Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:24 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Coding, Game coding

• Going Live!

  My popular Community Server Gallery Plugin for Windows Live Writer[1] has been added to the Live Gallery[2] The people from Microsoft have been very helpful in the process (and spotting some bugs along the way too :)) The version (2.2) on Live Gallery Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:51 AM by Erno de Weerd | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Building a Setup with Custom Actions using WiX

  WiX[1] is a toolset that allows you to build setups for Windows Installer. Basically you write one or more XML files and then compile them using the compiler and linker from WiX. One of the reasons for using WiX is that it allows you to customize everything Read More... Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 7:00 PM by Erno de Weerd | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding