Localizing Microsoft ReportViewer

Microsoft ReportViewer Control can be localized by implementing the three IReportViewerMessages interfaces. However, the documentation of these interfaces lacks the original string values, which in turn makes it difficult to provide a proper translation. In this blog, a complete listing … Continue reading

Using AppHarbor, Bitbucket and Mercurial with ASP.NET and Silverlight – Part 2 CouchDB, Cloudant and Hammock

After having created a hosted ASP.NET and Silverlight application on AppHarbor we’ll take it a bit further by adding cloud storage. There are many ways to add storage but in this tutorial the application will be provisioned with a CouchDB … Continue reading

Using AppHarbor, Bitbucket and Mercurial with ASP.NET and Silverlight – Part 1

Imagine an easy way to create, test and deploy a scalable web application for free. Keep that thought and let’s do it in the time of a single blog post. Create an account for AppHarbor. AppHarbor is, as they call … Continue reading

BUILD Globalized and Localized Metro Applications

The final session I attended at the last day of the BUILD Conference was about building Metro Apps that target multiple languages. Windows 8 uses a preference list of UI languages that can be configured by the user. It is … Continue reading