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DHL Shipment Tracking Accelerator for IE8

Today it’s going to be a short and extremely non technical post however I thought this may be of interest to some of you. I had some spare time and was waiting for DHL to deliver my copy of Dragon Age: Origins . So I consulted the DHL tracking system Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:41 PM by astrauss | 0 Comments

Installing IEAK IN A VPC without Disk Space Determination

If you try to install the Internet Explorer Administration Kit on a Virtual PC image you may have probably encountered the following situation The box shown above appears and stays there forever. The only option you have is to click the “Return” button Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:48 PM by astrauss | 0 Comments

The Music Industry – Your Dear Pals

Due to some recent changes in licensing for LyricWiki to provide song lyrics via web service calls my famous Radio GaGa Silverlight application does no more show lyrics of the selected songs. As said this is due to some restrictions made by the music Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:51 AM by astrauss | 0 Comments
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The ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight – An Example

During the last few weeks I was working with Silverlight again quite a bit. This meant I had to write some code for several showcase projects, too. Of course no real production code (beware) but nevertheless in the end the applications were doing what Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:25 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Physics, Silverlight and Visualization…Update!

Due to quite some unexpected demand for the sources of the knowledge management showcase published in this blogpost even now almost 2 years after the initial post I took some short time and updated the solution. So now should at least rudimentary work Read More...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 12:40 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

Using IE8 Beta2 IEAK with RC1 Bits

The release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is just around the corner and fortunately there is a significant number of people and organization that want to release their own customized version of IE8. Luckily Microsoft publishes a tool that can let you easily Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:29 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments

Building A Visual Search Service For IE8 With WCF - Part III

It's definitely about time to publish the promised third part of this series. This time I will cover the class model which I used to let the .Net XmlSerializer generate the necessary XML structure. I want to utilize almost the full breadth of the capabilities Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:15 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Do A Gadget With Silverlight And The Award could be yours

This time just a short announcement and no broad epic technical essay as usual. The announcement is about the Silverlight Gadget Award for all those who are developing cool and innovative Vista Sidebar Gadgets and want to introduce this to a even broader Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 1:17 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

IE8 Beta Is Out And With It Some Slices And Activities

Today the MIX Conference in Las Vegas opens its doors and there will be quite some interesting announcements there. I will surely blog about some of them and today I will take a start with the public release of Internet Explorer 8 and one of its new features. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:54 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Advisory - IE8 Web Standards Conformity

Today is IE8 day - Soon you will now why. And I will start with a short advisory regarding a change in strategy how web standards will be handled in IE8 as default rendering option. But before that I would like to to mention that especially with respect Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:02 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments
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What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 3

The publication of Vittorio's book "Understanding Windows Cardspace" about which I wrote a post only yesterday I realize that there is more and more demand for information about topics around identity. And from my experience it is not only people working Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 12:33 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

Cardspace - Want To Take A Even Deeper Look?

Two days ago I found a small parcel in my office mailbox which contained a copy of a new book written by one of my architect evangelist colleagues Vittorio Bertocci together with Garret Serack and Caleb Baker . Its title is:" Understanding Windows Cardspace Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:07 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments

What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 2

Q: Can a card be marked as "not exportable"? A: No this is not possible at the moment. After a card has been installed in the card-selector the card can always be exported using the standard facilities of the card selector. This allows easy tranportation Read More...
Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 5:32 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments

What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 1

Since the Identity Metasystem and Microsoft Cardspace is quite a complex topic but is a great means to enable the user to have better control how and when identity information and login credentials are used I felt that there needs to be some more clarification Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:36 AM by astrauss | 3 Comments

Smart Enconding Enables Content Reuse

As I work with many customers from the media and entertainment sector which naturally have a high affinity to Windows Media Center and Silverlight technologies I'm frequently asked the question on where the overlaps are between Media Center and Silverlight Read More...
Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 10:07 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments
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