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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

Silverlight Is Cool Because It ...

As you all have probably seen, read or heard about the announcement of Silverlight the new Microsoft technology to create Rich Internet Applications. Some of you might still wonder what it is all about and therefore I thought I will provide you a brief, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:58 PM by astrauss | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): WhatIsSL.xaml

Hanging Around In Munich? Get Yourself Assured!

Since a few days I reached the 100 points limit in order to assure other members of CACert.org . So if you happen to visit Munich and want to have your identity proven you can send me an email and I will check if I manage to meet you. I will also reach Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:02 AM by astrauss | 0 Comments
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WPF 3D - Blender Helps You Getting Productive

The last few days I played around with the 3d capabilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). After doing my first steps understanding the basics and and the differences between WPFs 2d and 3D coordinate-systems and painting manual sketches Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 5:53 PM by astrauss | 0 Comments

Checking For Installed Media Center Applications From MCML

With the new Windows Media Center Presentation Layer (WMCPL) programming model it becomes easy to create rich and interactive media center experiences. While WMCPL supports an online only deployment and delivery model namely Windows Media Center Presentation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:55 PM by astrauss | 0 Comments

Media Center@Vista - Let's Unite What's Been Separated

One great thing about most of today's presentation layer technologies is that they not only support but sometimes even enforce a separation of application logic and the view. This is also true for the new Media Center presentation layer language called Read More...
Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:55 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): MCMLFiles.zip

WCF - Let's Communicate (across borders)

This is an addition to my blog post from last friday. If you tried my little sample and it worked perfectly you probably had client and server running on the same physical machine. If you tried to access the server from a different machine the client Read More...
Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 2:33 PM by astrauss | 2 Comments

WCF - Let's Start The Dialogue

With a current project as background I had another look at the duplex channel communication options in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Duplex channels are a great means to break the usual request/response pattern in web services communication. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:57 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments

TV Broadcast & Custom Media Center Applications

With the upcoming release of Windows Vista there is also a new version of Windows Media Center to be released. When it comes to developing custom applications for Vista Media Center you now, maybe unfortunately, have a choice of technology. While the Read More...
Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 10:51 AM by astrauss | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): BroadcastOverlay.mcml
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