FrankFi's view of the world

Hi…   this is a cool video series about the history of Microsoft… http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/History/The-History-of-Microsoft-1975/ Now I learned why BASIC starts to print out OK instead of READY when it actually is Ready. Because it saves 3...

Hi… wow, ever wanted to have your very own DEDICATED Windows Server hosted?? Your real own machine?? Not a virtual one, a real own iron??   Hey, here we go… the formula is like this: Take the Microsoft Project Dreamspark (the OFFICIAL background...

Hi… problably you noticed IE8 is RCed. As in every project getting into stage RC is a very important step. So I found this Channel9 clip very interesting Inside IE 8 RC1 with Dean Hachamovitch and Jason Upton Jason is an interesting person showing how...

Hi… it is a feature which will be loved by Photo-Enthusiasts, Parents, Grand-Parents, Marketing Guys from large brands, but also from smaller brands… The ability to feed backgrounds into your Win 7 desktop by using RSS feeds. Check it out here http:/...

Hi… the good news is: If you know Vista, you know the most about Windows 7. At least from a developer perspective. Several features burried inside of Vista are to be really used in Windows 7. So, no new driver model and stuff like this. The good and bad...

Hi… it is CeBIT ( www.cebit.de ) time again. Well, times are rough, budgets tight. Last but not least we all want to be more environment friendly than we have been in the past. Yes, here we go. Uwe Baumann, Product Manager Visual Studio Express here in...

Hi… I observed this tool quite some time now and it convinces me more every day. First download it and try it yourself: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx What you will find is an easy to use development environment with some very compelling...

Hi… ok, I studied Physics and as you can imagine all of my homeworks were full of formulas and stuff. I did it with LaTeX… Now here is Windows 7 and it comes with a killer feature: Math Entry Pad By using my TabletPC I have written this formula above...

Hi... I found a cool series of articles here http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/14494.aspx on Online Game Development on Silverlight. There are parts addressing things like collision detection and other stuff. Check it out.  ...

Hi... my father is a civil engineer and I will always remember when he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his own shop quite a while ago. He started his speech with the words "We did not celebrate our first year because we did not know if we would...

Hi... you all are still aware of the bug that had been introduced into Debian random key generation two years before it has been discovered. The whole IT world was victim since not only the code was used in different systems all over the place, the week...

Hi... if you are interested in research in the field of software there is a must see: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN04/ It is Rick Rashid's keynote at the PDC... Wuha, did I mention that I dream of working in MSR?? CU 0xff

Hi... I was just a member of the panel during a discussion which took place at the Medientage in München. We were asked to come up with ideas around what could help a typical attendee. Beside other topics we discovered that one thing was omnipresent...

Hi... what shall I say ... http://www.dotnetservicesruby.com/ CU 0xff

Hi...   my colleague Bernhard Frank just did an article on the topic and now there is a Whitepaper online about the topic (see http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/F/82F65F5E-D791-4199-9CE4-25E772682731/PHPonWindows_final.pdf ). The nice thing...

Hi... now we can announce it officially: Carl Dichter (Director of Systems Development, MySpace.com) will take part as a keynoter on stage!!! That is cool!!! MySpace is one of the largest (if not THE largest) .NET installation outside of Microsoft. And...

Hi... all the XTOPIA Fan really needs: T-Shirt, mugs, underpants... See http://www.xtopia-konferenz.de/Xtopia08_Shop_xt08.mspx?ActiveID=1423 I just ordered one with my blog address underneath the XTOPIA logo... CU 0xff

Press Play to start ;-) Music by Roberto Winckler / Video by Oliver Scheer CU @ XTOPIA / TechSummit 0xff

Hi... if you ever wanted to play a bit with multitouch... well you only need a webcam to do so. You can find the SDK, some demos and stuff here http://www.codeplex.com/touchless/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=17986 The Project is called touchless...

Hi… if you use Fiddler2 (see http://www.fiddler2.com/Fiddler2/ ) which is a very cool web debugging tool you will find that Firefox might not work well with it. Then do the following: 1. Locate the following directory c:\users\[Your Name]\Documents\Fiddler2...

Hi… you certainly already saw it… but if not YES, MSDN SUPPORTS TAGGING NOW!!! See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/ CU 0xff

Hi… a not so well known fact is that there is a toolset in place to tweak and deploy IE. For the IE8 version you can now download the beta at http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/ie/cc889349(en-us).aspx CU 0xff

Hi… as we approach nearer and nearer to the event date we started to generate a bit more buzz ;-) Some of the things we want to show there are not yet to be announced (as usual the great dilemma of the marketing folks: You have a lot to say and are not...

Hi… today we received a load of boxes for the MTC (for more on the MTC see here http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcmuc/default.aspx (in German)). Since the MTC is a showroom for us and for some of our partners we are pleased to welcome lots of customers and partners...

Hi… you might have seen this blog http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/ where the Windows 7 Engineering Team talks about the way Windows is engineered. There was not a lot of news around Windows 7 in the past. If you have observed the news stream you certainly noticed...