Mario Briana

IE8 - Managed Code PlugIns

MSDNArchive — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:44:00 GMT

The Microsoft Technology Center in Germany developed a managed wrapper for COM Interfaces of IE Plugins. It works with IE7 and IE8, is targeted at Express Editions (Both C# and VB.NET) but also works with the other versions of VS. The project is called...(read more)

.NET Ria Service

MSDNArchive — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:21:12 GMT

While evaluating the latest RIA services I followed this walkthrough . Not sure what I did wrong but trying out the POCO – aka plain old CLR objects - example with Cities I could not get the data down to the client and figured a simple problem was causing...(read more)

Building an Accelerator Part II

MSDNArchive — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:30:50 GMT

Today I finished a webcast on the latest features of my Currency Converter. In the video I show the usage of localstorage as well some jquery features. Let me know what you think....(read more)

WPF Control Browser

MSDNArchive — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:25:50 GMT

Mike Taulty built a nice app to show controls available for WPF and Silverlight. And finally it is now also working on my 64bit Windows7 machine....(read more)

Building IE8 Accelerator Webcast

MSDNArchive — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:56:00 GMT

I recorded a webcast about the Currency Converter Accelerator that I developed. The stream is powered by Microsoft Silverlight Streaming ....(read more)

the beauty of the client ... a cool Demo from Michael Köster

MSDNArchive — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:01:00 GMT

Michael developed that cool demo where he uses the power of the client to access devices through bluetooth. What he did is a very nice way of showing the beauty of our technology stack ... I personally had never thought of connecting Nintendo WII controls...(read more)

Currency Converter

MSDNArchive — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:55:00 GMT

I wrote an IE8 accelerator which can be found at http://ie8.brianas.de and is also registered at http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Currencty_Converter/...(read more)

Customer Support in the aggregator scenario

MSDNArchive — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:17:00 GMT

As the hosting business is a low margin business support cost is a very critical area that they want to have as low as possible. In many low-end offerings you actually don’t have any support other than calling high priced hotlines. If you do get support...(read more)

What is the definition of Software as a Service?

MSDNArchive — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:16:00 GMT

If you go to www.microsoft.com/saas you will end up with the definition: “Software deployed as a Service and accessed using Internet technologies”. To me this is very broad probably too broad. Unfortunately I don’t have anything clearer and more precise...(read more)

Ownership of customer relations

MSDNArchive — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:16:00 GMT

Many hosters make their money servicing consumers in a low margin business. Many of them have a business brand like Cohaesio vs. Surftown or Schlund&Partner vs. 1&1. I’m not sure how realistic a scenario would be where a hoster would give up...(read more)