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Yesterday I had the hardest session I have ever done at an international conference - a 75 min. demo-only session on developing a solution based on InfoPath, InfoPath Forms Services, Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Workflow Foundation. Actually...

Within this little blog-post you can find the SharePoint Workflow Project Templates that I have used in my Demo Extravaganzza session on Tuesday - they are also available within the ECM Starter Kit as an installer-package. As I have used these templates...

Yesterday Eric Carter , Martin Sawicki, both are Program Managers of the VSTO team at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond and I delivered a whole pre-conference on VSTO at TechEd Europe: Developers in Barcelona. I delivered a pre-conference with deep technical...

This week we have a virtual team meeting for Architects of the Developer and Platform Group across Europe in Poland. At the same time, the Microsoft subsidiary in Poland ran their Microsoft Technology Summit - a conference with about 2500 attendees (damn...

Finally Matthew and I did it - it's out. This summer during my vacation we finished our work for the special edition of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# . And it's available on Amazon already. It was really hard work as Apress wanted us to do this in a very short...

Just one hour, then I'll start talking about Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals in our first MSDN Briefing . The software life-cycle management topic really hunts me for the next couple of years as an Architect in our group - but I...

...or just more fun at the airport and in the plane... Since I joined the Microsoft EMEA Office 12 Early Adoption team last year October I spent nearly every month at least two times in a plane. I guess you still remember my first flight-experience...

I am really looking forward to our next architect forum this Thursday. Our special guest star this time: Dave Green, architect within the Windows Workflow Foundation team at Microsoft Corp. Finally we have put together a panel discussion for the forum...

Last week I was faced with some sort of a special challenge. I went to the south of Austria for developing a prototype on Windows Workflow Foundation for one of our customers. They have successfully established a first version of their product based on...

Today I travelled a little bit for the Microsoft Global Account Team and the EMEA Microsoft Services team... to Warsaw to visit Ernst & Young . We did a whole day workshop on ASP.NET 2.0... starting at 09:30. Around 9:45 I started the first demo...

I am currently setting up my Windows Vista 5472 for the upcoming customer meetings this week and next week. When I wanted to install the typical sysinternal tools I figured out that that's not necessary anymore for some of them. Through Windows Task Manager...

The past two months, May and June, where just amazing. So many events and lots of changes - for me personally as well;) Yesterday and today we had the last large events before summer - the Office System Developer's Conference and the 16. Architect...

After some discussions with the team they confirmed, that this will work with RTM, but there are a couple of limitations we should be aware of: We cannot really communicate between the hosted WPF page and the gadget. Therefore we don't have access...

I am currently working on the Demos for our local Big>Days 2006 road show for Windows Vista and Windows Presentation Foundation. Originally the Windows Vista team claimed, that they will have no support for WPF in the SideBar. That was actually very...

Although it's nearly a week ago I feel as it was yesterday. On the second day (last Tuesday) for the train-the-trainer of our security technical briefings for customers and ISVs we covered the most important part for the briefings - security architecture...

As some of you might already know, in Austria we are going to do Security 1:1 customer workshops for ISVs and customers. Target of our activity is bringing really in-depth know-how about Secure Software Development to our enterprise customers and independent...

Here you can find the sample-code for my last blog entry ;)

Another question I got from the VSTO 2005 event in Denmark in February was a really interesting one. In short words the customer wants to create a central document template with a VSTO 2005 customization with the primary logic. Every outpost or department...

This is a little follow-up from the VSTO workshop I did in Denmark on February 23rd and 24th. The two big questions I got of course where about deploying VSTO 2005 solutions: How can we setup client-security for our solutions? When using Visual...

I have just finished putting together the content four our next MSDN Flash - except the editorial. Actually I wanted to write some more things about user experience. Then I remembered, that I will do the Windows Presentation Foundation developer session...

Yesterday I did a VSTO 2005 event in Denmark - Aarhus for about 150 attendees there. It was really a great run and much fun for me. Actually for two reasons: It was the first technical workshop I did in a cinema. That was actually great fun because...

Wow, my last blog is sometime ago. Therefore you even don't know that one week after my first flight experience (my last blog entry) I had the second one:). They just canceled my flight to Netherlands for the Office 12 Ascend Dry Run. But finally KLM...

Yesterday I planned to go to Redmond for the second part of the Office 12 TAP workshop that the Microsoft EMEA Office 12 Virtual Team (Hans VB, Dave Webster & I) will redeliver for ISV DEs as well as TAP ISVs here in Europe. But as it is the case...

I have created a little session voting tool for the launch conference in Austria to get a feeling of how many people will attend which sessions. With that we can split the rooms appropriately... Currently my session about web parts is on the third position...

Our Launch Conference 2005 is getting real now. The agenda is final, the Conference Web Site is online and the invites are going out this week. Everything is full up'n'running for our Launch Conference 2005 in Vienna. 22. November 2005 from 09...