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Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:54 PM

RSS feeds for KB articles

Normally I don't point people around. This one is too good to miss though: Microsoft is introducing RSS feeds that list the most recently published KB articles for many products. [Update] - I took the time to create the OPML so that you don't need to
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:08 PM

Authoring XML schema (XSD) with InfoPath - Part II

Like I mentioned earlier , it is very easy to use InfoPath as an XML schema editor, with very little extra work: Choose Design a form… from the File Menu in InfoPath. In the Design a new form task pane, select New Blank Form . Note, if you want to derive
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:58 PM

CSBlogger 1.1 is released!

Available now here . I am little bit surprised that CSBlogger didn't get much attention as its .Text cousin SimpleBlogger had. So I decide to list a few reasons why you should consider using CSBlogger as your Community Server blog editor: 1) It provides
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:35 PM

Community Server Issues - Part II

A while back , I complained about the big pain caused by the SOAP header change between Community Server 1.0 and 1.1 web service APIs. Scott was kind enough to explain why they made the change. Still, getting my blog editor to work with both versions
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:54 PM

Authoring XML schema (XSD) with InfoPath - Part I

Recently, I ran across Aaron Skonnard's MSDN magazine articles talking about Contract First Service Development . The very first step of this so called "Contract-First" development process is to create the XML schema. And for that, Aaron recommended Visual
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Friday, May 20, 2005 12:31 AM

Updates on CSBlogger and source code release

Some minor bug fixes are made. As always, the new build can be downloaded here . The source code is also posted there upon requests. You will find the source for the Community Server 1.0 edition under the "CS1.0" sub folder. In the future, I might do
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:00 AM

Creating LEAN_AND_MEAN Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Files

Not so recently I discovered a way that can significantly reduce VHD file sizes: I was able to reduce the sizes of all my VHDs down to 100MB or less bigger than what their guest operating systems report. Just today I compacted a Japanese Windows XP SP2
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Friday, May 13, 2005 2:54 AM

Community Server Issues - Part I

Ok, seriously, I have encountered several problems on the web service APIs provided by Community Server during the process of creating this InfoPath blog client . It seems to me the forum at communityserver.org is not very active. Therefore I am posting
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Friday, May 13, 2005 2:52 AM

CSBlogger Take 2

Finally I was able to get CSBlogger also working with Community Server 1.0. In the mean time, a few minor bug fixes are made to make both the blogs.msdn.com and the CS1.0 edition. The new build is released at the same location here . Hopefully it will
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:11 AM

Here comes the CSBlogger

The download link and other information for CSBlogger, an InfoPath client for Community Server blogs, is now available here . Please post a comment under this post if you have questions or find bugs.
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