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BigDays 2008 - Slides and Demos

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:32 PM by knom
Here are the slides and demos of my four sessions at the Austrian Launch Tour "Big>Days 2008". Sorry for the delay.. I've been in a hurry during the last days.. So following the high demand, here they are :-) Visual Studio 2008 Slides WCF, WPF Demo Read More...
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"Hacking" System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:48 PM by knom
In .NET 2.0 there is a cool class called SmtpClient within System.Net.Mail . With this class you can send mail (at least I thought). The requirement was to send an email over a server of one of our agencies. The mail server was secured by username/password Read More...
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WcfSvcHost and WcfTestClient in VS 2008

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:09 PM by knom
There are two nice helper apps included in Visual Studio 2008, which allow you to test-host your WCF service and invoke the methods to check they're working correctly. The two apps are called WcfSvcHost.exe and WcfTestClient.exe. By default they are set Read More...
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Silverlight 2 - Feature Overview

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:31 AM by knom
Last week in Las Vegas the upcoming version Silverlight 2 was presented. Right now the Beta 1 is available for download. As you probably already know, Silverlight is a browser plugin, which needs to be installed once by the end users. If users get along Read More...
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MiX 08 Keynote News - Silverlight, IE 8, ...

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:57 AM by knom
Wednesday March 5th, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Endless crowds are trying to get into the keynote room of MiX. The first speaker is Ray Ozzie. As chief software architect of Microsoft, he talks about the overall strategy of Microsoft, providing a platform Read More...
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We're going to Las Vegas

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:19 AM by knom
As MiX conference currently takes place here - I travelled "over" to Las Vegas. 15h of flight! That's really hard. We departed at 10:50am in Vienna with Austrian Airlines towards Washington. Although economy class was as narrow as always we had nevertheless Read More...
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MiX 2008 - I'm coming!!

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:43 PM by knom
Hurrah! This year I'm allowed to attend MiX conference in Las Vegas! And I'm really excited! I'm sure it will be a week of interesting sessions about Silverlight, Expression and other Web / UX Dev. topics! You can also expect some interesting announcements Read More...
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Inside Workflow Foundation Activities

Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 8:17 PM by knom
Activities are the heart of WF. Together they form workflows, control the flow or do loops. They can either be simple and atomic or composite . Simple activities can do one thing as calling a database or web service, terminating the workflow or something Read More...
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Advanced Workflow Foundation - MSDN Briefing

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 7:04 PM by knom
This week I had a session about advanced topics of Windows Workflow Foundation. Some features I covered were Workflow Execution Internals External Services & Communication Activity Execution Context Persistence Workflow States Fault Handling Transactions Read More...
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Are male Tech-Geeks more corpulent?!

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:08 PM by knom
What made me think about this topic, was a combobox of shirt-sizes I came across during my speaker registration for TechEd 2007 in Barcelona, last November. Why are there T-Shirts in sizes until X-X-X-X-X (5!) L ?? Well.. one possible reason: all shirts Read More...
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Funny VB-LINQ MSDN Manual

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:43 PM by knom
While browsing around in the MSDN library, I stopped at a funny page about LINQ in VB 9 ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364068(vs.80).aspx ) It's an eyecatcher, isn't it - but at least they're really explicit in their samples ;-) Read More...
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Silverlight-Showcase "CollectIT" Video

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:17 PM by knom
Recently I've been recording a Demo-Video of our sticker-collection application. It's built on a soccer brand (for EM 2008) and is called "CollectIT". It was built using Silverlight 1.0. Another cool thing is the LiveID integration. And the most important Read More...
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MSDN Subscription - Restrict DVD delivery language

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:10 PM by knom
If you have an MSDN subscription, I suppose you get a lot of DVDs in different languages like Italian, German, Swedish, etc... every month. Je ne parle pas français? - Non parlo italiano? - No hablo español? Good news for all Europeans: You can restrict Read More...
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Behind the Scenes of LINQ - Part 2

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:36 PM by knom
Last time we started by translating a LINQ query List < int > ints = new List < int >() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 }; var filteredInts = from i in ints where i > 5 select i; into an extension method (as the C# compiler does in background): Read More...
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XTOPIA - WPF Workshop Video

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:23 PM by knom
The video of my WPF session at the XTOPIA Conference earlier this year is now available online! Session Video Session Slides & Demos So have fun watching the 2h 4' of WPF fundamentals like data binding, styles, templates, XAML, etc... Read More...
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