Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Setup Screenshots

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:59 PM by knom
Today I’ve installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate on a VHD-booted machine . The new version of our development tool is based on Windows Presentation Foundation, which means that a lot of new flexibility (e.g. diagrams within the code editor) are Read More...
0 Comments
Filed under:

IIS7: WCF Services - .SVC do not work

Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:25 AM by knom
Recently I came across a problem with Windows Communication Foundation Services and IIS 7. What I did is, deploy a .SVC file to my IIS 7. The service worked during development on the local ASP.NET Dev Webserver, but after deploying it to the server, there Read More...
0 Comments
Filed under: ,

CodeFest-Meals – Silverlight Webcast Series and Sample App

Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM by knom
During the last weeks I’ve been working on a Silverlight sample application called “CodeFest-Meals”. The sample application was built for a webcast series we’re doing on www.codefest.at . One of the goals of the application was to have a nice-design. Read More...
0 Comments
Filed under:

LINQ-To-Everywhere – List of LINQ Providers

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 11:23 AM by knom
This weekend I’ve built a small application, which queries the “Simpsons” seasons guide data and updates the filenames/descriptions. To do this I needed to query a CSV file. While searching for a LINQ to CSV file implementation I’ve found an interesting Read More...
5 Comments

Windows 7 – VHD Boot – Setup Guideline

Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:40 AM by knom
Windows 7 has a really useful feature called “VHD Boot”. With that you can boot your entire Windows out of a Virtual Hard Disk file (as those used with Virtual PC or Virtual Server). This VHD file is mounted as a virtual disk, you can use it as a normal Read More...
17 Comments

Slides and Demos from BigDays 2009 are online!

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:22 PM by knom
These days I'm travelling around austria with our biggest developer & IT Pro event Big>Days 2009! This year's theme was "packen wir's an" - translated "let's get to work"! Accompanying the theme we built a multi-tier application Read More...
6 Comments

Enable Instant Answers – in a country outside of the US

Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:05 AM by knom
IE 8 Searchbar – Instant Answers is really cool (see below). There’s only one problem: It doesn’t work in Austria (as in many other countries). I suppose it only works in the US :-) To make it work, you need to change the regional settings to “English-US”. Read More...
2 Comments

Attachment(s): Bing-Suggestions.reg

Custom Search Providers for Internet Explorer

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:12 PM by knom
I’m sure all of you know the search box in Internet Explorer! You can search ANY searchable site there via pluggable search providers. Per default some of them are installed, but you can add your own! Here’s how to do it: Go to the page you want to search Read More...
2 Comments
Attachment(s): LiveSearch-Suggestions.reg

IE 8 Searchbar – Instant Answers

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:34 PM by knom
Now that I’m running Windows 7 I’m using the new IE 8 as well. Recently I found a cool new feature called “Instant Answers”. Just enter some queries into the search box and you’ll get the answer in the drop-down box below the search box. There are different Read More...
3 Comments
Filed under: ,

Upgrade TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition to Standard Edition

Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 5:46 PM by knom
I’ve had a little playground TFS 2008 installation for a while for use with some “pet-projects”. I used TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition for this, as this is already part of MSDN subscription package. This edition works the same as the full one, but is limited Read More...
1 Comments

WPF Webcast - New Year's resolutions

Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:34 AM by knom
I’ve a lot of New Year’s resolutions for 2009 :-) One of them is to blog more often (we’ll see how this works..) another is to do a series of webcasts around WPF . We’re starting with our first WPF webcast on Friday, January 9th at 10am with an overview Read More...
1 Comments

Wake-On-Lan Client with C#

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:04 PM by knom
I bought myself an Acer L5100 Media Center PC, running with Windows Vista Media Center for Christmas. What I wanted was some functionality to wake up the media center out of shutdown mode. So I dig into Wake-On-Lan. Almost any modern network interface Read More...
3 Comments

Attachment(s): WakeOnLan.zip

IP Address Calculations with C# (Subnetmasks, Networks, …)

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:31 PM by knom
Recently I wanted to develop a wake-on-lan application for my media center. For that I needed the broadcast address of my local LAN. So I decided to write a small but interesting library.. (you can leverage it for all kinds of network calculations like Read More...
4 Comments

Attachment(s): IPAddressExtensions.cs

WPF Day in Dublin

Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:56 PM by knom
Last week I was in Dublin doing two sessions on WPF for Microsoft Ireland. They did a "Client-UI Day", where they featured WPF and Silverlight. The first session was given by the Irish Developer Evangelist Ronan Geraghty , who did an introduction to the Read More...
0 Comments
Attachment(s): WPF Sessions.zip

Silverlight Toolkit - December Release

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:55 AM by knom
The Silverlight Toolkit is a project built by the Silverlight product team, which contains a lot of "out-of-release cycle" controls. These are grouped into three parts: Controls Charts Themes Controls include various nice controls (lots of them Read More...
1 Comments
Filed under:
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker