December 2006 - Posts

Creating a Windows PE Boot-CD with Windows Vista and Windows AIK to get rid of your Demo-Machines
30 December 06 10:53 PM | mszCool | 2 Comments   

This posting describes, how you can use the Windows Automated Installation Toolkit (WAIK) to create images of your development machines and restore those images using imagex.exe. It furthermore describeds, how-to create a Windows PE version which you can boot from CD/DVD/USB-stick to image and restore you main OS-partition. Read More...

Whitepaper: Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory in the real world
19 December 06 03:48 PM | mszCool | 2 Comments   

In the past months I worked with RACON Software GmbH. on an architectural design and prototype for a composite smart client based on Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory. RACON Software GmbH, a Software house of the Raiffeisen Read More...

Enterprise Architects, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio... in Ireland
13 December 06 08:38 PM | mszCool | 0 Comments   

Three weeks ago I'd did a presentation in Ireland at an architects forum on user experience. This presentation was for the LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architects Forum), which is a type of forum held in just a couple of countries across EMEA. It was really Read More...

Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and WPF ... it finally works
03 December 06 07:30 PM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Do you remember my posts back from April 2006... during my prep-works for our local BigDays 2006 road show I discovered - with some limitations in mind - that sidebar gadgets can be created with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) via an IFRAME work-around. Read More...

TechEd Europe 2006 - My Thouhgs and Impressions (...and DEV412 Demo Download on Composite UI Application Block)
01 December 06 11:34 AM | mszCool | 1 Comments   

Finally as an attachment of this post you can find the demo I did in my session DEV412 about Composite UI Application Block at TechEd Europe Developers 2006 in Barcelona. I know, it took me some time, but as you'll read in my next post I'll do during Read More...

Attachment(s): TechEd_CABDemo.zip