Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

December 2006 - Posts

Friday, December 29, 2006 5:18 PM

Introducing the <DataContract>

As we have seen in previous articles . Creating a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service begins with annotating the class with a <ServiceContract> attribute and an <OperationContract> for each exposed operation. The design of WCF uses
Posted by trobbins | 2 Comments
Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:41 PM

Playing with namespaces

The Root Namespace property sets the base namespace for all files in the project. If you want to set the the root namespace of a Windows Form project it is done through the following steps. 1. Select My Project 2. Within the application tab it can be
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:04 PM

Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Outlook SMS Add-in (MOSA)

Very cool looking little tool that I am downloading now to check out. This download will enable you to send SMS text messages through most Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phones connected to your PC using Microsoft Office Outlook
Posted by trobbins | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:28 PM

Making an Office Warmer

Since my move out here things have been a bit hectic. Between the move here, the great Washington’s blizzard, a bizarre wind storm and various other things. I am a bit behind. One of the new things for me is having an office. Having worked out my home
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Friday, December 22, 2006 12:15 PM

The Big Wind

In case you haven’t heard Seattle and the outlying areas had a huge wind storm late last week. Coming from New England I have to say it was pretty incredible and was a lot like the infamous Nor’easters. The unfortunate part was that this resulted in some
Posted by trobbins | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, December 18, 2006 2:44 PM

The Advantages of Running Applications on Windows Vista

An excellent read and congratulations to Doug for putting this together. The Advantages of Running Applications on Windows Vista Details improvements in the Windows operating system with the release of Windows Vista, and describes new features in security,
Posted by trobbins | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, December 18, 2006 2:07 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Visual Studio 2005 represents one of the most significant developer tools releases since the introduction of Visual Studio nearly a decade ago. It offers all types of developers a wider spectrum of development possibilities and a greatly advanced design
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:38 AM

Webcast Wrap Up

Thanks to everyone that attended yesterdays Webcast on Real World SOA. As promised you can find the slides here . Also as we talked about take a look at the recently updated Microsoft SOA site for some additional resources available here .
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:51 AM

Enabling Visual Styles

Windows XP introduces a new look and feel to the Windows user interface. This new interface provided controls that have rounded corners and that change colors when you pause your mouse over them. By default Windows based applications created with Visual
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Sunday, December 10, 2006 2:13 AM

RC of MSDNWiki available

In case you haven’t seen it. The MSDN library has recently made available a Community Content feature for the Visual Studio 2005 documentation and the .NET 3.0 Class Library on MSDN Online. This feature is designed to allow the community of developers
Posted by trobbins | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 09, 2006 6:42 PM

IIS 7 Hosting

Via Brian I got an email yesterday from Takeshi over at DiscountASP and they just launched free IIS7 Beta hosting for all customers who are interested. You can get all the details at http://www.discountasp.net/sp_iis7hosting.aspx This is a great way to
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, December 08, 2006 9:39 PM

Microsoft Expression Web Free Trial

Well worth the time! Microsoft® Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites which deliver superior quality on the Web. Check out the free trial here
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:03 AM

Looking at Assembly Information

Assembly information is an important part of building an application. This is what gets generated to the executable during compilation. How can you see where this data gets published? Within in a Windows application select the project properties From
Posted by trobbins | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:47 AM

Environment.SpecialFolder

A very useful environment enumeration is SpecialFolder. This provides an enumeration to special folders like My Pictures or the Startup menu. These folders are set by default by the system, or explicitly by the user. For example, ever try to get at a
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:26 PM

Integrating WCF with your existing ASMX Services

I am betting that you have at least one if not more ASMX services available today within your applications. So how do you get going with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and maintain that existing code? In this article we will look at an example
Posted by trobbins | 3 Comments
Saturday, December 02, 2006 6:51 PM

Looking for Workflow VB Samples

Paul has a nice list of the WF samples available for VB developers here .
Posted by trobbins | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 02, 2006 6:43 PM

Windows Live Search Beta for mobile

I just saw this beta and installed it. Very cool! More information and download for your mobile device is here .
Posted by trobbins | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:41 AM

MSDN Webcast: Enabling a New Generation of Dynamic Applications Through Service-Oriented Architecture

Join me for a Webcast In this webcast, we discuss the Microsoft vision for service-oriented architecture and show how Microsoft supports this vision by way of an integrated platform. Learn how you can use your existing systems, line-of-business (LOB)
Posted by trobbins | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, December 01, 2006 11:40 PM

2007 Office System Sample: Open XML File Format Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005

Pretty nice set of snippets This download includes snippets for use when customizing Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Download and install these snippets to your Visual Studio code snippet
Posted by trobbins | 2 Comments
Friday, December 01, 2006 1:51 AM

Office 2007 Webcasts

Attend three webcasts and get a free copy. Definitely not a bad deal! http://www.powertogether.com/
Posted by trobbins | 0 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker