Archive for May, 2007

Zune team puts iPod Amnesty Bin at headquarters

It’s probably meant to be a joke, but nog official statements are given yet. Someone, probably from the Zune team, has put a bin in the headquarters of the Zune team where employees can throw in their iPod so they can buy (?) a new Zune. As you can see from the photo, not that [...]

BlogEngine.Net Released

Today I saw the notice of the first official release of the freely available blogengine.net. I already installed it once when it was in the alpha/bèta phase. Back then I saw the potentials and definitly the ease of customizing and integrating it. Nowadays when I look at the features list as well as the roadmap [...]

Internet Explorer Devoloper Toolbar is Final!

Somewhere in my earlier posts I mentioned the toolbar as a bèta piece of software. Well today I’ve learned on Snowball’s Blog that is has been released as a final version. More info: Snowball’s Blog Post Print PDF

Windowsclient.net New Microsoft Community Site

As you can read on the home page: The WindowsClient.NET Community Site Launches Welcome to WindowsClient.net, the community learning resource for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. This site focuses on all aspects of rich client development on Windows using the .NET Framework. New content from both the Microsoft product teams and from the community [...]

FileBrowser Control For Windows Mobile 6.0 Released

I’ve released the source code of the FileBrowser Control. Check the projects section! Print PDF

Installing Microsoft Codename "Astoria"

Since I’m going to take a further look at the Astoria project I’ve installed the necessary pieces to get started. Here I will give a brief overview on what to install. The pre-requisites are: – Visual Studio .Net Codename “Orcas” beta 1 Standard, Professional or Team Suite edition. note: The Visual Web Developer Express Codename [...]

MSDN Webcast on unit testing

Since I had to look for this at work for a co-worker of mine I decided to share it. Because it’s actually an on-demand webcast which requires you to register and so on… To save you all that hassle the webcast can be downloaded from this post. [display_podcast] Print PDF

Astoria video

On the Mix 07 website you can download the session that introduced the Astoria project. It was presented by Pablo Castro. The nice thing is that you can view as a Silverlight plugin, download the WMV or if you have a Zune download on there. & wmv & zune Silverlight video Print PDF

New technology to play with

I was reading through my feeds when I found a post of Bart De Smet that summed up some of the newly announced “stuff” at Mix 07 . One announcement in particular caught my eye it was the project codenamed Astoria . Astoria is a technology that will expose a data store through an ADO.NET [...]

He broke the build Dooh-Dah

We already had a Hill Billy, but this one looks like a mexican taking a siësta. (he’s indian actually ) Print PDF