Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

WpfToolkit + VisualStateManager + Visual studio .net 2008 = hotfix time

I got into playing a bit with WPF. I had to look at some reference samples that were created by some of my colleagues and I found that I had an issue opening any xaml file in the visual studio .net 2008 designer. The problem was the VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups that could not be resolved. Appareantly this [...]

New Windows Live Beta

The Windows Live team released a public beta of the latest innovations in the Windows Live product family.All products have undergone updating and there are also some new things like the Windows Live Sync service. This Sync service is something I’m looking forward to since I was a user of the Microsoft Live Mesh program. [...]

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Release of Ril#

Today I released the website for my latest personal project, a .net library for the Read It Later Service API.  Through their api you can create your own client application. Using Ril# this is now easy to do in .net. Have a look at http://rilsharp.suddenelfilio.net Print PDF

MS Tag REST Certificate Issues

This week I received an email telling me that they got an error while using the MS Tag REST  service: System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority ‘ws.tag.microsoft.com‘. As you can see the authority is complaining about the Microsoft domain. The issue was the certificate used by Microsoft’s Tag [...]

Windows 7 x64 + nforce chipset + >= 4 GB RAM + large file copy = disaster

I’ve wasted an entire day AND evening on some stupid issues at work. I reinstalled my portable with windows 7 x64. Only to notice that after 6 hours of installing that some software that I need for work doesn’t play nice with x64 (I know because I tested it in x86 where it works just [...]

Microsoft Tag gets an update to their API?

I’ve been reading through the MS Tag support forums over at getsatisfaction.com and noticed that it seems they’ve picked up on adding new features that have been asked as business cases as well as a possible update the TAG API to be released. Note that I have not got any comfimation on all of this [...]

Microsoft Tag Rest API & Silverlight

Recently I was contacted by a developer that was working with my MS Tag REST service. He was was calling the REST API from within silverlight. I helped him out with some questions and in return I got a sample project that I can distribute as reference sample. The sample will allow you to create [...]

Outlook Social Connector for LinkedIn

The social networking site LinkedIn released their Outlook Social Connector for Microsoft Outlook. Something that was new to me is that OSC is not an office 2010 feature anymore because it is possible to download osc for outlook 2007 and 2003 so you can use the osc connecters in the ‘older’ versions of ms outlook [...]

Microsoft Tag on HTC HD2

It appears that there are some issues for using the Microsoft Tag Reader application on the HTC HD2 device. If you are one of those unfortunate users, maybe the following article at XDA developers will just make your day. A member has posted an updated version of the reader application that works with your device. [...]