29
JAN
2006

Office 12 Ascend Training Paris

I followed the Office 12 Ascend training in Paris that was teached by Patrick. The training was very successful and Patrick showed a lot of interesting stuff and demo’s about Office and Sharepoint. So little time, and so much to play with, but thankfully there are the O12...
26
JAN
2006

How to install MediaWiki in 11 Steps

MediaWiki is a Wiki software licensed under GPL and written in PHP. Wiki allows users to easily add and edit content in a collaborative way. Wikipedia for example is one of the most popular Wiki’s based on MediaWiki. Below you find the necessary steps for installing...
25
JAN
2006

Applied Patterns – Part 1

Nowadays, is every kind of enterprise application more complex because there is the need to have much richer UI experience, integration with other systems, security, etc. Therefore it’s important to have a good architecture and design of your application, so that you can...
23
JAN
2006

Baseline Architecture Toolkit (BAT)

The patterns & practices team introduces a new project, called Baseline Architecture Toolkit (BAT). It’s a collection of carefully selected, designed, and integrated guidance assets which include: Reference Implementations Application Blocks (such as CAB and EntLib)...
23
JAN
2006

Virtual PC

Here are some interesting blogs that are dedicated to Virtual PC VirtualMachine Dugie’s Pensieve Virtual PC Guy There are some fundamental features in Virtual PC that you really have to look at. For example differencing disks, see HOWTO: Use Virtual PC’s Differencing...
19
JAN
2006

Installing the Windows SDK January 2006 CTP

The Windows SDK – Janary 2006 CTP is available for download and can be used for developing WinFX applications (WWF, WPF & WCF). This page give you the several components that are needed for developing WinFX applications, these are: WinFX RTC Visual Studio 2005 or Visual...
15
JAN
2006

Windows Mobile SmartPhone with TomTom

For a long time I was thinking about purchasing a portable GPS device and I also wanted to replace my old GSM. One of the most popular devices is TomTom Go, but I felt it would be better to integrate both into a smartphone. TomTom also has a product called TomTom Mobile 5 that...
09
JAN
2006

SQL Code Coloring – The Microsoft way

Some years ago on a project I needed a usercontrol for code coloring SQL statements. At that time I reused a dll library that is used inside the query analyzer of SQL server. I wrote a little article about that topic, I think it gives some useful information about COM interop in .NET.