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As we are getting closer to the end of the year and more importantly closer to our one year trip I must say it’s getting really exciting now. We are about to close the plane ticket deal, renting out the apartment and now also working on selling our car. I sure am going to miss the car (a beautiful Toyota Celica T Sport), but that’s about it – and after the first few days with a few cervezas on the beach I’m sure I’ll forget about that too! Yes, my wife and I are closing the office for the whole of...
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Again Scott Hanselman has put together a tool list for developers. No need to say more – just check it out and enjoy the reading here .
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As I attended the MSDN Live conference in Stavanger today I noticed on a display table the MSDN Live team had supplied a stack of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference mini-poster. I did a quick check with Rune Grothaug at Microsoft Norway about if it was available as a file and he made aware of the download available at their site. So if you want it, check out the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Developer Reference Poster available from Microsoft Download at the following link - where it...
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Sondre Bjellås has been an enthusiastic member of our .NET user group in Norway for a while now and has provided the community with lot info around his experiences with Microsoft Robotics Studio. MSDN has even published a reference about this here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/aa731519.aspx Sondre's personal blog: http://fanms.com
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The Stavanger chapter of Stavanger of Norwegian .NET User Group is proud to present the following speakers in April 2007. Please check out www.nnug.no for details and registration. On the 19th of April Patrick Tisseghem will be the first one to drop by. He is a SharePoint MVP and is totally focused on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Building Web Parts for SharePoint Topics covered - Building essentials - Deploying and advertising Web Parts - Return...
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Microsoft has launched the first service pack for Visual Studio 2005 with over 70 improvements which includes: - New processor support (e.g., Core Duo) for code generation and profiling - Performance and scale improvements in Team Foundation Server - Team Foundation Server integration with Excel 2007 and Project 2007 - Tool support for occasionally connected devices and SQL Server Compact Edition - Additional support for project file based Web applications - Windows Embedded 6.0 platform and tools...
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This summer I installed Windows Vista Beta 2 with acceptable success, but without support for Virtual PC I had to roll back to Windows XP again. But today that all changes – Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2007 Beta (check http://bink.nu/Article8494.bink for more details). Key points are: - Support for Windows Vista as a host operating system - Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system - Support for 64-bit host operating system
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Last week Microsoft published a name change for WinFX. The new name is .NET Framework 3.0, represented with: Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace. Also there is a new common site for this .NET Framework 3.0 component bundle. Check it out at www.netfx3.com . It contains all you need regarding blogs, news, forums, samples, activities and resources.
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We're going to have a new event for .NET developers in the Stavanger area soon. Before we take the summer of we go through a few sessions with Team System and Windows Workflow Foundation. The Team System event will focusing on project experiences using Team System. The project has now used Team System for five months with great success. Additionally we take an introduction tour through the Workflow part of WinFX. The version used in this session will be the beta 2.2 release. For more information...
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I had the fun of not being able to get the 'Source Control' item back in the File menu of VS 2005. Very frustrating because I tried the basics like navigating through menus and option settings, uninstalling/installing Source Safe 2005 in hope that it would reappear in my menu - but nope.... After some 'snooping' around I found this posting to save my day: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=117391&SiteID=1 In short the posting says to register a Source Safe dll...
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Sondre (an important community guy and a Microsoft RD) has written a brief and good article on automating builds with Team System. Considering my interest in open source like NAnt, CruiseControl.NET, NUnit etc I find this a good reading. Check it out at his blog http://fanms.com .
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Right now I'm sitting at the airport in Frankfurt on my way to Microsoft Connect Event 2006 in Nice for the EMEA countries. We’re going to see some nice content from Rafal Lukawiecki, Alexander Holy, Hans Verbeeck, Clemens Vasters and Alex Taylor. The topics are: - “Security, Microsoft’s Perspective” - “Process Based, Holistic Security” - “Security Sharing – IE7, Vista, and Community Best Practices” - “The ABC of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)” - “Surface Ecologies in the Home” I...