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Videos of Steve Ballmer in Oslo

perove — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Typically we had a royal visitor in Oslo while I'm travelling around the world - the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer

Anyway Rune Grothaug in Microsoft Norway sent me a few links for the ones who did not have a chance to be there (great introduction by the way).

Here are the four clips:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - Oslo - part 1

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - Oslo - part 2

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - Oslo - part 3

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - Oslo - part 4

Preparing to go with Google Apps

perove — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:27:00 GMT

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 2008 and traveling around the world.

We’ll do some blogging and having a Flickr gallery for sharing (available by request only).

Moving your whole electronic life from having a home base to not having one requires some magnificent changes. Specially in regard to information such as email, documents, pictures and so on.

Inspired by Scott Hanselman’s podcast Moving your Email into the Cloud - Google for Apps and Live Custom Domains I just moved my family’s email service over to Google for the luxury of having all my email on the road without the hassle of bringing some sort of gadget in the bag. After using it for a few days I must say I like the idea of always being able to reach all of my email history wherever there is a pc with an Internet connection that I can use.

To upload all my email I followed the tip from the podcast about using the gMove utility from Limitnone for uploading all my email (all though I had some crashes using the software). A big timesaver and absolutely worth the money. The big gaps I see so far is that the Google Reader service is now missing (!) and there is no easy way to merge/transfer my documents from the old Gmail account into the brand new Google Apps account.

It’s really effective this of concept Google by labeling the emails instead of putting them into folders – this way you can tag one email with several relevant labels. The downside as I see it is that there is no concept (for the tag or labeling concept in general in the world of it) to make some sort of label hierarchy. I guess I will get over the obsession of storing my information in some sort of nested labels/hierarchy approach as the idea of having only a flat hierarchy to work with – but I still struggle a bit on that one.

Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows is here

perove — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:47:00 GMT

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.

The Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference available for download

perove — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:59:00 GMT

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’s available as a tif or png file.

It comes highly recommended as there is now no excuse for not getting the big picture ;-)

Norwegian .NET User Group and activities around Microsoft Robotics Studio

perove — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:08:00 GMT

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

NNUG events in Stavanger April 2007

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:30:00 GMT

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 of SmartPart (hosting user controls as Web Parts)
- AJAX-enabled Web Parts
- Connectable Web Parts
- Packaging Web Parts in SharePoint Solutions

Secondly on the 25th of April John Callaway from QuickLearn will give us two sessions focusing on BizTalk and Service Oriented Architecture:
- BizTalk overview demo med John Callaway
- Microsoft's SOA strategy med John Callaway

The NNUG Team hopes to see you there and thank you for your support!

Microsoft is launching service pack for Visual Studio 2005

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:45:00 GMT

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 support

Important Vista users: Additionally to separate updates addressing Team Foundation Server, Express editions of Visual Studio, there is a separate update for Vista users. The Vista update is in beta and is set to hit the streets in Q1 2007.

Read more about the updates here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx

Finally developers can go for Vista

admin — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:41:00 GMT

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

WinFX changes name to .NET Framework 3.0 with a brand new site with it....

admin — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:41:14 GMT

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.

Norwegian .NET User Group event in Stavanger 19th June

admin — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:47:51 GMT

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 check out www.nnug.no and select Stavanger (in Norwegian only).

Hope to see you there ;-)

Source Control missing in the File menu of Visual Studio 2005

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:25:26 GMT

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. Paste this one into the 'Run' dialog and push the button - Voila - it's back again ;-)

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ssscc.dll"

Good luck!

Sondre writing a great article on 'Making a Team System Automation Framework'

admin — Tue, 09 May 2006 02:20:00 GMT

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.

Microsoft Connect 2006 for EMEA countries in Nice

admin — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:35:49 GMT

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’m so excited about this three day event and I’m really looking forward to bring some of this content home to the .NET community in my city.