augustus 2005 - Posts

31 augustus 2005
WinFS Beta 1 available

Just a quick note to mention that WinFS Beta 1 is available from the MSDN Subscriptions website. It comes with a separate (very thin) HTML Help file to help on installing the package. You will need Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2. Update: Once installed you will have a 10MB HTML Help... Read More...

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18 augustus 2005
Flickerfree graphics the easy way

My colleague Frits Ankersmit at Class-A just pointed me to a way to get flicker-free Windows applications in .NET for virtually free. Normally you would introduce a programmatic way to do double buffering, where you build the next image of a user drawn part of the window in memory. This requires quite... Read More...

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16 augustus 2005
Primer on Cross-Site Scripting

In its security push Microsoft evangelises (amongst other things) on defending against known weaknesses. This is done by using best practices and the best technology to migitate the risks of threats. One of the threats is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), where malicious (or simply annoying) script is injected... Read More...

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10 augustus 2005
Controlling Windows Services

Creating a Windows Service using the .NET Framework is pretty easy. Here's a quick primer, in case you don't know what that is about: The base class System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase will give you what you need to create a Windows Service. It exposes several "events" in the lifecycle of a service (Start... Read More...

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10 augustus 2005
Free e-Learning content from Microsoft

Microsoft e-Learning offers a lot of free online courses for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 until November 8th and 1st 2005 respectively. There is a lot of content there, so go ahead and check it out. All you need is a Microsoft PassPort to be able to login. The requirements for your pc are relaxed... Read More...

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02 augustus 2005
Malfunctioning PrintAll function in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Almost a year ago I told you how to do " printing directly from Internet Explorer without a Print dialog ". I had my doubts about the security aspect of this option. It reminded me of "the old days" when kids would fax entire black pages (looping around a couple of A4 paper with some tape) to make your... Read More...

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