februari 2007 - Posts

28 februari 2007
What's new in .NET Framework 3.5.20209 (March 2007 CTP) Part 1
The .NET Framework 3.5 build 3.5.20209 was released earlier this morning as part of the Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP. Find the downloads here: Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP (Self-extracting Install) Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" March 2007 CTP Team Foundation Server (Self-extracting... Read More...
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28 februari 2007
The Office meets Microsoft
During our Microsoft Solutions Framework training here at Class-A we discussed some movies and series over lunch. A pretty common subject, but this time The Office was mentioned. The Office is a British production of the BBC and is a "real-life" documentary on an Office of a paper manufacturing/selling... Read More...
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27 februari 2007
Linq support in Compact Framework 3.5
Tonight I did some more browsing through the January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" and stumbled upon the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 . The .NET Compact FX 3.5 is first included in this CTP version. To my great surprise I discovered a System.Core.dll assembly was the one new assembly in the... Read More...
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27 februari 2007
Sniff your network: Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0
A little over a week ago Microsoft has released the third version of Network Monitor , a network sniffing utility. With this tool you can capture network traffic that passes over your network card. It allows you to see what really goes over the wire. Very useful when you want to verify what you are sending... Read More...
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17 februari 2007
Valve to introduce in-game advertising
Way back I posted about the potential of in-game advertising and other forms of virtual marketing. Now, more than two years later Valve (producer of the excellent Half-Life 1 and 2 engine) catches onto this very same idea and has introduced a beta version of Counter-Strike 1.6 that includes advertising... Read More...
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17 februari 2007
Hosting the LoginService in .NET 3.5
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In... Read More...
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13 februari 2007
XPS Essentials
Windows Presentation Foundation also introduced the Xml Paper Specification (XPS): Microsoft's counterpart to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Where you need the Adobe Reader application to view PDF files, you will also need a viewer to see XPS documents. This is where the XPS Essentials Pack comes... Read More...
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12 februari 2007
More on redirecting Diagnostics trace to ASP.NET
In my last post on ASP.NET tracing I showed you how you can redirect trace information from System.Diagnostics.Trace.Write* methods to the ASP.NET in-page trace block. I have some extra information on this topic. First of all, like any other listener you can apply a filter to the WebPageTraceListener... Read More...
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11 februari 2007
Viewing diagnostics trace info in an ASP.NET Website
Last thursday and friday I gave a course on ASP.NET 2.0 services at KPN in Groningen. I was covering the tracing capabilities of ASP.NET (available since 1.0, BTW) and showing some of the new enhancements in 2.0. To my surprise I found that combining the tracing of ASP.NET and that of the System.Diagnostics... Read More...
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10 februari 2007
The importance of releasing COM objects
Over the weekend I have been working on a project that involves a file processor service. The purpose of the service is to watch one or more folders and dispatch the incoming files to a corresponding file processor. One of the processors uses Captaris Alchemy , a document management repository, to store... Read More...
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