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Consuming an ADO.NET Data Service from Silverlight
When developing Silverlight line of business (LOB) applications we often need to get at some data from a database. There are various ways to do so. One option that is easy to get started with with is creating an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (EDM) and exposing...
Posted 06 January 2009 01:02 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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PDC session download
Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx . You see all sessions...
Posted 01 November 2008 12:17 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Red Gate to continue development of .NET Reflector
.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red...
Posted 20 August 2008 09:04 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 available
It is available from the subscriptions download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Get it while it is hot Enjoy!
Posted 11 August 2008 05:33 PM by Maurice | 5 comment(s)
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CodeCamp 2008
Afgelopen jaar hebben we het eerste CodeCamp in Nederland georganiseerd en dat was een groot succes. De meeste deelnemers vroegen om meer, sommige zelfs om een CodeCamp per kwartaal of een heel weekend lang. Nou hebben we dat laatste nog niet gedaan maar...
Posted 02 August 2008 10:39 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1
VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like...
Posted 16 May 2008 11:05 AM by Maurice | 11 comment(s)
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On the WF ReceiveActivity and WCF bindings
The new ReceiveActivity and SendActivity that marry Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are really cool . Getting started is easy because a new Sequential Workflow Service Library, found under WCF instead of Workflow...
Posted 26 March 2008 06:46 PM by Maurice | 3 comment(s)
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Software Developers Conference 2007
Talking about conferences we pretty much finalized the session schedule for the SDC this year as well. And the session schedule is even more impressive as last year. We are holding back on publishing it for a bit longer until we have confirmation from...
Posted 19 May 2007 04:06 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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1st Dutch Code Camp
The first Dutch Code Camp was held yesterday in Barneveld. With lots of people showing up there was a real nice vibe and all I can say is it was a smashing success. Lots of people wanted to know when we would organize the next one; someone even went so...
Posted 13 May 2007 02:05 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Code Camp update
Het is al bijna zover, nog minder dan twee weken en het eerste Nederlandse Code Camp is een feit. Alles tot nu toe wijst erop dat het een groot succes gaat worden. Zo was er een fors overschot aan potentiele sprekers en hebben we een mooi en divers programma...
Posted 30 April 2007 07:49 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Live From Redmond Webcast Series
Beth Massi, a former VB MVP who has joined the form , just blogged about a serie of blog casts the VB team is putting together. These web casts are all about VB9 and Visual Studio Orcas with stuff like LINQ, Offline data and SOA. Some interesting stuff...
Posted 11 April 2007 07:38 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Sander has just been re-awarded as an MVP and a fellow Code Camp organizer
Sander Gerz just posted here that he has been re-awarded as an MVP for another year. Good to here because he is certainly part of the active crowed over here. In fact he is one of the people helping to organize the 1st Dutch .NET Code Camp, see here ...
Posted 02 April 2007 09:00 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Unit testing in Visual Studio 2005
One of the things I always disliked is that unit testing was only available in the enterprise VS2005 SKU, just like professional developers don't need or use unit testing. Yeah right, that is one of the hallmarks of a professional coder is you ask me...
Posted 11 March 2007 06:16 PM by Maurice | 1 comment(s)
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MVP Summit
So I have been a bit quite these last few weeks. Well a small side trip to Rome was part of the reason . This is a HDR picture taken at night in the Forum. The picture is actually created from three small JPEG's I will redo it with the original RAW images...
Posted 07 March 2007 10:32 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Code Camp in the Netherlands
We are organizing a Code Camp event on may 12th in the Netherlands. Let us know if you are interested in hosting a session or just attending. More information can be found at http://www.code-camp.nl . See you there! Maurice de Beijer www.TheProblemSolver...
Posted 07 March 2007 10:22 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
So it isn't officially called Service Pack 2 but it is still the long awaited VS2005 updated for running on Vista. I haven't tried it myself yet as I am not running on Vista yet, that will happen later this year when I get a new notebook. You can download...
Posted 07 March 2007 10:14 AM by Maurice | 4 comment(s)
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Cool tool: Lutz Roeder's Reflector
Reflector by Lutz Roeder is probably the tool I use most often when developing .NET code, well just after Visual Studio 2005 anyway. And now there is a new version, 5, out. Still free, still excellent. Highly recommended. Download from http://www.aisto...
Posted 20 February 2007 11:18 AM by Maurice | 8 comment(s)
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Software Developer Conference 2007 - Call For Speakers
The Software Developer Network (SDN) has begun planning for its 16 th annual Software Developer Conference (SDC) to be held in The Netherlands on September 17 and 18, 2007. We hereby invite you to submit proposals to be considered for participation as...
Posted 07 February 2007 01:17 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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