Notice the 3,4 in the left column of this weblog? Yes, that’s my Windows Experience Index base score. There are quite a few people publishing their score on a weblog or forum. The way it’s usually posted is by means[…]
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Speaker Idol at Tech·Ed: Developers
Presenting a session at a technical conference (or user group) is not everyone’s favourite activity. Especially as most of us are just happy typing and clicking behind (or in front of usually) a computer screen. There are, however, also a[…]
Read moreBe cautious using XPathDocument and DTDs.
From the docs: “There are two ways to read an XML document in the System.Xml.XPath namespace. One is to read an XML document using the read-only XPathDocument class and the other is to read an XML document using the editable[…]
Read moreEdit developer content on the MSDN Wiki
Microsoft launched a Wiki website. The MSDN Wiki site is an experiment in order to see how it can integrate community contributions into the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation. There’s is already so much content available, but[…]
Read moreUser Account Control in Vista
For the past week I’ve been testdriving Windows Vista Beta 2. I wanted to install earlier builds before, but I never found the right drivers for my nforce4/sata-raid configuration. While running Vista, you will encounter one specific feature that is[…]
Read moreTechEd 2006 Web Casts: add the events to your calendar
Tech·Ed 2006 is sold out, that’s probably old news. If you can’t be there, you can at least watch about 40 breakout sessions that will be live from Boston – for free. You may try your luck accessing the page[…]
Read moreYes we know, beta 2 of Vista and Office 2007 are out
Does anyone know of an RSS Reader that allows you to filter out postings? I subscribed to the mainfeed of http://blogs.msdn.com/ and out of the 200 new messages (maximum on Bloglines), about 80% is the same posting (with a twist) shouting to everyone[…]
Read moreEdit duplicate rows from Visual Studio 2005 DataTools
In my efforts to write a beginner’s book on C# (in Dutch) I came across this bug. While I understand some of the reasoning in the Microsoft response: “Resolving this as by design. We need a unique mechanism to identify[…]
Read more[MVP] Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award
CodeS-SourceS / ASP-PHP Meeting
This weekend I had the opportunity to take part in the community meeting organized by CodeS-SourceS et ASP-PHP. Besides the fact that it was great fun to meet old and make new friends, the highlight of the day was to[…]
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