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A guided tour of Windows Presentation Foundation

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Since this year’s PDC, the graphical subsystem previously referred to as Avalon is now called Windows Presentation Foundation. If you want to know more about what this means for us developers, check out this 30-page article. It provides a comprehensive overview and a lot of code examples on how i...

September 21, 2005

C# 3.0 language enhancements in action

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While browsing the MSDN site, I ran into this lab that provides a surprisingly detailled hands-on experience with C# 3.0 and LINQ. I read the article, and as far as I understand it, the major features of C# 3.0 include the ability to write less code for the same constructs, and an abstract query ...

September 21, 2005

Mono on a Nokia 770

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Apparently, one of the developers of Mono (the open-source port of the .NET framework) has managed to run a console-based .NET application on a Nokia 770! Check out this site for more info.

September 21, 2005

Congratulations to….myself

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Well, today is one of those days… I became 32 years old. Happy birthday to myself :-)

September 20, 2005

Windows Vista at the PDC

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If you’re into Windows Vista, and you want to prepare yourself for the hundreds of PDC presentations that Microsoft will make available in the coming days (I assume…), check out the article Lighting Up On Windows Vista. It provides an overview of the various new aspects of Vista and the correspon...

September 19, 2005

Finding the right reporting solution

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Within one of our projects we are in the process of selecting a reporting solution to can match Microsoft Access’s reporting functionality. A couple of weeks ago, a Microsoft product manager gave a presentation on Sql Server 2005 and its Reporting Services. Today, a representative of Business Obj...

September 15, 2005