It described my Windows 8 To Go (or W2G) experience in my other blog post (http://www.12qw.ch/?p=124). Here are the lessons that I learned: 1. Certified Drive There is a list of USB Sticks that are officially supported for W2G: http://technet.microsoft...

One of the really cool features of the new Windows release is the possibility to install it on a removable disk and have a full blown Windows 8 to go. However, taking a closer look I found out that there are a couple of issues. My prerequisites: A Windows...

A very typical scenario when using the XmlSerializer is that at runtime it throws a FileNotFoundException. However, the exception is caught within the XmlSerializer class and program flow continues without any problems. It is still inconvenient because...

A very common problem when using the BizTalk Administration Console Group Hub Query Tool is the following error message: The message was not found in the Message Box or the Tracking databases. This may be caused by one of the following conditions: (1...

The matrix effect applied to a surf video. Amazing stuff!!!! The action kicks off at 00:30. (link to video) How did the do it? (link to video)

This post is dedicated to the Consultant known as “The Gass”. Check out this video from Tel-Aviv university about quantum trapping. They provided a prototype for levitation. In other words: “Locking supercooled objects in a magnetic field” Uuhm, right...

Microsoft created a couple of videos that depict how our office and private lives could look like in the future. Have a look: Microsofts Vision of 2019   My personal favorites: The touch-enabled newspaper and the intelligent coffee cup. And there is one...

Today we tried to deploy from Visual Studio to our local BizTalk Server Instance using the Deployment Framework for BizTalk. At the binding import stage the process failed and reported the following error message: *********************************...

Open source Tools will help you boost your development productivity in a BizTalk Project. These are the tools you need! All of the Tools except for DebugView can be downloaded from CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com).   Deployment Framework for BizTalk...

Windows 7 comes with lots and lots of keyboard shortcuts. Some of them being extraordinarily handy. Here are my favorites: Open Command Window from Windows Explorer In Windows Explorer, right click a file or folder while holding down the shift key. This...

Creating BizTalk message schemas manually is usually a rather tiring task. A lot of typing and mouse-action is required. I really did not like to create BizTalk schemas until, one day, i found out that BizTalk offers very good support in the form of keyboard...

Visual Studio has another well hidden feature, the Mini Command Window. You can use the “Find” TextBox on the toolbar to start commands.   Just set the cursor to the “Find” TextBox and enter a command. All the commands start with ‘>’. Here is a list...

Visual Studio is shipped with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts. Here are my favorites: General: Go to Definition: F12 Find all References: Shift + F12 Go to last edited position in code: Ctrl - -  (Ctrl – Dash) ...

Working with Visual Studio 2008, I always end up with a total mess of code editor windows (tabs). These two tricks helped me a lot to keep things under control:   1. Track Active Item in Solution Explorer By enabling this setting, once you open the solution...

This post gives an overview about Live Mesh, Live Services and the Live Framework. Cloud computing is on the rise. The benefits of cloud computing programming paradigms are becoming clearer every day. But, as many problems are solved, new problems...

I’m am currently working on a project to evaluate the new Microsoft server product Dublin, often referred to as the new “Microsoft Application Server”. Here is a little introduction and a handful of useful resources. 1. What is Dublin? Dublin is a piece...

Did you ever sit in the office and feel sorry for your buddies? Let them hear your feelings with http://www.sadtrombone.com/ Another website the world was waiting for!!!  ;-) Technorati-Tags: Fun

This post continues my overview post about LiveMesh and the Windows Live Framework (http://www.12qw.ch/?p=13). It explains how and why the Live Framework is interesting for software developers and what you need if you want to start programming Live...

This post gives an overview about Live Mesh, Live Services and the Live Framework. Cloud computing is on the rise. The benefits of cloud computing programming paradigms are becoming clearer every day. But, as many problems are solved, new problems arrive...

It took me a long time to figure out what I could write about in my first blog post. Tataaa! I found a topic. Since I am eagerly learning WPF, I will present a list of some cool wpf demos that I found during learning and that helped me to understand how...

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