.NET Swiss Innovation Award 2009 - unter diesem Label vergab Microsoft an den diesjährigen TechDays den Award für innovative mit .NET-Technologie entwickelte Applikationen. Trivadis AG erhielt die Auszeichnung für ein mit Bixi Systems gemeinsam entworfenes...

Die TeamConf 2008 ist eine Konferenz rund um das Thema Application Lifecycle Management und Visual Studio Team System und wurde diese Jahr das erste Mal vom 22. April bis 24. April 2008 in München durchgeführt. Rund 200 Besucher aus dem deutschsprachigen...

I use DejaVu Sans Mono as my coding font. This monospace font looks really nice on a dark background . On Programming Fonts many more coding fonts and links are available. Which is your favorite coding font?

" Dark Background Is Good For You " - this website lists more or less scientific reasons for using a light text color on a dark background. However, I changed my "visual studio coding environment text color schema" during x-mas holidays...

Not able to save modified hosts or lmhosts file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ ? Here is the workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923947/en-us

Wer die Lust (und evtl. auch die Nerven dazu hat), dem steht seit einigen Tagen die erste Beta von Firefox 3.0 zur Verfügung. Für die Techniker sind unter neue Funktionalitäten für Entwickler die Leckerbissen aufgelistet. Wichtige technische Erneuerungen...

Am 22. Oktober 2007 hatte ich dank der Mitgliedschaft bei Internet-Briefing die Möglichkeit bei Google Zürich einige interessante Einblicke in die "Google Engineering Culture" zur erhalten. Nach unterzeichneter Geheimhaltung gab es...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks exploit vulnerabilities in Web-based applications that fail to properly validate and/or encode input that is embedded in response data. Malicious users can then inject client-side script into response data causing the...

John Hrvatin talked about Web Development Tools for Internet Explorer at Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando. There, he introduced a tool called Ajax View , developed by Microsoft Research. Ajax View is able to profile a site’s JavaScript. It acts as a HTTP proxy that instruments JavaScript as it’s served to the client based on a set of rules defined by plug-ins. More information and first release download here , a good introduction here . ... and ... don't bother me - I know, there is (at least) a smarter browser out there, with an immense and open ecosystem of dev - plugins ... :-)

Make Firefox download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time: Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries and set the value like this: network.http.pipelining --> true network.http.proxy.pipelining --> true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests --> 30 (This means it will make 30 requests at once) Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Now, Firefox will load the pages much faster.

Microsoft has provided a set of MasterPages for WSS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7c05ca44-869a-463b-84d7-57b053711a96&displaylang=en ...read more

Acropolis is a next generation platform for building the kinds of applications that you currently build with CAB (Composite UI Application Block). With Acropolis you basically define your entire application in a very rich designer environment... etcetera...

The June 2007 release of the Web Client Software Factory is an update to the January 2007 release and contains the following changes: The guidance package uses the February 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Guidance Automation Extensions...

PhotoSynth is a amazing technology from Microsoft Live Labs that takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. In the future we will be able to...

Refactor! is freely available to all ASP.NET 2.0 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code and HTML markup. Refactor includes the following refactorings (and much more) Move Style...

One of the amazing new inventions (thanks to Web 2.0 Hype) are the Online-Desktop services, for example http://www.atoolo.com (free, beta, 1 GB Memory, free registration) http://www.mygoya.de/ (free, beta, closed user group) They provide different tools...

"Open as Visual Studio Website" command on any folder in windows explorer? Bradley posted an awesome how to , including the necessary macro and the registry entries. ...read more

DinnerNow is brand new Demo Application by Microsoft utilizing several technologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax Extensions, Linq, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Powershell, and...

Some weeks ago, I posted about the Web 2.0 Discussion Forum at the WEF . The whole discussion is available as Webcast or/and Potcast: The Impact of Web 2.0 and Emerging Social Network Models . Yihong Ding posted an excellent summary about the mentioned...

A good source with loads of articles and info's about wishes and possible features to Microsoft's next Internet Explorer . Even more information is available about FireFox 3.0 (codename Gran Paradiso ), the growing concurrence for Microsoft's...

In an older post, I talked about the 'sys is undefined' problem with ASP.NET AJAX RC1 . Last week I updated my samples to RTM Version and ... the problem is gone without doing anything! neither configuration or code changes inside the samples...

Wow - Live TV for free (even without swiss-local Bilag fee)! Currently 40 Channels available. Zattoo was founded in US in 2005 by Sugih Jamin, professor for computer science at the University of Michigan, and Beat Knecht, a swiss software product marketing...

Extreme, extreme - impressive emulation of Windows Vista by slovenians (and in slovenian language...) based on WPF/E technique. Loads of javascript to manipulate XAML (View Source) thru the DOM. http://www.vista.si/main.htm Make sure to install the WPF...

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software . It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools . Paint.NET is written in C#, the Source Code is available. ...read more

Some reasons to use Windows Vista (by Chris Sells). No all are obvious at first glance and easy to detect. That make this list invaluable. ...read more