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We are in the process of preparing a legacy Windows application for deployment as a Windows Terminal Services RemoteApp over the internet. O...

Following on from my previous post, there seem to be more people who'd like a .NET collection library that has the rich functionality a...

Summary: Some positive and negative points of the PowerCollections and C5 .NET collection libraries from early experience. It is no secret t...

After using McAfee's VirusScan product for the consumer market for a while, I still get very annoyed that it can only update itself if y...

Finally bought my own laptop two days ago and decided to give VMWare Server RC2 a try. I had used VMWare Workstation in the past, but since...

We have continued to use Skype in a virtual team setting and it works admirably well. This morning I installed the latest version which su...

I just read Martin Fowler 's ContextualValidation entry in which the following statements triggered me: "one thing that constantly...

Once we had mastered building a Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) file ( using WiX ) and got our application successfully installed, it was ...

I know, it has been very quiet here in the past months. Consider it a symptom of a lot of work in progress. The last week of that work I spe...

I have been using Firefox for a good while now and like it. So much, that I even set it as my default browser. However, that seemed a step t...

I have been rather silent since leaving LogicaCMG, but starting up on my own has taken more time than expected. First of all the amount of D...

I last tried Skype about a year ago, but kicked it off my home system after I started getting random calls from strangers. Bogus and/or com...

An interesting description of a company culture to be avoided: You can't have a company that entirely consists of high ability people, ...

I have notified LogicaCMG that I intend to start my own business by the end of April 2005. I am sad to leave a large and international netwo...

An AJAX thread on the TheServerSide.NET has resulted in another smart browser framework supplier: Isomorphic . The same thread also contain...

The Inversion of Control virus seems to have mutated sufficiently to make the jump from Java to .NET developers. Olaf Conijn writes about h...

Sam Ruby has started to write about AJAX best practices. A comment in one of his posts referred to a del.icio.us AJAX list which provided ...

I like irony and coincidence. I like it even more when the two come together. At the beginning of this year I wrote that a MVP award and a ...

More people seem to be interested in smart browser applications (my preferred term for rich internet applications...). A colleague pointed t...

Though I have had a weak spot for the Dutch football club for a long time, I expect to spend more time on the " technology ". I s...

Nobody but the Microsoft product team seems to know where the next release of SharePoint Services/Portal Server will be heading. Customers d...

I got seriously fed up with switching proxy settings when switching location of my laptop between company, home and client/partner networks....

It has been an interesting first week. I got a gmail account and became a Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Solutions Architect)! I need t...

Despite the observations in my previous post , my intranet publishing solution is based on a combination of the ASP.NET approach to obtain w...

In an e-mail conversation with Pascal Naber the topic of HTML "screen scraping" came up. I dabbled a bit with this a few months a...

I sometimes use build events to invoke tools such as xsd.exe and wsdl.exe for code generation purposes. Typically this requires a build even...

I'm rewriting some messaging code from scratch using a strict test-first approach to test-drive some XP practices and a number of (fairl...

Radovan Janecek points to a set of posts (Jump of the bus, take a cab I , II and III ) by Jean-Jacques Dubray in which Jean-Jacques indic...

Mike Taulty writes about how assumptions about service clients, for example the protocol they will use (HTTP especially), can influence the...

During a architect panel at TechEd Europe one of the questions centered on dependencies between services: Isn't there a contradiction be...

I am currently being entertained by the nerd (Clemens Vasters), the suit (Rafal Lukawiecki) and the fortune teller (Pat Helland) on the last...

During TechEd Europe 2004 there will be plenty of guidance by eminent people like Pat Helland , Don Box , Arvindra Sehmi , Clemens Vasters ...

There you go, I have launched into blogosphere. The process of commenting on other people's posts was painful enough to take the hurdle ...