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I thought this is nothing for me. Instead I should write more entries to my blog.
However, I give it a try: http://twitter.com/ChristianNagel.
Christian Read More
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In der aktuellen Ausgabe der dotnetpro gibt es ein dotnetpro.tv Video zu LINQ! Read More
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Ingo has the list of all thinktecture's speaking at Basta!
7 sessions and 2 full-day tutorials!
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WinFX has been renamed to .NET Framework 3.0!
.NET Framework 3.0 includes
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Windows CardSpace (WCS) (previously known as InfoCard)
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Next week I'm visiting Munich for a few days. Because of the World Cup 2006 the hotel prices doubled. Tomorrow when I'm flying from Berlin to Vienna the first match of the World Cup is started: Germany - Costa Rica. If you're online, you can monitor all Read More
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A puzzle I've solved on my latest flights now is available for Windows XP:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dntablet/html/tbconSudokuSampleFinal.asp
Cool use of the Tablet PC!
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From Haiku to Origami - the news is released: the Origami Project is the Ultra Mobile PC!
The first products shown are from Samsung and Asus.
Beside the hardware, Dustin has great information about the Microsoft Touch Pack.
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Cool animations that don't give too much information about the Origami Project:
do you know me?
http://www.origamiproject.com/1/
wondering where to find me?
http://www.origamiproject.com/2/
The HTML source of this week's information Read More
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Hans Verbeeck has all the information:
TechEd Europe moved to November
new Location: Barcelona
2 seperate conferences for Developers & IT Pro
this makes it possible for more 400 sessions!
Great changes!
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We are just at the start of mobile computing. When I'm working in different countries around Europe using different ways to connect to the Internet I'm alway trying to answer the question "how could someone without much IT experience use that?". There Read More
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Shawn Steele created a custom culture for Klingon with an LDML file for Windows Vista!
Shawn's post Why and How I Chose Klingon for an Example gives more insight of Klingon. Shawn doesn't wear Klingon masks. I did. ;-) In 2004 I've created a custom Klingon Read More
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My friend and colleague Buddhike de Silva got the MVP award! He is MVP for the Windows Server System - XML Web Services!
Congratulations!
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Today I've received a congratulation email from Ken Rosen (Microsoft Program Manager, MCT) that I've reached the tenth anniversary of being an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). I didn't know that I'm already MCT for ten years!
Checking my MCP transcript, Read More
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Peter Nowak hat eine Plattform zum Informationsaustausch zwischen Ausbildern und Studenten ins Leben gerufen: http://fiaeon.net.
Alles Gute!
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Bookpool has published my list of favorite books! Check it out! Christian Read More
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Microsoft Hellhounds are the winner of the RoboCup German Open 2005! Christian Read More
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For TechEd Europe we (INETA Europe) need proposals for Birds of a Feather sessions! Meet other attendees with similar interests! Damir Tomicic has all the information about Birds of a Feather! Christian Read More
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Brad Abrahams fragt ob alle Programmierer Englisch sprechen. Ich selbst bevorzuge Englische Literatur; mir ist es auch lieber Englische Bücher anstatt deutschsprachiger Artikel zu schreiben. Von meinen Kollegen und Kunden weiß ich aber doch dass oft Read More
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Paul Barlett finds a uncanny resemblance to the actor Shaun Williamson. I can't find any similarities myself, but that's my personal view ;-) Christian Read More
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Congratulations to the new Microsoft Regional Directors: Scott Watermasysk, Doug Seven, Drew Robbins and Jonathan Goodyear! Great to have you on board! Scott, thanks for the blogging tool :-) Christian Read More
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I just found out that I'm blogging for more than 1 year. My first blog entry happened before TechEd 2003. With the last year the calculator-removal was a blog entry that was discussed around the world.
Here are the most visited blog entries of the Read More
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Ralf Westphal is doing the dotnet.tv series since summer 2003. Now the first English version of dotnet.tv is available!
Read more about dotnet.tv and get a link to the Episode VI on WebServices from Ralfs blog.
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There are multiple Star Trek sessions at TechEd Europe! Holger Schwichtenberg includes tribbles in his presentation
DEV306 - Building Management Solutions with WMI and .NET
My presentation already has Klingons in its title:
DEV404 - Creating Read More
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With different applications I see similar problems that are repeated year after year.
One example: show up the username either lastname, firstname - or firstname lastname. Changing the application settings only changes the behavior for new users but Read More
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Achim Ruopp started blogging. I've met Achim at TechEd in San Diego. Achim is a great guy working at Microsoft to deal with internationalization issues, this is also shown with the title of his blog: "Tales from the Crossroads of Internationalization Read More
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"....furniture in the style of Louis XVI, together with the newest communication technology...."
Translation: analog line for dial in
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A few days ago I received the new book ".NET Compact Framework Programming with C#" by Paul Yao and David Durant. This 1400 pages book covers a wide range of the .NET Framework - with the view from the compact devices. Differences from the CF to the desktop Read More
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Today we had a Venus-Transit, the Venus crossing in between Earth and Sun. A video of the transit can be seen here.
Next time this can be seen (from Europe) in 2125.
Frank Arrigo has some more links.
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Rob Howard is starting a new company: »telligentsystems!
Congratulations!
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I'm just sitting at the Vienna airport on my way to TechEd US in San Diego.
At TechEd you can catch me at various places:
The Apprentice.NET
At the bookstore to sign my new book
I will try to get some BOF experience for TechEd Europe
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Christia Read More
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TechEd San Diego - I'm at the RD Booth on Wednesday.
Thanks to Scott Hanselman for the graphic. Scott will be there on Monday and Tuesday - there's the chance to win a ticket for the .NET Influencers dinner.
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Sam Gentile not only has some comments about the startup of thinktecture, he also has some great comments about my upcoming book :-)
Sam improved the quality of the book as a great reviewer :-)
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A new consulting company with the focus on providing support to software architects and developers was formed. Every member of the team has a long experience in design and development of .NET solutions and together we are able to offer the best support Read More
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Web Services, ADO.NET, Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Indigo, Longhorn…. A team with 13 books, 150 articles, 120 conference talks gets together.More details tomorrow.
http://www.thinktecture.com
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http://www.thinktecture.com. All the information in two days.
Christian Read More
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A team of high-profile .NET specialists is stronger than everyone of this team on his own.
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Some rumours are spreading. What is true?
Four days to go for a great announcement.
I like Armand's comments:This is like starting a beta download and then having to wait a whole weekend for it to finish before getting to play with it :-)Can't wait Read More
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The countdown has started. Five days to go.
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Chris Sells blogs about problems with IM: Who are Iristyle, josefiend, Mongo, Moribund, cheers component? There's also a problem with the invitation dialog to find out who is behind the email. The Keith behind PluralSight turned out to be Keith Brown. Read More
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Are you attending TechEd Europe? I have a presentation about localization and globalization of .NET applications:
Creating a Klingon Culture
I already had a Klingon sample to extend resources with help of a custom resource reader:nuqneHdir Read More
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I never thought that I would get that many responses to my blog Microsoft to remove the Calculator from Windows.
Thousands of hits with my blog entry, and it is discussed around the world. Google didn't know about Nisbum and Repeou before my blog, Read More
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Channel 9 is available now!
The new link: http://channel9.msdn.com/
Channel 9 offers great ways to interact with Microsoft:
Echo Chamber
Videos
Who We Are
Moblog
Wiki
Forums
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News from Repeou:
The country Repeou threatens Microsoft to pay a fine as much as 10 percent of its global annual sales for monopoly defenses. The software giant is abusing its monopoly power by bundling several applications such as the Calculator and Read More
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Channel 9 has a page update: channel 9 coming soon..
Roy points out that there's already more information out there. I've checked the blogs and found this:
Robert Scoble - Channel 9 hype machine starts spinning up
Lenn Pryor - It's coming
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Today I had a meeting about Channel 9. Cool things are coming :-)
At the moment I cannot tell you more about it ;-)Just check the link from time to time.
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I'm just reading reading the book Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. This book gives a very good start for programming with the .NET Compact Framework. It covers architectural concepts as well as programming techniques Read More
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Harald Leitenmüller (Microsoft Austria) mentioned that the book Presenting to Win - The Art of Telling Your Story helped him a lot with preparing his morning keynote (Alex Holy and his team: Beat Schwegler, Mario Szpuszta and Harald Leitenmüller) for Read More
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Today I've received an email to be awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Visual C#!
That's a great birthday present!
There are a few Microsoft Regional Directors who are also recognized as MVPs. Most got MVP first before reaching the RD status; Read More
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This was a week with many different events in Austria!On Monday we had a dinner with invitation by Microsoft where I've given an X-Box to Ingo Rammer. This was an INETA Europe present because Ingo was one of the first INETA Speakers for Europe when Read More
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Bill Gates (now with the title KBE) had the ending keynote at the .NET Day in Vienna, Austria.
Bill talked about "Seamless Computing", an extract from his PDC keynote.
During the keynote a cooperation Microsoft and Mobilkom Austria was announced. Boris Read More
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Today Bill Gates will be given a honorary knighthood: Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, KBE.
Others with this title: Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Geldof, Steven Spielberg
Wednesday Bill Gates will have the closing keynote Read More
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Congratulations to Damir Tomicic for getting the Microsoft Regional Director status!
Damir is running the .NET User Group Bayern, and he is very active with INETA by building the German part of the INETA web site.
Welcome to the list of German Read More
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We have one more new MVP in Austria: Klaus Aschenbrenner. Klaus is running the .NET User Group Styria and is regular author of DotNetPro.
Congratulations!
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Congratulation to Peter Koen!
Peter is now MVP for C#.He is very active in the developer community. Peter had some presentations with the .NET User Group Austria, speaks at various conferences, and is now starting the SQL Server User Group Read More
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Matthew Reynolds has started WinFX247: http://www.winfx247.com.
It's time to move from .NET to WinFX ;-)
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I just had to work on some PowerPoint files using PowerPoint 2003 when I got the error message "The presentation cannot be edited because it contains only a read-only embedded font".
To resolve this problem the knowledge base article 827405 helped:
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My newest book arrived: Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook.
This book has a cookbook-style (as the name says). Every section starts with a "You want to...", and a how-to technique and comments that follow.Examples:
You want to create Read More
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Dino Esposito started a weblog!
Welcome!
Dino is the author of various .NET books, INETA speaker (Europe section)....
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Keith Pleas blogs about the Future of VB. Keith has the opinion that VB needs more differentation, and with VB it should be possible to do something that can't be done with C#.
I agree that VB needs more differentiation. However, I don't agree that there Read More
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Thanks to Rob Howard, http://www.asp.net has an RSS feed!
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