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MCSD .NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise App Developer Upgrade Exam 1

Matt Mikulicz — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:20:25 GMT

Matt Mikulicz writes "I just finished the first of 2 exams for the MCSD to MCPD upgrade. The exam was 90 questions and divided into 3 parts (Framework, WinForms, WebForms). Most questions were typical of ..."

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ClickOnce - Create Strong Name Key - Access Denied Error

Michele Leroux Bustamante — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:19:18 GMT

Michele Leroux Bustamante writes "After rebuilding my machine a few weeks ago, once again I find myself running into old problems and trying to remember how to repair them. This time, generating keys to strongly name my asesmblies through the Signing tab in Visual Studio 2005. I thought I would share it this time in case others have seen this problem...and struggled with it... The Scenario: For a Windows client application, open the Properties for the project, navigate to the Signing tab, check Sign the assembly and create a new key. In the..."

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Mobile How To Hands On

trobbins — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:17:33 GMT

trobbins writes "If you learn by doing, these step-by-step hands-on labs are great ways to learn about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Mobile. Each lab includes sample code and a step-by-step instruction manual that will guide you through a specific development scenario. Check it out here..."

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Contact.WebPage

Peter Foot — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:16:24 GMT

Peter Foot writes "The Managed APIs in Windows Mobile 5.0 expose the Contact.WebPage as a Uri. The problem with this approach is that the user forms are free text and you can enter anything into this field. Probably 9 times out of 10 you'll enter an address such as ... And because the managed API passes this to the Uri constructor and it has no http:// prefix it fails and returns null. However there is a solution to workaround the issue. You can access the Properties collection and access the property and it will be returned as a string. So for example you would use:- "

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Episode 1: WinPE - the beginning

Windows Connected — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:12:22 GMT

Windows Connected writes "...In my previous life, I owned the imaging tools for Vista/Longhorn (the WIM format and the XImage command-line tool) and the imaging infrastructure used for the new setup engine (see my next post for a bit on that), as well as RIS (Remote Installation Services). But the majority of my time before imaging was spent as the Program Manager on WinPE. I've decided to blog about WinPE for this reason - to share the knowledge that is both stuck in my head and in old FAQ's..."

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Here Ye Here Ye, Announcing Office 2007!!!

Keith Combs — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:09:43 GMT

Keith Combs writes "So I stroll over to my favorite blog website and notice nobody has posted any information on Office 2007. How can this be? It must be Friday and everyone is at Happy Hour. Well, we interrupt your program for the following public service announcement: Important Links... "

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Microsoft Windows Vista availability announced!!!

Matt-MS — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:37:53 GMT

Matt-MS writes "That is right folks, Microsoft is planning on releasing Vista by the Holiday Season. So get those letters to Santa ready (feel free to use my example below):"

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Love Me Two Times

Tim Barrett — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:36:30 GMT

Tim Barrett writes "Want to take the 70-282 exam, but not quite sure you'll slam dunk it? No worries! Microsoft and Pearson VUE are giving you the opportunity to take a free second shot on any Microsoft exam (including the fabled 70-282). First, register for this offer with Microsoft..."

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design as a competitive advantage

Kintan Brahmbhatt — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:32:58 GMT

Kintan Brahmbhatt writes "...A majority of people including me, read most blogs through some flavor of a RSS aggregator - reader. But there is one blog that I prefer to read on a web site on the browser. EmilyChang's blog (see OneNote screen clipping on the side)on strategic design is designed in a unbelievably appealing and surprisingly simple style. The choice of colors, the size of fonts, and the placement of items on the blog are visually attractive. The are subtle differences in ..."

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Dang.. I wouldn't mind winning prizes just for searching the Internet...

Kevin Remde — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:23:05 GMT

Kevin Remde writes "Here’s the press release. MSN Search announced a new promotional contest yesterday, “Search and Win”, whereby you can win all sorts of cool prizes just for searching for stuff. “What stuff?” I don’t know exactly. But I know that each month there will be a hidden list of words that, if you search for them, you have a shot at winning a prize. The contest runs through..."

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Mobile Device Emulator for Windows Mobile 5

Kevin Remde — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:20:21 GMT

Kevin Remde writes "I just received an email from one of my event attendees asking me for a pointer to where they can download those cool Windows Mobile device emulators. They are included with the SDKs for the version of Windows Mobile you’re interested in. The most recent version is Windows Mobile 5. The SDK (including the emulators) is FOUND HERE. And within the online SDK documentation, here is the section on the Device Emulator... "

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Gimme some Sugar

Ward Ralston — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:19:59 GMT

Ward Ralston writes "CNET reported that we're working with SugarCRM on interop between Sugar Suite 4.5 and Microsoft's MIIS, Active Directory and SQL Server. Here's an excerpt from the article:"

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MSH and WMI

Rodney Buike — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:19:00 GMT

Rodney Buike writes "MSH is pretty powerful on its own, but integrating it with WMI via the get-wmiobject cmdlet can make it more powerful and reduce the need for more complicated VBS code... "

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Office Live released to micro businesses

Robert Scoble — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:15:13 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "So, I hung out with the Office Live team last week and got the skinny. Office Live isn’t what you think it is. It wasn’t what I thought it was (I was thinking it’d be an internet version of the Office Suite like PowerPoint, Excel, Word). It’s not. Get that out of your mind. And damn the marketers who are extending the Office brand. We love brand extension here, but that’s another debate for another day. So, what is Office Live? It’s aimed at... "

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Tips for joining the A list

Robert Scoble — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:14:35 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "I keep getting asked “how do I get more traffic?” Or, “how do I get TechCrunch to notice my blog?” Quick: go to Technorati and do the brrreeeport search. Now, which headline and opening text grabs you? Makes you wanna click? Hint: we’re all being slammed with hundreds of sites every day. The more interesting you can make your headline, the better. Think about what your headline will look like in the search engines and use every one as an opportunity to grab a little bit of traffic. Now, look at the... "

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Atlas and Ajax Resources

Kintan Brahmbhatt — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:53:57 GMT

Kintan Brahmbhatt writes "A few people have asked me about some introductory resources to ATLAS and Ajax.NET. I had asked the same question to Alex Barnett some time ago, and he had pointed me to some useful resources...."

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The brrreeeport report

Robert Scoble — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:53:27 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "OK, it’s been a little more than two hours since I asked people to put “brrreeeport” on their blogs to “mess with the man” and build a new kind of directory. So, in that time I went out for sushi with Jeff Julian and John Alexander, co-founders of Geeks with Blogs. Great guys and we had a good time catching up on the blogging world. Anyway, while I was out a bunch of people posted. Have you figured out what I was up to yet? Why, of course! It was an opportunity for me to... "

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BlogCode helps you find blogs similar to...

Robert Scoble — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:52:54 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "Ever find a blogger you really like and wonder “are there other blogs similar to this one?” Well, that’s what BlogCode is trying to do. Mine will be indexed shortly (I filled out a short “code” about my blog and at the end of it I learned that Matt Cutts of Google is similar to me. I already subscribe to Matt, but that does demonstrate that this is a good way to find out if there’s other bloggers who are similar to your interests)...."

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OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.Control2 in SDF 2.0

Peter Foot — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:38:42 GMT

Peter Foot writes "In SDF v1 I wrote a class called ControlEx which would allow you to host a native windows control within a managed Control. This was the subject of an MSDN article (of which much of the concept applies here too). The implementation was rather convoluted to work around the limits of .NETCF v1.0, and the control was constructed with a Control, which hosted a MessageWindow with some of it's style bits altered which in turn hosted the native control. Luckily hosting controls is easier in ..."

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How To: Showing Notifications with Mobile 5

trobbins — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:37:47 GMT

trobbins writes "Question: My company is in the process of developing an Windows Mobile 5 mobile application. One of the things that we need to do for the application design is show notification. I have read that this can be done. However, I can’t seem to figure out how it can be done. Do you have any code samples or ideas about how this can be done? Answer: When developing mobile applications using ... "

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