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PDC Lives On

Gill Cleeren — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:54:39 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "Fellow Regional Director Sondre Bjellas took his camera the PDC in Los Angeles and created a great looking video report..."

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Inside Windows 7 Mesh and Live Framework

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:50:41 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "While Windows 7 has a greatly improved UI, it contains many more improvements over Windows Vista. Let's start by taking a look at what is changing in the new version..."

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Microsoft Research Window into the Future of Computing

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:06:40 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "Some of the most known technologies coming from MSR are DirectX, Windows Media Audio and Video, SQLServer, Robotics Studio... MSR also does hardware research, of which the tablet PC is a good example. The first conception of a tablet PC occured in the research center in the UK...we got a glimpse of the future of computing..."

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Windows Strata is Dead

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:56:03 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "A first application running on Azure is Bluehoo that will go live in a few hours from now. You can access it from... It's a Silverlight application using Windows Azure in the back..."

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Silverlight 2 Adoption Rate is Going Up

Gill Cleeren — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:48:11 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "Some other good news is that the adoption rate is really going up: over 25% and in some countries over 50% of PCs have the Silverlight plug-in installed. This should provide an extra boost in convincing that customer that a lot of his visitors already have it installed...Chrome will also be supported, and Silverlight for Mobile..."

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Two Options Debugging ADO.NET Data Services

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:20:37 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "...when developing a Data Service, it might be handy to get a little more information than just "An error occurred while processing this request". Here's how to achieve this...You can start by setting the UseVerboseErrors on the ServiceConfiguration to true, like so:"

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Silverlight Job Board App. Offers Really Rich User Experience

Gill Cleeren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:03:18 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "...a great looking - and real world...Silverlight LOB application. It offers a really rich user experience to the client..."

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"Brianna The Brain" Did Not Compute

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:08:30 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "PS: I was kinda disappointed with her answer on my question...You say: who is gill cleeren? Brianna says: That is a great question! Bummer...PPS: I'm now sure on the sex..."

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Microsoft Surface in 2008 Election Coverage

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:46:19 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "MSNBC is using a Microsoft Surface for their coverage on the US elections..."

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Solution for VS 2008 Crashing After Installing Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:08:44 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "...Since the installation of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, I had been experiencing crashes of Visual Studio 2008. The crash always occured when shutting down Visual Studio, but only if I was working on a Silverlight application...found what the solution for the error is:"

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Solution for VS 2008 Crashing After Installing Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:02:03 GMT

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Today is a Big Day - TrueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D is Free

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:54:41 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "Microsoft made trueSpace 7.6 available for free AND it offers connection into Live Search Maps. Using this feature, you can create SUPER high resolution 3D models...you can find a first tutorial on getting started with trueSpace and Virtual Earth..."

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What You Get With Windows Live on Windows Mobile

Gill Cleeren — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:30:45 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "...It's an application that enables you to collect some "tiles" on a touch-enabled screen. Each of those tiles is an app/service, game... that updates regularly and gives you the latest info on that channel (for example Flickr, Engadget...). I found it through the Microsoft Windows Mobile site..."

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PDC Opening Keynote Announced

Gill Cleeren — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:30:43 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "....opening keynote for the PDC is now announced....Vice President...will be welcoming over 5000 developers from around the world"

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Best Way to Deploy a VSTO 2007 Excel Add-in

Gill Cleeren — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:49:46 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "...after doing some more research on the subject, I found the correct way to deploy an add-in is a simple setup project created from Visual Studio...you need to add some registry settings as well as some other configuration. The complete procedure is explained here:"

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Best way to Deploy a VSTO 2007 Excel Add-in

Gill Cleeren — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:09:15 GMT

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What's up at TechEd?

Gill Cleeren — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:11:17 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "Silverlight 2 Beta 2 was announced at TechEd US. The new version will be available later this week. Along with this announcement, the following was also announced: Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available this August in 20 languages worldwide....An alliance with IBM...The first CTP of the Microsoft project code-named “Velocity,” a distributed, in-memory application cache platform..."

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Tutorial on Silverlight Data and Services

Gill Cleeren — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:22:23 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "I take you through building services that are ready to be consumed by Silverlight clients using WCF....look at 3 types of services your Silverlight application can connect with: self-describing (using WSDL, meta-data driven), non-self-describing services (REST APIs like Flickr...) and finally RSS"

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Pick up TheRegion Gadget

Gill Cleeren — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:13:46 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "TheRegion.com...it's "the place" on the web where you can read all the news, articles and other interesting stuff Regional Directors are blogging about... it contains a full database of all the profiles of RDs and an overview of all events being done by RDs."

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Revamping MSDN

Gill Cleeren — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:37:29 GMT

Gill Cleeren writes "....We'll keep an eye on this, and hopefully this is an effort in which Microsoft will engage the community also. There might be a lot of valuable input there of the people that use the site a lot. Microsoft...?"

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