Review: NDepend 2.12.1, Code Metrics at your fingertips (Part 1)

Thursday, 11 June 2009 18:54 by wvaneck
A while ago I was approached by Patrick Smacchia, Lead Dev at NDepend, asking if I would be interested to review their product. I have used it since then off and on but never really sat down to fully understand its potential until a day or so ago. I am going to focus on NDepend in a few... [More]

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TFS Status TV a.k.a. InfoKiosk

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:27 by wvaneck
In September of 2008 me and a colleague released InfoKiosk on CodePlex. The intention of the application is to inform development teams about the status of all projects in TFS. The application, made in Silverlight 2.0, looks like a continuous slideshow of various bits of information and is intended ... [More]

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Passing values from Silverlight to WCF services in SOAP headers

Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:59 by wvaneck
I am working on a contract which uses Silverlight 2.0, WCF, Entity framework, LINQ and so on to provide remote insight in the drilling status in the mining industry. While the project is interesting the problem I faced is securing the WCF service as the Silverlight app is used in the field and the d... [More]

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Error: 0020-80070643 when (re)-installing Windows Live OneCare

Sunday, 3 May 2009 21:10 by wvaneck
This blog entry discribes how to fix Windows OneCare general error 0020-80070643 but specifically a DIFXAPP driver signature verification error. [More]

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Attack on the Royal Dutch family, a very sad day in the Netherlands.

Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:22 by wvaneck
April 30th is traditionally a festive day in Holland as we celebrate “Koninginnedag” but today in Apeldoorn a car tried to attack the open touring bus the royal family was traveling in. The driver of the car drove through the crowd and fencing and tried to hit the bus. Luckily the car sustained eno... [More]

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Ideas for Windows Workflow Foundation series

Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:41 by wvaneck
I have been thinking about writing a series of blog entries about Workflow Foundation since I am trying to master this product as part of my MCTS exam. As always it would be easier to have some sort of end sample you can work towards and as I am not one that makes up stuff maybe you can help me by ... [More]

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TFS 2010 Introduction to Team Project Collections and TFS Farms

Sunday, 19 April 2009 19:54 by wvaneck
Brian Harry posted a blog entry today explaining some new concepts in TFS 2010. In his blog entry he talks about the introduction of Team Project Collections. Brian explains that the introduction for a new hierarchy level between the existing Server “node” and the Team Projects was nec... [More]

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Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”

Thursday, 9 April 2009 10:32 by wvaneck
  Today, Microsoft released the Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) of “Velocity” the project code name for a .NET caching solution which could significantly improve your applications performance. The following is the excerpt from the Microsoft web site: Microsoft project code named “Ve... [More]

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Team System 2010 – news from the field

Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:49 by wvaneck
Today, Brian Harry just started a blog about some of the new features in the upcoming 2010 Beta 1. Although he is not able to say when the shipping date is for the beta 1, it must be close. In today's blog entry Brian talks about 5 feature area’s and also provides a link to blog sites relating to e... [More]

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Microsoft .NET RIA Services Preview released

Friday, 20 March 2009 15:31 by wvaneck
Microsoft released the March preview of the .NET RIA Services framework. This framework aims to simplify the n-tier application pattern for ASP.NET hosted Silverlight applications. The March preview is the first release of this framework and was released and presented at MIX09. There were two sessi... [More]

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