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Windows Phone 7 – new update named Mango coming soon
Posted by Harry, 03.09.2011  (Comments)
If you have some knowledge of Silverlight and .NET it will be so easy to leverage your knowledge and develop for WP7 codenamed Mango. Please see this new ad for Mango update: !
Yay! my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app officially published
Posted by Harry, 02.09.2011  (Comments)
Today I uploaded my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app to Microsoft’s App Hub. It is all about the service provided by OnlineTvRecorder.com. It talks to their API to view TV programs/schedules, shows your own recordings as well as future highlights and top-recordings. An integrated search lets you search the OTR catalog using keywords. I [...]
Windows Phone 7: application development caveat with ViewModel entity class
Posted by Harry, 26.08.2011  (Comments)
The other day I played around with the newest release of the Windows Phone 7 SDK (7.1 Beta 2) and started by using the base application template. I created a new class that serves as the entity definition for the view model. The data is bound to a list box. Nothing spectacular. In design time [...]
Entity Framework Code First Migrations … sounds like a dream come true
Posted by Harry, 29.07.2011  (Comments)
Check this out: I just read this post from Scott Hanselman about an upcoming release from the entity framework team. This really sounds like a dream come true. For very long time now, I had to struggle with updates to database schemas. In almost any custom software development project you have to somehow take care [...]
SharePoint 2010: ‘Access Denied’ when using Managed Metadata Service terms in custom list
Posted by Harry, 13.07.2011  (Comments)
Within my SharePoint 2010 environment, I have created my own Managed Metadata Service including a specific term hierarchy. After doing so, I wanted to use these terms as a managed metadata column in a custom list. I was able to create new list items leaving the newly created metadata field empty. But, as soon as [...]
Samsung RS21KPSM Side-by-Side refrigerator not cooling (not it-related)
Posted by Harry, 04.07.2011  (Comments)
By way of exception, this post is not it-related. Since I have struggled to find some information on the web, I think this still could be interesting for some folks out there. A couple of days ago my wife noticed that our refrigerator is quite warm inside and it does not get to the specified [...]
Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)
Posted by Harry, 03.06.2011  (Comments)
If you are interested in cloud technologies, this is a great place to learn more about all Microsoft Cloud Technologies. You will find information on topics such as Hyper-V, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, virtualization and much more. I think it is a great source of information and learning experience.
C# and .NET Framework for Java Developers
Posted by Harry, 24.05.2011  (Comments)
For all you Java developers out there, have a look at this link in order to learn more about C# and the .NET framework.
ASP.NET: very slow page load leads to extremely poor user experience
Posted by Harry, 28.11.2010  (Comments)
Last week I learned a very interesting lesson. I am just in the end phase of a custom software delivery project. Using OLIVANOVA‘s model driven software development approach, I created a three-tier application with an ASP.NET client, a COM+ based server tier and MS SQL Server as the persistence layer. The COM+ application is deployed [...]
Windows Phone 7: tickWell social networking
Posted by Harry, 18.11.2010  (Comments)
If you care about privacy when sharing status updates then have a look at this Windows Phone 7 app named tickWell. tickWell is a social networking platform with a focus on privacy which enables you to record and share selected moments of your life.