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PDC Tag 2: Windows 7, VS 2010 + .NET 4, Live Services, Office Online

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:06 PM by frankpr
Die 1. Keynote des 2. PDC-Tages ist gerade vorüber (30 Minuten überzogen), und WOW! - was für ein Feuerwerk! Windows 7 : UI-Verbesserungen, Multi-Touch, Performance, Sicherheit, Konfigurierbarkeit - und ein neues Notepad :-) Windows 7 wird Read More...
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Cool Vista quick launch keyboard shortcut: Windows + <n>

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:55 PM by frankpr
This is totally off-topic, and most people out there probably know this already (or do they?), but I love this Vista feature that I discovered by accident today, so I have to blog about it: There is a keyboard shortcut on Vista for launching the first Read More...
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No Flash in IE7 on Windows Vista? Here is the fix

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:27 PM by frankpr
Until recently I was not able to see any flash content ( Soapbox videos, e.g. ;-) in my browser on my Vista machine. Adobe's installer site told me that everything was fine, but other sites complained that I either had not installed Flash, or turned off Read More...
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SideShow kommt

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:50 PM by frankpr
Auf der CES werden vermehrt Geräte mit SideShow -Devices gesichtet - heise online berichtet von zwei neuen Laptops und funktionalen Details dazu. SideShow-Devices basieren ja auf dem .NET Micro Framework , das als Firmware fungiert, einen speziellen UI-Layer Read More...
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Vista RTM on my Toshiba M400: smooth update from RC2

Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:58 AM by frankpr
During the last couple of weeks, I was still using Vista RC2 on my M400 since I was on a roadshow, with all my demos built on that pre-release version, and I did not want to run the risk of ending up without a demo machine in the middle of the tour after Read More...
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Windows Embedded Studio on Windows Vista - database issue & solution

Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 10:49 AM by frankpr
If you have played with SQL Server on recent builds (Beta2 and beyond) of Windows Vista, you might have noticed that database connections using Windows authentication usually fail because of UAC ( User Account Control ) - even if the account you are using Read More...
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See Windows Vista

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:48 AM by frankpr
... here . Very cool. (Yes, it's Flash, not WPF - yet.) Read More...
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Webcast heute: Windows Workflow Foundation [German :-]

Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:14 AM by frankpr
20.10.2005, 16:00-17:00: MSDN Webcast: Highlight der PDC 2005 - Teil 3: Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Der Webcast vermittelt einen ersten Überblick über die wichtigsten Konzepte dieser neuen Basistechnologie für die Ablaufsteuerung in Anwendungen, Read More...
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Hasta la Vista, Longhorn...

Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:58 PM by frankpr
:-) Yes, the OS formerly known as "Longhorn" got its first preliminary official name: Windows Vista . (Remember, we don't have a Beta 1 yet...) See the announcement here . I will still wear my "Longhorn" jacket at the PDC in L.A. - it will always be Longhorn Read More...
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Avalon & video drivers

Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:58 AM by frankpr
I was playing with some of the current Avalon stuff today when I noticed that videos in my Avalon apps were all displayed as black rectangles instead of the actual video content. I was wondering why (this should work just fine with my hardware - an ATI Read More...
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Longhorn in 2006, Avalon + Indigo on XP/2003

Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 11:26 PM by frankpr
I'm currently in Bellevue, WA, attending a Microsoft event for us developer evangelists, and I'm just back into my hotel room from a meeting with Jim Allchin who gave us an update on the Longhorn roadmap - you can read the official press release here Read More...
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Longhorn 4074 fries my CPU :-(

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:26 PM by frankpr
Well, I got that fantastic Dell Inspiron 8600c (Pentium M 2GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo w/ 128MB video memory) which runs XP in Virtual PC faster than most of my other machines do on hardware , so I thought this would be the perfect Read More...
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Eine Woche nach Kassel

Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:49 AM by frankpr
Habe mich inzwischen wieder vom Technical Summit 2004 in Kassel erholt :-) Die Veranstaltung hat allen Beteiligten großen Spaß gemacht, und das Feedback der Teilnehmer gibt uns Recht (97% waren mit der Qualität der Vorträge zufrieden, Read More...
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Redmond again

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:44 PM by frankpr
Arrived on Friday in Seattle, for a MS-internal event. Staying at the Doubletree Hotel in Bellevue, quite acceptable. The jet lag finally got me on Sunday afternoon; since then I'm in (kind of a) zombie mode ... :-) Anyway, there's quite some interesting Read More...
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How do you pronounce "XAML"?

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:32 PM by frankpr
I discussed this recently with a colleague. I can proudly state that I was right :-) Authoritative answer by Rob Relyea : " zammel ". Very cool, esp. since there is also BAML and CAML ... Read More...
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