Sometimes you want or have to reset your web application, e.g. you did an update on some data, but the old data is still cached in the web application (most likely for performance) on the web server. … more
After my previous event for VISUG about Live Mesh, I was invited to my old school for another lecture about this technology for the seniors. But since the Live Mesh CTP was no longer available since … more
A Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform has been around for a year now since it was shown at PDC 2008. Since then there have been a few updates, but the … more
Sometimes it does happen that a directory (or even a whole disk drive) specified in your SQL Server’s (backup) maintenance plans isn’t available anymore. It’s less work to edit the … more
With Office 2007, developers are able to access and modify Office 2007 documents by using the Open XML Formats as an alternative to Office Interop. But even a few years after the release of Office … more
It’s a good practice to create a proof of concept in a separate project to test out some new features or untested ideas, or to try and fix a certain problem. This way you’re able to focus … more
A knowledge base is a place where people share their knowledge about some ‘things’. This can be the knowledge how to bake a pie, how to operate a machine or in our case how to fix errors … more
As many of you I couldn’t wait to try out Visual Studio 2010 Beta which was released this week. It was also a nice opportunity to try out the “boot from VHD” functionality now … more
Windows 7 introduced a new level of working with virtual machines with Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, which replace Microsoft Virtual PC. Some of the features are USB support, folder and … more
Some of you have been using Windows Vista and already know how to deal with UAC. But for quite a few, and for me personally, Windows 7 is our first touch with UAC. Some applications need sufficient … more
I can’t believe if you haven’t heard it yet, or maybe you were just so busy and forgot about it: Windows 7 is available for the community starting today (MSDN and Technet subscribers were … more
If you’re developing applications in WPF or Silverlight you’ll most likely be using the property change interfaces available instead of writing complex XAML code, or you should … In … more
It took me quite a while (more than 9 months to be exact) to pick a blog engine, customize it and put it online. But now it’s finally there, wide in the open, to share all my findings with you. … more
I'm still writing my first 'epic' post about how I did install, configure and fine-tune dasBlog. But I can already announce you that some parts of it (mainly setting everything up) will be a lot … more
This is something I didn't know until I stumbled over it by writing some code in a test project, copying it to my main application and getting build errors.
Everybody knows that you have a Contains … more
I finally decided on my blog engine (which would be dasBlog) and it's time to put my blog online and get myself a fresh new domain name. Over the next few days/weeks you'll see some of my old posts … more
Today I had the chance to speak about Live Mesh and the Live Framework for Visug, a belgian user group. It was the very first session I ever hosted and the preparations were a bit bumpy (my colleague … more