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Europe Union Developers Conference - Office 2003/2007 and SharePoint Interoperability Demo
The European Union developers conference last Thursday and Friday was really very exciting. It's the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 02/19/2007
Brussels... EU... I am coming...
Tomorrow, after a customer meeting in Linz, I'll directly head to the airport traveling to Brussels...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 02/14/2007
White Paper: My point-of-view on Microsoft's strategies around Service Orientation, BPM and ESB
Of course there are lots of articles on MSDN or the Microsoft Architecture Journal on Service...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 02/08/2007
SOA meets Software as a Service (SaaS) / Software + Services (S+S)
While researching and preparing for the upcoming 18. Architect Forum on January 24th next week on...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 01/16/2007
Creating a Windows PE Boot-CD with Windows Vista and Windows AIK to get rid of your Demo-Machines
About two months ago I discovered the Windows Automated Installation Toolkit (Windows AIK or just...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 12/30/2006
Whitepaper: Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory in the real world
In the past months I worked with RACON Software GmbH. on an architectural design and prototype for a...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 12/19/2006
Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and WPF ... it finally works
Do you remember my posts back from April 2006... during my prep-works for our local BigDays 2006...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 12/03/2006
TechEd Developers 2006 in Barcelona - My second session, "In-Depth Level 400 Demo in InfoPath Forms Services and SharePoint Workflow"
Yesterday I had the hardest session I have ever done at an international conference - a 75 min....
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 11/08/2006
TechEd Developers Barcelona - Windows SharePoint Workflow Project Templates
Within this little blog-post you can find the SharePoint Workflow Project Templates that I have used...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 11/08/2006
TechEd Developers 2006 - Pre-Conference Sessions on Visual Studio Tools for Office including WPF Interop
Yesterday Eric Carter, Martin Sawicki, both are Program Managers of the VSTO team at Microsoft Corp....
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 11/07/2006
Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# Special Edition - My first Paperback book
Finally Matthew and I did it - it's out. This summer during my vacation we finished our work for the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 10/02/2006
MSDN Briefing in just one hour - VSTS DbPro Edition... Demos, Extension and Download
Just one hour, then I'll start talking about Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/28/2006
What would you ask the architect of Windows Workflow Foundation?
I am really looking forward to our next architect forum this Thursday. Our special guest star this...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/05/2006
State machine or State-machine based Workflow
Last week I was faced with some sort of a special challenge. I went to the south of Austria for...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/04/2006
ASP.NET Workshop for Ernst & Young - Super-Large-Demo Download
Today I travelled a little bit for the Microsoft Global Account Team and the EMEA Microsoft Services...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 08/29/2006
Little nice feature in Vista... ResourceMonitor
I am currently setting up my Windows Vista 5472 for the upcoming customer meetings this week and...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 08/15/2006
My Key Note Demo - SharePoint v3 OM, SharePoint v3 Workflow, InfoPath and Office 2007 Client Add-Ins
The past two months, May and June, where just amazing. So many events and lots of changes - for me...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 06/13/2006
Sidebar Gadgets in WPF - Add On
After some discussions with the team they confirmed, that this will work with RTM, but there are a...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 04/28/2006
Big>Days 2006 - Great News for Vista SideBar uncovered... WPF in the SideBar!!
I am currently working on the Demos for our local Big>Days 2006 road show for Windows Vista and...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 04/25/2006
Security Technical Briefings - Part 2
Although it's nearly a week ago I feel as it was yesterday. On the second day (last Tuesday) for the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 04/17/2006
Security Technical Briefings - Train-The-Trainer... a looong evening (Part 1)
As some of you might already know, in Austria we are going to do Security 1:1 customer workshops for...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 04/10/2006
VSTO 2005 - "Inheritance" to implement "Template-based" Solutions - Download the code
Here you can find the sample-code for my last blog entry;) TemplateSolution.zip
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 03/27/2006
VSTO 2005 - "Inheritance" to implement "Template-based" Solutions??
Another question I got from the VSTO 2005 event in Denmark in February was a really interesting one....
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 03/27/2006
VSTO 2005 Deployment Challenges - Setup Client and Setup Server
This is a little follow-up from the VSTO workshop I did in Denmark on February 23rd and 24th. The...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 03/17/2006
How-To: Override Smart Client Composite UI Block's Profile Catalog Source
Wow, my last blog is sometime ago. Therefore you even don't know that one week after my first flight...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 12/20/2005
The longest flight Sunday in my life ... or "going to Copenhagen just for buying some aftershave"
Yesterday I planned to go to Redmond for the second part of the Office 12 TAP workshop that the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 11/28/2005
Session Voting for Launch Conference
I have created a little session voting tool for the launch conference in Austria to get a feeling of...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 11/13/2005
Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Launch Conference in Vienna!
Our Launch Conference 2005 is getting real now. The agenda is final, the Conference Web Site is...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 10/11/2005
.NET Golf tournament in action
Wow, the tournament we launched with our cinema event last friday is already full in action. We have...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 10/06/2005
DotnetproTV & Security goes cinema ... with Ralf Westphal
Yesterday we had our MSDN connection cinema event in Vienna. Actually we have shown one of the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 10/01/2005
It's available - Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
I have just finalized writing an article about web parts and then I was wondering if my second book...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/26/2005
Some useful links for WinFX and Vista
As I have had a number of problems installing the PDC "The Goods" set on a Windows Vista PDC build...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/26/2005
The Pitfalls with the new Device Emulator (in Beta 2)
Today (or better tonight) I have prepared a Virtual PC with a huge amount of demos for customer...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/06/2005
My domain - "mszCool.net" ... Thanks to Alex Holy
Today we celebrated Alex Holys move to Microsoft EMEA where he is responsible for Windows Vista...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 09/02/2005
I remember the cinema event we did a year ago... and today...
...we are doing another one together with MSDN Connection Austria. But this time we are doing it the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 08/22/2005
2005 Launch Event Tracks ... nearly ready
Wow, what a hard week. But we are nearly ready with defining the most important details for our...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 08/18/2005
Planning Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Launch Event
Well, just back from vacation and I am finding myself deep in content planning for our big launch...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 08/16/2005
This is a cool site - escape from yesterworld
Just before I go on vacation for a week (yes that's short:)) - this is really a cool site. When you...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 07/29/2005
Enterprise Services with .NET arrived
Last week I got my first copy of Christian's new book, Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework....
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 07/18/2005
Smart Document Framework for VSTO 2005 presented at TechEd Europe
Wow, what an amazing week. TechEd Europe was really great and I enjoyed it (I am happy about the...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 07/11/2005
Visual Studio Tools For Office - 2003 and 2005 Side-by-Side
Currently I am using both, Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 for creating Smart Document...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 07/08/2005
Composite UI Block at TechEd
On Tuesday I had an email in my inbox - "Just released, Composite UI block". And actually yesterday...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 07/07/2005
Presenting in the Boarding Room of IAEA
Today Alex and I did a full-day workshop about .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 for the International...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 06/27/2005
Preparing for TechEd Europe while doing last part of local road show
Two weeks ago we started with our local road show called Big>Days through Austria. For our...
Author: mszCool [mario] Date: 06/12/2005