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Mobile Client Software Factory on VS 2008? Sure! by ChristophDotNet

One of my customers was interested in some of the cool features of the Mobile Client Software Factory , but they wanted to develop on Visual Studio 2008. The original version from p&p wasn’t updated to VS 2008, but Glenn Block has a post that describes...
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Apple ... Puhleeeeeeeeeze ... by ChristophDotNet

Apple is the new Microsoft? Right ... they sneak Safari and MobileMe onto my system - without me asking. That's the kind of stuff Microsoft got in trouble for back in the mid 90s. Isn't it? Now they are fast approaching being the new Netscape: C'mon,...
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Presentation Canvas - Not Your Average PowerPoint by ChristophDotNet

The linear style forced by PowerPoint and the metaphor of a slide may have reached their limits. At least support for other styles is on its way ... of course also from the Office team. The innovation team in Office Labs to be exact. If you've seen my...
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Innovation - Explore the Interactive Deck from TechEd 2008 by ChristophDotNet

As promised at my TechEd 2008 chalk talk Innovation 101: Tips & Tricks for Architects & Developers to Drive Innovation , here's a slightly evolved version of my interactive deck. I had thought that a talk on innovation should innovate on the presentation...
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Innovation on My Innovation Talk by ChristophDotNet

Here’s my ONE slide for tomorrow’s talk:     A deeper dive into the slide tomorrow at noon in Orlando at TechEd ;)
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Innovation – How do You Enable Techies to Innovate? by ChristophDotNet

Innovation is a key strategy to win with customers for several of the companies I work with. It’s a quite a successful strategy for technology and non-technology companies alike. Think of Microsoft , Google, Yahoo, Apple , Amazon , Travelocity or even...
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WPF UI Update from Background Threads by ChristophDotNet

I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty will result in fantastic looking apps -- but in reality...
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Silverlight 2.0 App Not Starting - Fix IIS by ChristophDotNet

Silverlight 2.0 introduces a new application model. Assets for Silverlight applications, i.e. code and resources are packaged up in a .xap file. When you install the latest version of the The Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 ( http://www.microsoft...
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Tool For Uninstalling VSTO Add-Ins by ChristophDotNet

I've been working with a customer on a very cool OBA - an Office Business Application - based on VSTO , Word 2007 and SharePoint workflows. During the course of that we built a lot of demos and sometimes we had to uninstall the demos. Phil Hoff from the...
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Little Differences in Barcelona by ChristophDotNet

You know the funniest thing about Europe? It's the little differences ... as we learned from John Travolta in Pulp Fiction . I'm here in Barcelona for TechEd Europe and one of the other little differences is the light switches in the hotel. You have to...
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