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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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More reasons for Visual Studio 2008 by ChristophDotNet

Jon Box (Architect Evangelist extraordinaire) thought my post discussing risk differences between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 was a "Nice Job", but he actually did have a few comments on the new mobile-related features. He was right on,...
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When you see this, you've gone too far ... not with maps.live.com directions. by ChristophDotNet

How do you give directions to friends? How many times do you tell them, if you see the Starbucks you've gone too far -- maybe Starbucks is bad example because they are everywhere, but you get the point. It's a really useful way to give directions. When...
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Popfly blocks with Visual Studio 2008 by ChristophDotNet

Finally, the Popfly beta is available to the general public! What's Popfly, you ask? It's the mashup tool for the Silverlight generation and a community site to go with it. Mashups, that's that AJAX stuff, right? Not anymore! Why should mashups have to...
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Move Zune Songs From PC to PC or Zune to PC by ChristophDotNet

There's been a lot of Zune / Microsoft bashing because of the DRM feature. Now yesterday, I needed to move songs that I bought on Zune marketplace from my old PC to my new PC. (There were some songs on Guitar Hero II that I couldn't get out of my head...
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