March 2004 - Posts

• New Mailinglists

  My fellow MVP Christoph Wille startet some new mailinglists (next to the old ones about asp, asp.net, c#,.....). If you are able to read and write in german you should definitely check out these mailinglists: http://www.glengamoi.com Posted Mar 29 2004, 02:10 PM by Peter Koen with no comments

• Study Materials ?!

  Due to popular request; here's how I made my MCP Exams: My study material for 70-315, 70-316, 70-320 was personal experience with Visual C#. ;)  I'm using .NET Framework since PDC Techpreview - no need for a book there. For 70-300 I used the Book from QUE, from the Exam Cram 2 Series: http://www.informit.com/title/0789729296 This was a really helpfull book. A lot better than the MOC from Microsoft! Posted Mar 23 2004, 12:07 PM by Peter Koen with 2 comment(s)

• Made It!

  Today I took the MCP Exam 70-300 "Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures". Score to pass: 700 My score: 966! Seems that reading books and doing practice tests and also some expirience in the software market do pay off! Posted Mar 23 2004, 05:46 AM by Peter Koen with 8 comment(s)

• Breakpoint 2004 Invitation Intro released! - 100% cool code

  The invitation intro for this years Breakpoint party has been released! Get it here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11723 It's an amazing piece of graphics code. All done with DirectX 9.0b, C++ and x86 Assembler! Posted Mar 12 2004, 02:23 PM by Peter Koen with 2 comment(s)

• 2 articles about Windows Management Instrumentation

  Recently I wrote 2 articles about integration of WMI with .NET. Both have been released by DevX.com If you are interested you can find them here: Exploring WMI: Integrate WMI into the .NET Framework Once you learn how to integrate Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with the .NET Framework, you can utilize a completely new approach for managing system resources.  http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/20162/0 Exploring WMI Part II: Using the Common Information Model Part II of this WMI tutorial series discusses details of the Common Information Model Version 2 (CIMV2) schema and shows you how to query CIM to obtain detailed information about CIM objects http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/20183/0 Posted Mar 07 2004, 12:11 PM by Peter Koen with 2 comment(s)