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The Vista ScreenSaver Mystery Is Over
Since I've installed Vista on both of my laptop & desktop I just couldn't figure out what happened to the screen saver, It seems that it just refused to start up although I was able to preview.
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Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 on Vista
If you download Abode Acrobat Reader 8 and try to install it on your Vista machine it could be that you'll encounter the following message:
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Enterprise Library 3.0 Dec CTP on Code Plex !
Enterprise Library 3.0 Dev CTP is available on Code Plex since yesterday :-)
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Microsoft Code Zone Missing Proper Exception Handling Policy
On my Enterprise Library 2.0 course which was a part of the MVPs Week that took place last week I've talked about the Exception Handling Application Block which is part of the Enterprise Library and why its so important to handle exceptions the right way...
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Microsoft's MVPs Week
The Microsoft's MVPs Week classes are getting filled with pepole... Only few seats left !
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Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
For anyone who started distributing Office 2007 documents and ran into the problem of enabling non Office 2007 users to open his documents this compatibility pack is a must.
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MVPs Week - Regestration is Stating Today !
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Google Code Search
I was looking earlier today for some sort of code implementation as I was just too lazy to code it myself... then I remembered about google code search ...
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Entlib 2.0 Performance Comparison 64 Bit vs. 32 Bit
The Enterprise Library 2.0 Performance Comparison document provides an analysis Enterprise Library deployment in both a 32-bit (2 and 4 processor) and 64-bit (2 and 4 processor) environment and examines their relative performance to a 32-bit 2 processor server. The goal of this document was to obtain the relative performance measurements of the Enterprise Library Logging Application Block, Caching Application Block, Data Access Application Block and the scalability from going from a 2 to a 4 bit processor arrangement in each environment.
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.NET 3.0 RTMed !
.Net 3.0 formally known as WinFx RTMed yesterday so if you would like to use the following technologies in you apps :
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2007 Microsoft Office System RTM and Visual Studio Tools for Office Second Edition RTW!
As mentioned on Erika Ehrli blog the 2007 Microsoft Office was announced as RTM and also the Visual Studio Toold for Office Second Edition (VSTO SE)
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Windows Vista to Upgrade or Not
For some time now I've been thinking if to upgrade my system to Vista or not...
Last night I've decided its time to make the move, following is my opinion on my
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MVPs can buy TechEd 2006 / WinHec DVDs using MVP bucks !
Hello fellow MVPs !
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TechEd Eilat 2006 Videos !
TechEd Eilat 2006 videos are starting to appear !
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Advanced Distributed System Design Using SOA Course
Udi Dahan – Microsoft Architecture MVP will give an Advanced Distributed System Design Using SOA Course this week at Jhon Bryce, If you want to join the course there are still some seats left but hurry up !
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DrawString / MeasureString Offset Problem Solved !
When you are trying to use DrawString and MeasureString for example to print something it seems that there is a little offset to the right and the left of the text, using MeasureString doesn’t seems to do its job.
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ARCast – Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA
Ron Jcobs just published my Migrating Legacy System to SOA ARCast which was recorded during TechEd Eilat 2006
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Israel MVPs Go Karting
Last Wednesday Israel MS MVPs had a local go-Kart tournament only 9 out of 28 MVPs came…The ones who came had lots of fun !
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How to Consume WebService via unmanaged C++
Someone asked me how to consume webservice using unmanaged c++ client.
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Social Engineering the USB Way
An article that was published yesterday by DarkReading demonstrate how easy it is these days to hack into system even into credit unions !
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Changing the Login Background
Someone asked me today how to change the blue background of the login screen.
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Never trust solutions from unknown sources !
Would you run an EXE file downloaded from the net without running it through an Anti Virus ?
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Moving a winform using the arrow keys
A question that I've received today was how to move a winform using the keyboard arrow keys
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Office 2007 Beta 2 is public !
Microsoft released beta 2 of Office 2007 to the public !
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How to identify a browser refresh event
I’m currently writing a cool BHO ( Browser Helper Object ) and one of the things that I've noticed is that there seems to be missing a way to receive a Refresh event notification from the browser.
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The Beat Box - Arc311 Slides
For anyone who have attended my TechEd Eilat session about building a drum machine using Enterprise Library 2.0 and for the rest of you who are curious to see the slides… Download the slides
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Microsoft Support LifeCycle Index
I was looking for public information regarding support & extended support for Microsoft products and I was very happy to find (After some massive searching) the Microsoft Support LifeCycle Index
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TechEd Eilat 2006 Presentations
TechEd Eilat 2006 Presentations are starting to appear on the official TechEd Eilat Site
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ClearType & Graphics.DrawString
I was making some fine tuning to my system prior to my TechEd Beat Box presentation … one of the tuning was to change the vs ide to use Consolas the cool ClearType font.
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The Youngest Indigo (WCF) expert in the world !
Lately I had the feeling that someone is reading my books they were just not in the place where I left them …
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9.5 Giga of Mix 2006 Sessions are Online !
Mix 2006 Sessions are available online !
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Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands On Labs !
Microsoft Patterns & Practices just released the Enterprise Library 2.0 Hands On Labs !!!
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6 Days Left For TechEd 2006 & The Beat Box Presentation !
6 Days Left For TechEd Eilat 2006 !
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VS Integration for EntLib Configuration Console
When PAG released Enterprise Library they introduced us to the wonderful Configuration Console that did put the end of our prior miserable life of editing thous long configuration xml files. There is only one thing that someone forgot there and this is to have the configuration console integrated inside Visual Studio so that you will not have to get out of the environment every time you want to change the EntLib configuration.
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The Subservient Programmer
You’ve all probably seen the Subservient Chicken…
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Get Ready for The Beat Box !
TechEd Eliat 2006 is starting very soon…on 9 May 2006 !
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The Developer Highway Code
Thanks to Alik Levin I found out about this cool Application Security document from Microsoft…
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Feel the BEAT with Enterprise Library 2.0 @ TechEd Eilat 2006
I just came back from a Passover vacation in Italy and getting ready for TechEd Eilat 2006 …
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The Service Factory First CTP is out !
PAG announced today first CTP of the Web Service Software Factory. The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been built with the primary goal of helping the developer build connected solutions with less effort.
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MVP Open Day - Cambridge, UK
Last week bunch of MVPs had been invited to Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge,UK.
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Architecture insight event
Marc has a link to a revent architecture event that Microsoft UK held, the slides for the event are here.
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Microsoft Australia - It's ShOwtime !
I just bumped into Microsoft Australia ShOwtime and may I say WOW !
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Cool WCF Blog
Did you know that the MAXIMUM size of a SOAP message that WCF can process is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes ?
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Lets collaborate with Groove 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 includes a goovy app called Groove using this app you can share workspaces with your co workers anywhere anytime…
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VSTS MSF Agile v8.0
New versions of the MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement have been posted to the Microsoft Download Center.
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for Free
The full software for 32-bit and 64-bit versions is available as a free download !!!
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Eraser v5.8 - Cool Security Tool
Sometimes you have the need to erase a file or a disk in a way that no one will be able to recover it, this is exactly where Eraser comes into the picture… Eraser is a cool security tool with allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
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Numbered Bookmarks - Visual Studio Addin
Vadik Vaksin a colleague of mine whom have been working alot with Borland Delphi in the past decided that its time Visual Studio will have an option to create a bookmark with Ctrl-Shift-{number 0–9} and navigate to it with Crtl-{number 0–9} same as he had in Delphi.
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Six New Microsoft MVPs
Six new Microsoft MVP titles had been given to community contributers from Israel today :
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Override CLR Assembly Probing Logic
Junfeng Zhang just blogged about Override CLR Assembly Probing Logic, its good to finally find some documention about it.
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Microsoft EMEA 2006 Connect
I’ve returned last Thursday from Microsoft EMEA 2006 Connect event held this year at the Four Seasons Resort in Provence.
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Software Factories Seminar
Microsoft Israel hosted today a Software Factories Seminar by Beat Schwegler & Ingo Rammer, during the seminar Ingo demonstrated a cool DSL for managing the UIP Application Block and helping in defining the horrible xml configuration of the UIP using DSL state charts. The talk also featured the Guidance Automation Toolkit which it indeed a cool tool.
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Installing Vista Feb CTP inside VMWare
It took me four times to fail installing Vista inside VMWare till I figured out that I should google for the answer…
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A First Look at InfoCard
Do you want to learn about the new identity metasystem – InfoCard ?
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WMI Diagnostics
WMIDiag.vbs is a VBScript script designed to help you ascertain the current state of the WMI service on a computer. The download package includes the utility itself, a ReadMe file that discusses how the tool works (and how to best use it), and sample spreadsheets that provide information about the default WMI configuration on various versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Intellisense support for WCF configuration files - February CTP
Juval Lowy has posted an updated version of the WCF configuration schema here.
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And let the search war begin !
Windows Live Search is up… and finally Microsoft Search engine is looking good !
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Building secured applications with Oracle & .Net
Yesterday’s evening I gave a talk at the first meeting of the Israel Oracle .Net Forum, the talk focused on building secured application with Oracle & .Net.
During the talk we’ve talked about how to build secured application, I've started with a brief background of secured development and then entered to four main points:
Securing the connection string
Input Validation
Authentication
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TechED Israel 2006 - Dev Track
Yosi Taguri from MS Israel just published the list of dev track sessions in TechEd Israel 2006 !
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The Code Room - Breaking Into Vegas !
What do six world-class security experts, the boss of The Plaza hotel and casino, and viewers of The Code Room have in common? Four-and-a-half million dollars!
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Visual Studio 2005 Guided Tour
MSDN Magazine released a special issue named Visual Studio 2005 guided tour !
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Input and Data Validation p&p Security Training Modules
Keith Brown created six multimedia training modules for developers to help encourage them to write more secure code. MS Patterns & Practices just published them on Channel9, and they will eventually find their way onto MSDN
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Using InfoCards for User-Centered Identity
Do you want to know what InfoCards is all about ?
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8 Free eBooks from APress
APress offering several free ebooks on their website !!!
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Building Secured Application With Oracle & .NET
On the 28 February 2006 (Two weeks from now) I’m going to lecture about building secured application with Oracle & .Net at the Oracle & .Net Forum – Israel (Hebrew speaking lecture)
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Ready to launch Israel - The Videos !
Two months ago… on the 12.12.2005 Microsoft Israel Launched Visual Studio 2005 !
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Events & Error Message Center 2.0
I’ve just recived an update from Jon H. from Microsoft that the Error and Event Message Center 2.0 now supports full text search !
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Nimrod Luria - Application Security Arena
Nimrod Luria a fellow of mine who is working in 2B-Secure is now in charge of the Microsoft Israel Developer Security User group. Nimrod has a great blog about Application Security! Check it out here
On Tuesday (7/2/2006) there is going to be the first meeting of this group !
Here is the agenda:
18:00 – 18:30 – Microsoft Security Roadmap for Developers
18:30 – 19:30 Web Application Attacks
19:45 – 20:00 Ask the experts
Register for the meeting over here
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Enterprise Library 2.0 is out !
The long-awaited update to Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available - the official release is branded January 2006. This release of Enterprise Library includes six application blocks (Caching, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling, Logging and Security), and provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0.
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Windows Communication Framework - C# Usergroup lecture
Ido Samuelson gave yesterday a great lecture titled ‘introduction to Windows Communication Framework (indigo)’ at the Israel Visual C# user group.
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Its so cool to be a MVP !
About 6 hours ago I got a package from Microsoft via UPS … Inside I found this cool little business card holder with my name on it and 3 redemption cards…
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Vista Media Center - In Hebrew !!!
Microsoft Israel just published that they are looking for a QA guy to do some quality checks on Vista Media Center and adapt it to the Israel Market !!!
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VS Launch - Israel - The Pictures !
I’ve just recived yesterday cd full of pictures from the Visual Studio 2005 Launch event (12.12.2005)