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IE 9 pinned mode and else demo page
Short revival of my blog with sharing a site I created to play a bit with the new taskbar features...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 03/04/2011
A Few IE8 Tips for Developers And IT-Professionals
Use the WebSlice title for dynamic user related content The only information of a WebSlice that is...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/24/2010
Application Partitioning with MEF, Silverlight and Windows Azure – Part II
Welcome back to the partitioned blog post about application partitioning with Silverlight MEF and...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 04/28/2010
Application Partitioning with MEF, Silverlight and Windows Azure – Part I
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) supports you in creating loosely coupled and partitioned...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 04/27/2010
Tales About Working With The Azure Service Management API – Chapter III
After my last post I was a little bit dissatisfied with the fact that if you use the scripts...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/17/2010
Tales About Working With The Azure Service Management API – Chapter II
After I elaborated a bit on one of the base requirements to work with the Azure Service Management...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/15/2010
DHL Shipment Tracking Accelerator for IE8
Today it’s going to be a short and extremely non technical post however I thought this may be of...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 11/10/2009
Installing IEAK IN A VPC without Disk Space Determination
If you try to install the Internet Explorer Administration Kit on a Virtual PC image you may have...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 10/14/2009
Win7 your Visual Search if it speaks RSS
I already blogged quite a bit about the new Visual Search feature in Internet Explorer 8. Since this...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 10/12/2009
Update: Enterprise RIA Project Now Running on Silverlight 3 Release Version
As the release schedule of our Enterprise RIA template and sample application was a little bit...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 09/08/2009
Silverlight 3 Business Applications Made Easy
Jörg an I created a new RIA Template and sample application for enterprise applications based on...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 08/20/2009
Radio GaGa New Version And Live On Windows Azure
I took some more time to enhance Radio GaGa, the sample application from my last post. It now...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 07/13/2009
The ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight – An Example
During the last few weeks I was working with Silverlight again quite a bit. This meant I had to...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 06/09/2009
Physics, Silverlight and Visualization…Update!
Due to quite some unexpected demand for the sources of the knowledge management showcase published...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 06/08/2009
Short Gotcha When Working With Extent Initialization In ‘M’
Not just in order to show that this Blog is still alive but also because it may be a little useful...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 04/07/2009
Building a Visual Search Service for IE8 with WCF - Part V
With some delay here is the final part of the series on how to implement a IE8 Visual Search Service...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 01/15/2009
Using IE8 Beta2 IEAK with RC1 Bits
The release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is just around the corner and fortunately there is a...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 01/15/2009
Building a Visual Search Service for IE8 with WCF - Part IV
Well I have to hurry up a bit as I initially planned to have this series finished even a while ago...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 12/16/2008
Building A Visual Search Service For IE8 With WCF - Part III
It's definitely about time to publish the promised third part of this series. This time I will cover...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 11/26/2008
Building a Visual Search Service for IE8 with WCF - Part I
Beta 2 of Internet Explorer has been out for a while now and as you already know one of the new...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 10/25/2008
Some Thoughts about ALM featuring "Automatic Translation not Ready for prime time"
A few days ago I found a short essay on my hard drive which I wrote quite some time ago and wasn't...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 09/22/2008
Do A Gadget With Silverlight And The Award could be yours
This time just a short announcement and no broad epic technical essay as usual. The announcement is...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 09/15/2008
IE8 Beta2 - The RIA Slice
The Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released yesterday introducing quite some new features about which...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 08/28/2008
IE8 Beta Is Out And With It Some Slices And Activities
Today the MIX Conference in Las Vegas opens its doors and there will be quite some interesting...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 03/05/2008
Advisory - IE8 Web Standards Conformity
Today is IE8 day - Soon you will now why. And I will start with a short advisory regarding a change...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 03/05/2008
Windows Cardspace Meets Vista Media Center
It's again time to post a new blog entry. This time I thought it may be interesting to see how...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/25/2008
What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 3
The publication of Vittorio's book "Understanding Windows Cardspace" about which I wrote a post only...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/08/2008
Cardspace - Want To Take A Even Deeper Look?
Two days ago I found a small parcel in my office mailbox which contained a copy of a new book...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/07/2008
Inheritance In Its Original Sense - An Announcement
As you might have noticed it has been quiet on my blog for quite a while. And of course this has had...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 02/01/2008
Physics, Silverlight and Visualization...How Businesses Can Benefit!
Recently we had an engagement at a cutomer with a department responsible for knowledge management....
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 11/15/2007
What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 2
Q: Can a card be marked as "not exportable"?A: No this is not possible at the moment. After a card...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 10/15/2007
Astoria Dataservices Featured @ Xtopia
This week the German Designer Conference held by Microsoft took place in Berlin. I wrote a blog...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 10/12/2007
What you always wanted to know about Microsoft Cardspace - Part 1
Since the Identity Metasystem and Microsoft Cardspace is quite a complex topic but is a great means...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 09/26/2007
Smart Enconding Enables Content Reuse
As I work with many customers from the media and entertainment sector which naturally have a high...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 09/03/2007
Faster Or Richer - What Determines Success For Web 2.0 Platforms
It is not always clear what makes the success of a platform. This is even more true for Web 2.0...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 07/19/2007
Silverlight Is Cool Because It ...
As you all have probably seen, read or heard about the announcement of Silverlight the new Microsoft...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/16/2007
Quick Win Series - Silverlight Background Transparency With "Orcas"
Have you already tried to create a Silverlight project with Visual Studio "Orcas" and wondered why...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/15/2007
Astoria: Data Services for the Web
Although my colleague Frank Fischer already mentioned it already on his Blog I think the technoloy...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/10/2007
Astoria - Hello World Style Walkthrough
Create a new project in Visual Studio "Orcas". Be careful not to create a new website. Then choose...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/10/2007
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - With Silverlight?
Despite the fact that there have been already an amazing amount of blog posts about the Silverlight...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/09/2007
Mixing Up In Germany - XTOPIA Is Open For Registration
I just returned from a great Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas with some exciting announcements, great...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 05/07/2007
.Net 3.0 What? Where In My N-Tiers Can I Use It?
I often get asked about where the framework extensions introduced with the .Net Framework 3.0 fit...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 04/27/2007
WPF 3D - Blender Helps You Getting Productive
The last few days I played around with the 3d capabilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation...
Author: Alex Strauss Date: 04/16/2007