knom's developer corner
VSCode Extension for Office Development
Office Add-In development is great fun with the new API Model! Especially Outlook extensibility...
Author: knom Date: 02/01/2016
WordPress in Azure WebApps with Azure Sql Database
I’ve not done a lot of blogging recently.. With the last post on my OLD blog being from 2010. One of...
Author: knom Date: 01/29/2016
TechEd Europe 2010–Workflow Foundation 4.0 Session
Thanks for everyone who showed up at my session today! Please make sure to rate it in the TechEd...
Author: knom Date: 11/09/2010
Big>Days Content is online
The Big>Days are over! Two interesting weeks of presentations in Innsbruck, Graz, Wien and Linz....
Author: knom Date: 03/31/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Setup Screenshots
Today I’ve installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate on a VHD-booted machine. The new version of...
Author: knom Date: 10/20/2009
IIS7: WCF Services - .SVC do not work
Recently I came across a problem with Windows Communication Foundation Services and IIS 7. What I...
Author: knom Date: 10/14/2009
CodeFest-Meals – Silverlight Webcast Series and Sample App
During the last weeks I’ve been working on a Silverlight sample application called “CodeFest-Meals”....
Author: knom Date: 09/09/2009
LINQ-To-Everywhere – List of LINQ Providers
This weekend I’ve built a small application, which queries the “Simpsons” seasons guide data and...
Author: knom Date: 04/27/2009
Windows 7 – VHD Boot – Setup Guideline
Windows 7 has a really useful feature called “VHD Boot”. With that you can boot your entire Windows...
Author: knom Date: 04/07/2009
Slides and Demos from BigDays 2009 are online!
These days I'm travelling around austria with our biggest developer & IT Pro event Big>Days...
Author: knom Date: 03/22/2009
Custom Search Providers for Internet Explorer
I’m sure all of you know the search box in Internet Explorer! You can search ANY searchable site...
Author: knom Date: 02/12/2009
IE 8 Searchbar – Instant Answers
Now that I’m running Windows 7 I’m using the new IE 8 as well. Recently I found a cool new feature...
Author: knom Date: 02/11/2009
Upgrade TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition to Standard Edition
I’ve had a little playground TFS 2008 installation for a while for use with some “pet-projects”. I...
Author: knom Date: 02/09/2009
WPF Webcast - New Year's resolutions
I’ve a lot of New Year’s resolutions for 2009 :-) One of them is to blog more often (we’ll see how...
Author: knom Date: 01/07/2009
Wake-On-Lan Client with C#
I bought myself an Acer L5100 Media Center PC, running with Windows Vista Media Center for...
Author: knom Date: 12/31/2008
IP Address Calculations with C# (Subnetmasks, Networks, …)
Recently I wanted to develop a wake-on-lan application for my media center. For that I needed the...
Author: knom Date: 12/31/2008
WPF Day in Dublin
Last week I was in Dublin doing two sessions on WPF for Microsoft Ireland. They did a "Client-UI...
Author: knom Date: 12/17/2008
Silverlight Toolkit - December Release
The Silverlight Toolkit is a project built by the Silverlight product team, which contains a lot of...
Author: knom Date: 12/16/2008
A Valuable Tool for WPF and Silverlight
Working with WPF & Silverlight is really great! The only problem if you use it in production is...
Author: knom Date: 12/03/2008
Using the VS Templates for Composite-WPF-Guidance
This is about using the templates for a new project. First of all you need to download the templates...
Author: knom Date: 10/22/2008
Visual Studio Templates for Composite WPF Guidance
I've played around with Composite Application Guidance for WPF for a while now. Yesterday I did a...
Author: knom Date: 10/22/2008
Visual Studio Templates - Composite WPF Guidance - Installation
First of all download the template package from here. For an overview of the functionality see...
Author: knom Date: 10/22/2008
Team System + Gadgets + Outlook
If you're using Team Foundation Server, these utilities might be useful for your everyday's work: *)...
Author: knom Date: 10/15/2008
Silverlight 2 Released
Silverlight 2 is finally released! If you plan using it you need to install three things:...
Author: knom Date: 10/14/2008
Silverlight 2.0 Upgrade Experience
Silverlight 2.0 was released earlier this day. If you browse to...
Author: knom Date: 10/14/2008
A Must Have Tool - VS 2008 Snippet Designer
Mathew Manela from the Online Tools Group at Microsoft has written a really cool tool, which adds a...
Author: knom Date: 10/09/2008
.NET Roadshow - Demo Solution
The demo solution from our .NET Beginners Roadshow is no ready for download for attendees and all...
Author: knom Date: 09/19/2008
On the road - The .NET Beginners Road Show
From September 16th to 25th I'll be on the road with the .NET Beginners Road Show together with my...
Author: knom Date: 08/12/2008
BigDays 2008 - Slides and Demos
Here are the slides and demos of my four sessions at the Austrian Launch Tour "Big>Days 2008"....
Author: knom Date: 04/16/2008
"Hacking" System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient
In .NET 2.0 there is a cool class called SmtpClient within System.Net.Mail. With this class you can...
Author: knom Date: 04/16/2008
WcfSvcHost and WcfTestClient in VS 2008
There are two nice helper apps included in Visual Studio 2008, which allow you to test-host your WCF...
Author: knom Date: 03/24/2008
Silverlight 2 - Feature Overview
Last week in Las Vegas the upcoming version Silverlight 2 was presented. Right now the Beta 1 is...
Author: knom Date: 03/16/2008
MiX 08 Keynote News - Silverlight, IE 8, ...
Wednesday March 5th, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Endless crowds are trying to get into the keynote...
Author: knom Date: 03/07/2008
We're going to Las Vegas
As MiX conference currently takes place here - I travelled "over" to Las Vegas. 15h of flight!...
Author: knom Date: 03/07/2008
MiX 2008 - I'm coming!!
Hurrah! This year I'm allowed to attend MiX conference in Las Vegas! And I'm really excited! I'm...
Author: knom Date: 03/02/2008
Inside Workflow Foundation Activities
Activities are the heart of WF. Together they form workflows, control the flow or do loops. They can...
Author: knom Date: 03/01/2008
Advanced Workflow Foundation - MSDN Briefing
This week I had a session about advanced topics of Windows Workflow Foundation. Some features I...
Author: knom Date: 02/29/2008
Are male Tech-Geeks more corpulent?!
What made me think about this topic, was a combobox of shirt-sizes I came across during my speaker...
Author: knom Date: 01/23/2008
Funny VB-LINQ MSDN Manual
While browsing around in the MSDN library, I stopped at a funny page about LINQ in VB 9...
Author: knom Date: 01/22/2008
Silverlight-Showcase "CollectIT" Video
Recently I've been recording a Demo-Video of our sticker-collection application. It's built on a...
Author: knom Date: 01/17/2008
MSDN Subscription - Restrict DVD delivery language
If you have an MSDN subscription, I suppose you get a lot of DVDs in different languages like...
Author: knom Date: 01/17/2008
Behind the Scenes of LINQ - Part 2
Last time we started by translating a LINQ query List<int> ints = new List<int>() { 1,...
Author: knom Date: 01/10/2008
XTOPIA - WPF Workshop Video
The video of my WPF session at the XTOPIA Conference earlier this year is now available online!...
Author: knom Date: 12/05/2007
Free mail with Windows Live - Custom Domains
Recently I came across a really cool live server called "Custom Domains". This service is currently...
Author: knom Date: 12/04/2007
Behind the Scenes of LINQ - Part 1
Now it's getting confusing :-) As a prequel to my LINQ-To-Sql Article, I'd like to digg into the...
Author: knom Date: 11/12/2007
XNA - TechEd Event Resources
Thanks to everyone who attended our session earlier this morning! As promised you'll find the source...
Author: knom Date: 11/06/2007
XNA Session @ TechEd Europe
On Tuesday I'll be doing a session about the XNA Framework at TechEd Europe together with my...
Author: knom Date: 11/02/2007