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      • Connect to Azure AD secured SignalR Hub from your SPFx code
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      • Using the Sync Framework on Windows Phone 7
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      • WCF RIA Services OData endpoint does NOT support update or LINQ
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      • Building a location aware Windows Phone 7 application
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    • January
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    • November
      • Building Vista Media Center Add-ins (Dutch)
      • Honk twice if you see us!
    • October
      • Better WSSF solution structure
      • Consume WCF service using Sharepoint Designer
      • Day 0: arrived in LA
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    • August
      • First release of Viddler.Net
      • Viddler.Net on Codeplex
    • July
      • BizTalk Server capabilities poster
      • BizUnit Designer
      • Control Windows Media Center with New Windows SideShow BETA Gadgets
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      • Home Server campaign
      • How-To: New ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Video Screencasts
      • Map xs:string to xs:datetime
      • Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
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      • Released: BizTalk Server 2006 extentions for WF
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    • April
      • BizTalk Server 2006 R3 just around the corner
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      • Status update on MCE Guide Editor
    • February
      • Jonas Butt, the new IT-talent?
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  • 2007
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      • DevDays 2007, were you there?
    • May
      • First release of MCE Guide Editor
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    • January
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      • Pipeline Testing Framework for BTS06
      • Playing Blog-Tag
      • Storing configuration inside SSO database
      • Using BAM API to create related activities
  • 2006
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      • Add existing project from web drama
    • March
      • Developing for Vista Media Center
      • HTML Generator Stylesheet for BizTalk 2004 Maps
      • Increase XSLT performance by using xls:key
    • February
      • BizTalk Load Generation Utility reloaded
      • BizTalk Performance Tester released
      • DevDays 7 & 8 March
    • January
      • Happy new year!
      • Identify node type in XSLT
      • Suppress XML documentation warnings for a project
  • 2005
    • November
      • Access message properties inside custom pipeline component
      • BizTalk Server 2006 CTM Released
      • BizTalk's sexy new XSLT mapper
    • October
      • BizTalk 2006 Beta 1
      • BizUnit 2.0 released
      • Joining the overloaded web-log community
      • Workflow designer will substitute orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext
    • December
      • Load XmlSchema's from BizTalk assembly
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Honk twice if you see us!

Today I witnessed the arrival of eight Avanade branded Fiat 500 cars. They arrived in a single line in front of our main office, where they stand now. The orange / black color combination draws a lot of attention and enthousiasm. Together with the branding and racing stripes they form the perfect car for our core services team. Secretly, in our hearts, the customer facing employees, driving our big luxurous lease cars, would die to drive one of these babies ourselves.

Friday, November 28, 2008 Read
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Building Vista Media Center Add-ins (Dutch)

It’s been a while since I wrote an article on developing Vista Media Center Add-ins. A month ago the article was published in the Dutch .Net Magazine and today I found the digital version is available as well. In the article I demonstrate how to use the Viddler.com API to get a list of videos and display them in your add-in. The goal was to build a player for Viddler.com videos, but unfortunately the API method for getting the raw video is still not available.

Monday, November 24, 2008 Read
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Day 0: arrived in LA

Yesterday afternoon we (my collegues and I) arrived in LA. Purpose of visit: the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC’08). It promises to be a very interesting week with a lot of new stuff from Microsoft, including Windows 7, ‘Oslo’ and ‘Dublin’. After arrival we checked into our rooms, grabbed a slice of pizza, had a drink and went to bed. We tried to join the party by Jeffrey Pallermo, but the waiting time was about 40 minutes and we heard there was no more beer (no problem for me as non-alcohol drinking person, but some of my collegues seemed to mind :)).

Monday, October 27, 2008 Read
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Consume WCF service using Sharepoint Designer

By default the SharePoint Designer is unable to consume WCF services because it fails to recognize the structure of the request messages. There is a workaround if you still need to consume WCF services using the Designer. However, this does not work via the datasource wizard but instead requires some manual intervention. There are two methods to do accomplish this: Modify the datasource Modify the code in the page The first method is easier to implement and gives you more control over the output.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 Read
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Better WSSF solution structure

I’ve done my share of work with the Web Service Software Factory modelling edition, but never have I liked the solution structure it generates for me. Or either the namespaces of the projects are wrong, or the paths became too long because of the fully qualified names I’d use. This time I reserved some time to tackle this once and for all. The result is an easy to apply patch for WSSF: Modelling Edition.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Read
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Viddler.Net on Codeplex

Things are moving fast. Yesterday I released an early first version of Viddler.Net, a wrapper for the Viddle API. Today I was able to post an updated version to Codeplex, which seems more suitable for managing this project than my own blog. The updated version uses HTTP POST instead of GET and includes one extra implemented method to upload videos. Find the Codeplex project at http://www.codeplex.com/ViddlerDotNet

Friday, August 22, 2008 Read
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First release of Viddler.Net

If you read my article in the Dutch .Net Magazine about Vista Media Center add-ins and you came looking on my blog for the Viddler.Net api, you just found it! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read on This is my first release of the Viddler.Net api, which is a wrapper for the Viddler api. The Viddler.Net api allows a .Net developer to make use of the videos on the Viddler website through code.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Read
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Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide

From MSDN: Welcome to the first edition of the Microsoft® BizTalk® Server Performance Optimizations Guide. We created this guide to provide in depth information for optimizing the performance of a BizTalk Server solution. Full end-to-end performance testing is frequently overlooked during enterprise application deployment. Knowing that Microsoft has built a scalable messaging infrastructure, many organizations that use BizTalk Server spend little or no time conducting performance testing of their own applications.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 Read
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Control Windows Media Center with New Windows SideShow BETA Gadgets

From the Windows Experience Blog: The Windows SideShow Team has announced the availability of 4 BETA Windows SideShow Gadgets that let you control Windows Media Center from a Windows Sideshow device. You can sign-up via Microsoft Connect to gain access to Beta Test these new Windows SideShow Gadgets: http://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=2380&SiteID=312&InvitationID=GPB-79MM-RFJ2 Here is the breakdown of the 4 Windows Media Center BETA Windows SideShow Gadgets and what they do: Now Playing: View what is currently playing in Windows Media Center (includes playback controls) Pictures + Video: Browse your Photos and Videos folders Music: Browse your Music folder and play any song TV: Look at what is on TV via the Windows Media Center Guide, Schedule Recordings, and View Recordings (in a Thumbnail view)

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Read
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BizUnit Designer

From CodePlex: BizUnit Designer is a GUI that allows rapid creation of BizUnit test cases which can be used for unit testing or system testing distributed applications. The easy to use drag and drop user interface has minimal learning curve which will get you up and running with test cases in a matter of minutes. I’ve used BizUnit on a couple of projects (even non-BizTalk projects) and I think it’s very useful.

Friday, July 4, 2008 Read
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More BizTalk posters

Somebody at the product team has really started a rush to push out these nice looking posters. Here is a rather new one: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Database Infrastructure Poster http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=24662FB5-622C-4E7E-9E83-505D1F664C4D&displaylang=en And as a service to those of you that haven’t seen anyone of these: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8790E652-1DA5-4E80-88FE-B87606233DB4&displaylang=en BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34F41573-C552-466F-B531-32CB09A57CDD&displaylang=en BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations Poster http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FF468298-64BE-4947-A086-F61584CAF995&displaylang=en

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Read
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Home Server campaign

[](File URL) in case you haven’t seen this yet, Microsoft has a rather interesting marketing campaign around Windows Home Server. One of the parts of the campaign is a book about Home Server which looks like it’s written for kids. The book explains what the magic ‘Server’ in the house is all about. Microsoft went so far with this campaign that it actually looks like you can buy the book from Amazon!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Read
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