Christian Nagel's Blog

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Paul Barlett finds a uncanny resemblance to the actor Shaun Williamson.

I can't find any similarities myself, but that's my personal view ;-)

Christian

New Microsoft Regional Directors

Congratulations to the new Microsoft Regional Directors:

Scott Watermasysk, Doug Seven, Drew Robbins and Jonathan Goodyear!

Great to have you on board!

Scott, thanks for the blogging tool :-)

Christian

More than 1 Year Blogging

I just found out that I'm blogging for more than 1 year. My first blog entry happened before TechEd 2003. With the last year the calculator-removal was a blog entry that was discussed around the world.

Here are the most visited blog entries of the first year:

• Microsoft to remove the calculator from Windows
• .NET 2.0: Database Independent ADO.NET
• C# Frequently Asked Questions
• Interface Inheritance
• ADO.NET Concurrency
• Filling Datasets with Multiple Tables
• Where to store localization information?
• Custom ResourceReader - TechEd Sample
• .NET 2.0: FtpWebRequest
• Upcoming ASP.NET and ADO.NET 2.0 Books
• Maximum length checking for UI fields mapping to the database
• Starting my own company
• TechEd 2003 - Building International Applications with the .NET Framework
• TechEd 2003 - Building International Applications with the .NET Framework
• CLR and Phoenix
• Whidbey Typed DataSet
• Hosting Windows Forms Controls in ActiveX Control Containers
• Creating Properties with Whidbey
• Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004-2005
• Microsoft Business Framework

Christian

dotnet.tv - English version!

Ralf Westphal is doing the dotnet.tv series since summer 2003. Now the first English version of dotnet.tv is available!

Read more about dotnet.tv and get a link to the Episode VI on WebServices from Ralfs blog.

Christian

Star Trek Sessions at TechEd 2004 Europe

There are multiple Star Trek sessions at TechEd Europe! Holger Schwichtenberg includes tribbles in  his presentation

• DEV306 - Building Management Solutions with WMI and .NET

My presentation already has Klingons in its title:

• DEV404 - Creating a Klingon Culture - More about Globalization and Localization

Not only Star Trek fans will get a lot out of these sessions ;-)

Christian

History Repeats

With different applications I see similar problems that are repeated year after year.

One example: show up the username either lastname, firstname - or firstname lastname. Changing the application settings only changes the behavior for new users but not for the existing ones.

How many applications did face this problem in their first versions? I've seen several.

Christian

Achim Ruopp - Welcome to blogging!

Achim Ruopp started blogging. I've met Achim at TechEd in San Diego. Achim is a great guy working at Microsoft to deal with internationalization issues, this is also shown with the title of his blog: "Tales from the Crossroads of Internationalization and .NET".

One of his first entries lists all Internationalization Sessions at TechEd 2004 Europe.

Achim, it's great to see you blogging :-)
Subscribed.

Christian

Hotel in Munich

"....furniture in the style of Louis XVI, together with the newest communication technology...."

Translation: analog line for dial in

Christian

.NET Compact Framework Programming with C#

A few days ago I received the new book ".NET Compact Framework Programming with C#" by Paul Yao and David Durant. This 1400 pages book covers a wide range of the .NET Framework - with the view from the compact devices. Differences from the CF to the desktop .NET Framework are always mentioned, e.g. with garbage collection, the CF does not have multiple generations.

The main parts of this book are

• Foundations
• Architecture, Platform Invoke...
• Building the User Interface
• Forms, Mouse/Keyboard Input, Controls, Data Binding
• Managing Device Data
• Smart-Device Data Storage, File I/O, Registry, ADO.NET, Synchronization, Remote API
• Creating Graphical Output
• Graphics, Text/Fonts, Printing
• Appendixes

All what's needed for Compact Framework programming!

Here is the link to Amazon:

Christian

Next time in the year 2125

Today we had a Venus-Transit, the Venus crossing in between Earth and Sun. A video of the transit can be seen here.

Next time this can be seen (from Europe) in 2125.

Frank Arrigo has some more links.

Christian