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  • Switching virtual networks the easy way

    For my laptop I am using server 2008 as OS. The main reason is Hyper V, for every different project I can fire up one or more appropriate virtual servers. For the details on setting up such an environment see this post . On the advantages of using Server 2008 R2 see this post . Traveling around the laptop...

  • Something you can (not) do with your (old) MSDN disks

    Time to renew my MSDN subscription. I don’t know about you but I’m still very pleased with the MSDN program. In the old pre DVD days it used to be quite a problem what to do with the enormous piles of disks you received over and over again. Especially those things you never use. Anyone interested...

  • Map control confusion

    When it comes to including geographical information in your web-application you have to make two main decisions. The first one is which API you are going to use, the second one is who is going to provide the geographical data. These two are not always completely independent. A lot of websites use google...

  • ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense

    Last Friday Scott Guthrie started his promo tour for VS 2010 and .NET 4.00 in the Netherlands. Dutch user group DotNed had to honor to host his performance.   For us it was Friday late afternoon. For him it was somewhere early in the morning (watch the clock on his laptop). Nevertheless he did two...

  • Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop

    Some time ago I repaved my laptop with Windows 2008, 64 bit. The main reason was Hyper V providing such a good support for virtual machines. I dedicated quite a post on all the details of setting up that system. The machine has served it’s purpose quite well being a very powerful mobile workstation with...

  • Giveaway: antique and nostalgic PC

    As said before, I am getting rid of my past . For year and years I’ve kept my first PC, as a kind of monument. But now it’s time to say goodbye to that too. As the machine is quite a milestone in the history of computing I guess (hope) there is somebody out there who can give her a place...

  • Predicting the future and getting rid of the past

    I spent the end of the summer holiday to tidy up my office. The amount of stuff I had collected over the years was so overwhelming that some serious action had to be taken. Here I would like to share some of my musings on the ancient stuff I have excavated. Predicting the future is hard but always a...

  • Domain driven reports: adding custom code

    In my last post I described how to create reports based on a domain model . Which led to many an interesting reaction. In this post I will explore some of my further explorations based on those comments as well on my personal requirements. In this post I will sketch a way to give reports a distinct place...
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  • Reporting against a domain model

    I have a love it /hate it relationship with reports. In many an application the reports are the main output. They are the prints which get filed or the invoices which have to ensure the ROI of the application. A good looking output rich with information does increase customer satisfaction. The downside...
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  • A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer

    A web designer is responsible for the look of a web site. She designs how the information is displayed on the pages, what illustrations are used and how the parts look together. Working with Visual Studio the collaboration between developer and designer can be streamlined. What usually works quite well...

  • A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7

    For some time now I’m using a laptop running 64 bits Server 2008 for mobile software development. The main reason for picking that particular OS were the great virtualization possibilities. In a more detailed post I described setting up the machine and working with the diverse network configurations...

  • Keeping a long running Silverlight application alive under forms authentication

    This is the scenario : we have a Silverlight application (SL app) which run is running unattended on a big screen in an office. It displays the actual positions of objects on a map. Once every 10 minutes the app queries the hosting web server for position information. The information is not public, it...

  • Every picture tells a story

    As you may have noticed we have some trouble with the images on the codebetter site. Despite all good care the majority got lost when upgrading to a new server. Too bad. Imho a picture tells more than a thousand words. At this moment my blog looks a little like a scrapbook where the pictures have been...

  • DDD and repositories. Without nHibernate but with lazy loading

    Domain driven design has become a very prominent way to develop software. A central domain model is used by all participants. To the end user it is a representation of the real  world. To the coder the model is a class model, working with the real domain world boils down to instantiating objects...
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  • The return of CopySourceAsHtml

    In a recent post I did a walk through of using the Google syntax highlighter . In the end I got it to work. As also the comments pointed out there are two major drawbacks. The syntax highligher requires some scripts. These are installed on the codebetter site but a post read from an RSS feed will not...
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