April 2007 - CS MVP Bloggers

So things appear to be rolling forward nicely as far as getting started with my new gig over at Microsoft. I'll be flying out to Seattle on May 6th for the 3 weeks of training that all Premier Field Engineers (PFE's) go through. Most of the training will be at Microsoft's Sammamish campus with a couple of days at the main Redmond campus (MS has 3 large campuses in and around Seattle...Issaquah is the 3rd). Following that 3 weeks of training, I'll do another month of shadowing other...

I've spent this weekend (28th -> 30th) Updating NB Development to the latest version of Community Server , as well as giving the front page a bit of a face lift. I really hope you like the new look. I'll be doing a few Webcasts (Yes I know, Webcasts), on how I went about configuring Community Server to do what I want it to do, as well as a few other things. First thing you will notice on the new look NB Development , is the flip box, with quick images about the main sections, this is ALL...

Some time ago I wrote a blog publisher for CruiseControl.NET , but didn't manage to blog about it. In fact, it totally slipped my mind. However, my machine behaves more and more weird lately, so I started to clean up the hard disks and back up all my data. So today it happened that I stumbled over my old blog publisher and finally posted it here. Background: CruiseControl.NET (CC.NET) is a continuous integration server for .NET. Publishers are tasks that are executed by CC.NET after a build is...

Brendan Tompkins released CAPTCHA for CommunityServer 2007 : I'm happy to announce that CodeBetter.Com is carrying on the legacy of CAPTCHA for Community Server . CAPTCHA for CS2007 is the next generation of CS Guru Dave Burke's most excellent CAPTCHA control for Community Server 2.1 . This version is implemented as a Control Adapter which allows CAPTCHA to be added to Community Server site-wide without touching any ASPX or ASCX markup code. You can get the dll and source code here. The installation...

In the first post of this series I talked about some principles of creating a custom WPF control . In this post I want to jump in development details by talking about adding properties to a custom control. Normal Properties You know how to write properties for a class in .NET (is there anybody who doesn't know?!). But in WPF most elements use a special type of properties, Dependency Property. WPF uses dependency properties because they provide some extra features that are not provided in normal...

nb development converted liveside.net from a php system, to a fully fledged community server system. nb development made a custom made migration tool to port the blog system from one to another, with ease. Read More...

Mark August 24th 2007 in your calendar. On that date we ( Just Community e.V. ) stage nrw07 , the largest community event 2007 in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year it will take place in Die Börse in Wuppertal. List of Speaker and agenda are not finished yet, but we'll promise it will be a top-class conference. Don't miss it! Read More...

Last weekend I picked up a few games for my short holiday after training. One of those games was Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 . I'm a big fan of Ubisoft Tom Clancy's series especially Ghost Recon and Rainbow. As I had anticipated Ghost Recon 2 was as great as Ghost Recon 1 (even more). In my opinion Ghost Recon 1 and 2 should be in the list of Top 10 Best Xbox 360 games up to now (as they are right now). As a general short overview I have to say that graphic in GRAW...