- Posted by SondreB on January 18, 2010
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Learn how you can create the CSR (Certificate Signing Request) for Windows Azure, using Internet Information Services 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2. The CSR is used to generate the proper SSL by any certificate provider. You will know learn how to go through the process of securing your Windows Azur...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 5, 2010
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During the winter I’ve been working on a new project called Boks. Boks is a rich interactive application that helps you organize all your stuff. Stuff such as books, movies, games and more. Boks runs entirely in the cloud, that means all your stuff is stored online and there is never any need for ...
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- Posted by SondreB on December 28, 2009
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As we enter a new decade, one which will be called The Tens or Twenty Tens, we are ready to a fresh start on a new decade. One which will bring huge important developments in all areas where human kind puts it’s efforts and energy. Let me first give a general introduction to what others have predi...
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- Posted by SondreB on December 17, 2009
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This is a follow-up to my previous post on SQL Azure: Getting Started. This time I’m going to show you how to do things simpler. Thanks to SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 (currently in November CTP) you can now connect without any hacks or tricks to your SQL Azure instance. This will make it mu...
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- Posted by SondreB on December 13, 2009
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Here is an example that show how you can extend your Entity Framework entities with properties, which you might return from a stored procedure, a database view or inline SQL. The use case if when you want and need to return more data from your database than what is in your 1:1 mapped entity models. ...
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- Posted by SondreB on November 30, 2009
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Update: Some of the details in this blog post is no longer required, by downloading and installing SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 you get better support for SQL Azure. Read my post about simpler management with SSMS.
Here follows a step-by-step introduction to SQL Azure....
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- Posted by SondreB on November 20, 2009
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My blog is about technology, robotics and the future. One very important piece in today's society is the government of democratic states around the world. They are the policy makers that dictate a lot of regulations, which has and can shift the directions and progress of technological advances. Re...
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- Posted by SondreB on October 19, 2009
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Today Microsoft introduced beta 2 of their next update to Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. As a Microsoft Regional Director and Visual Studio Team System influential, I have used and tested this future version for a while. It’s represents the
first major upgrade to the Visual Studio suite since Visual Studio .NET was upgraded from Visual Studio 6...
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- Posted by SondreB on October 17, 2009
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Using Windows 7 and Windows Virtual PC has it's benefits. It's useful for managing a few virtual machines and you get decent graphical quality on the virtualized machines (Windows Aero Desktop). The biggest issues with Windows Virtual PC, is the fact that it cannot virtualize 64-bit OS. That means ...
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- Posted by SondreB on October 15, 2009
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Today I want to introduce you to a wide range of extensions and additions to Visual Studio. Lots of developers are not aware of the potential of your existing .NET skills and experience and how you can utilize them across multiple devices, form factors and platforms. Learn about Game Development, Cloud Development and Robotics Development...
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- Posted by SondreB on August 9, 2009
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Part of Windows 7 is a completely new platform for Location and Sensors. This is a framework that tries to remove the old legacy of COM-ports for communication with external devices. Even a lot of today's USB devices, still rely on the COM protocol to communicate with the PC. The Location and Sensor Platform in Windows 7 improves this with a modern architecture for arbitrary hardware sensory input.
Read more to learn how you can program against sensor devices on your own...
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- Posted by SondreB on July 15, 2009
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Here is a code sample that I wrote for a custom Windows Live ID Logon Dialog, that can be used when you develop desktop applications that integrates with the Live Framework SDK...
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- Posted by SondreB on May 3, 2009
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Learn about the new Virtual Windows XP, which enables full backwards compatability for Windows 7.
With the Windows Virtual PC functionality built into (separate installation) Windows 7, users will be able to run multiple types of virtual machines - which makes life simpler in regards to backwards compatibility of software.
Read on to see how my adventures with the latest release candidate of Windows 7 went...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 29, 2009
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Flickr Downloadr is a simple and efficient tool to download photos from Flickr.com that runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Flickr Downloadr is an open source project licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and is hosted on CodePlex.
Read on to see screenshots and video...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 8, 2009
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Computer security is one of the hardest things in computer science and engineering. It’s easy to make software today, anyone can do it. Though, not everyone knows how to develop security into their software.
Every week I come across insecure solutions and it frightens me, it gives me the willies.
See how easy it is to gain access to personal and private information if you're not carefully with how you use the net.
This is a must read for anyone that uses computers, I hope it can raise the awareness about insecure web services that we use every day in our lives...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 14, 2009
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For the last hundred years, humanity has rapidly been responsible for shrinking the world through our technological advancements. We are closer connected to those we care about and to total strangers. We are moving towards a society where you can be connected with just one degree of separation. Read more on how you can join the social web through micro-blogging...
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- Posted by SondreB on February 8, 2009
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We are daily faced with an information overload. It's not easy to be living a good digital lifestyle when you have a bunch of computers and digital devices. Learn how you can improve your home network and enter the Digital Lifestyle of 2009...
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- Posted by SondreB on February 2, 2009
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Read about my vision for the future of open public debates. Here I lay out some ground principles of how debates should be organized to include a wider specter of attendees. I give examples on services and software you can use today to improve how You organize debates...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 30, 2009
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve said that design is half the solution when you’re building software. The same can be said to sound and music in a Hollywood movie: The experience of the sound is essential for a good experience. It's important that the software industry takes charge and improves software design. Read on to learn more...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 15, 2009
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Learn how you can make your own digital thermometer using cheap hardware and simple programming technics. Connect this to your computer at home or office and you can start logging how your temperature changes throughout a day...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 13, 2009
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Microsoft just launched a new technology beta called Microsoft Tag. This is a technology that is valueable to publishers of books, DVDs and other physical objects. It's also something that can be used in advertisments of various sort. I have doubt on the importance of this technology and I'm unsure if it will grow and achive the marketshare it needs to be the future of mobile tagging. Alternatives have existed for many years already...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 5, 2009
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Looking into the future and trying to come up with clues to what will happen, is something a lot of us wish we could do properly. Yet, it's probably one of the hardest thing to do. We thought it was easy a hundred years ago, and if we compare the first tens years in 1900 and the ten years between 2000 and 2010, you'll quickly realize that there is nothing quite like it...
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- Posted by sondreb on December 19, 2008
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Microsoft is getting closer to the final release of Windows Live Essentials 2009 and here are my discoveries from the release candidate that was recently made available. If you don’t care about reading my review, go over to Live and download WLE2009 at http://download.live.com/ Introduction I hav...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 23, 2008
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Abstract: Get a quick introduction on how you can start interacting with the Live Framework APIs using the SDK made available on the Microsoft Connect site. Note: You need access to the Microsoft Connect program to download the Live Framework SDK that will allow you to interact with the Live Framew...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 17, 2008
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Abstract: Learn how to use Windows Live Mesh to carry your Flickr photos with you on your Windows Mobile phone. For years I’ve relied on Flickr as my service for hosting photos that I’m willing to share with friends and others. Yet there has never been a good way of downloading all the Flickr photo...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 5, 2008
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As of late Microsoft have started a new path in their design and user experiences (UX). This is starting to become evident in their Windows Live Essentials package, Windows 7 and their websites. Why is this so important that I’m writing a blog post on the subject? Let me start with some background o...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 4, 2008
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Gøran Hansen tagged me once more, this time he want us to blog about our customization of Visual Studio IDE and third party tools we use in our daily jobs as software developers. To be honest, I rarely customize anything. I rely on few (if any) third party tools within the IDE and just a handful o...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 23, 2008
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In good spirit of the old and warm memories of Uncle Traveling Mack, I decided to write a post on how “Geek of the Year” packs his bag when he’s going to a conference. This time it’s the Professional Developer Conference (PDC08) in Los Angeles, USA. For once I decided to start packing a few days a...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 3, 2008
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Ever since I first read about Microsoft Research’s MyLifeBits project I’ve wanted to have my mobile phone continuously capture photos throughout the day wherever I’m going. The following post will describe how you can make a project that will allow you to save photos at a timed interval to a memory ...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 2, 2008
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Here2 follow a very quick introduction on how to get started with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and Lego Mindstorms NXT. If you have attended one of my presentations on robotics or read my presentation, this is a good guide on getting started on your own. This is the quick and dirty guide to ...
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