Although my OS is english (!) version, running the english (!) version of Office, I get an error when opening an Excel workbook via COM. The error message doesn’t help locating the real problem:
Because my locals are german, and the Office Multilanguage Pack is not installed, Excel tries to locate the german language pack and [...]

Hier eine Kurzzusammenfassung der aus meiner Sicht wichtigsten Neuerungen in .Net 4.0 bezüglich COM:
1) COM (interops)
Endlich wird es möglich sein, eine interop für z.B. Excel 2003 einzubinden, und das Programm auch für Office 2007 laufen zu lassen. Bislang mußte auf Fremdkomponenten zurückgegriffen werden, oder LateBinding benutzt werden. Bei längeren Codes bricht man sich dabei schon [...]

Today I run into a strange error: In an .NET Windows Form I’m referencing a ConnectionString from Application Settings.
At 12:00 it worked.
Changed a line of code; recompiled; started over at 12:01.
The app came up with an error: “Unrecognized configuration settings UserSettings“, the debugger pointed me to the settings file.
Tried a lot. Searched the internet. Found [...]

As a .NET Developer:
Ever tried to find out more information about your computer’s system?
Ever needed a list of connected USB-Devices, available Serial Ports or Printers?
Ever heard of WMI?
Did you know, it’s also supported by Mono?
There’s a free tool from Microsoft, which is of great help navigating through namespaces, classes and their properties called “WMI Code [...]

Ich arbeite gerade an einem Plugin für Enterprise Architect.
Mit Visual Studio 2008 und Vista Ultimate x64 lief alles reibungslos.
Gestern habe ich mir Win7  Ultimate x64 installiert, nun kam folgende Fehlermeldung:
“Microsoft (R) Visual Studio registry capture utility has stopped working”
Nach kurzer Recherche fand ich diesen Workaround.
1. Locate regcap.exe here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\Deployment
 (Pfad für x64 [...]

Jump List: contains recently used files, if the app has a associated file type (e.g. Notepad)

Thumbnail Previews: thumbnails of running apps; can be extended by e.g. buttons

The new Taskbar may also be extended by Tasks. In former times, these commands where added as context-menu to the notifyicon in system tray.
The best thing: you can use [...]

Yesterday night I was pretty excited to see that Spin the Bottle was downloaded 10001 time since the launch of Marketplace in October 2009.

It all started with a joke on Teched EMEA 2008 in Barcelona. By the end of the evening, Rizo got so enthusiastic about it that he stayed awake and delivered the first [...]