Daniel’s Model-based Engineering Insights

playing with Windows Phone 7

Just playing with Silverlight & Windows Phone 7. Guess, the result is quite okay so far. For what you can see, I used 2 components: - PanoramaView Control: look&feel like known from the MS presentations - AnimateOrientation: does the animation when rotating...

Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta

Since April there is a nice way to port microsoft surface application for the growing number of multitouch screens available with Windows 7. This allows for a cool expierence on multitouch windows 7 – with the proven Development tools from the Microsoft Surface Tool...

Visual Studio 2010 mysteries

Wednesday I installed Visual Studio 2010 Premium, and played a while with the WPF-based editor. Annoying  thing: I could not select any of the controls on a WPF-Application-Form. Whenever I clicked on the TextBox, the Designer added a Border-Control. Then I...

Offline Manual

On one of my Software and Gadget sites (Gizmodo) I found an neat way to guide even the elderly easy through the first steps with their new gadget. Back to Basics

Getting your Types

In one of our projects we had a little performance problem, so we researched some stuff to get things faster. Problem: We have a XML File with a List<Base> and we wanted to generate Enterprise Architect Elements out of them. So we needed to check if the Base...

Enterprise Architect Launcher

There's a new tool around called eaLauncher. Once registered, EA Project files (*.eap) open with this application. It lets you enable/disable EA-Plugins before the Application starts. Installation is quite simple: run the exe from anywhere on your computer and click...

XmlSerializer: Deserialize Perfomance Issue

Deserializing large xml files (>500kb) can be quite slow, because it produces a lot of harddrive IO operations. There is a simple  trick to avoid this using a memory stream: UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding(); XmlSerializer serializer = new...

Windows Phone 7 – comeback of transflective TFT

Up to now I was unexcited about Windows Phone 7 – yet today I found something interesting.  On Pdamaster it looks like a comeback of the transflective TFT’s on some of the “first wave” Windows Phone 7 devices. I highly appreciate that – sunlight readability...

Neues LieberLieber Sujet !

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Neue Version vom Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008

Die neue Version vom Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 vereint alle Editionen (Express, Standard und Academic) der Version R2. Das wichtigste dabei ist, dass diese Version jetzt für alle kostenlos zur Verfügung steht. Dazu zählen auch die Microsoft CCR und...

eaCommand GUI

According to our solution for documentation of software products, LieberLieber coded a GUI for easy use of the freeware tool eaCommand. With this GUI you can easily generate the commands needed in commandLine. It also handles dependencies of the possible parameters...

.NET Micro Framework 4.1 Beta

Ab sofort steht die Version 4.1 Beta des .NET Micro Frameworks auf http://connect.microsoft.com zur Verfügung. Das ist das erste Open Source Release mit Community Beiträgen. Alle Neuerungen sind im .NET Micro Framework Team Blog nachzulesen. Die interresantesten...

LieberLieber AMUSE 1.1.36 Download

Yesterday we released Version 1.1.36 of our UML Simulation and Execution Tool. You can download all the Materials now from lieberlieber.com. Simply navigate to the AMUSE Product Website. After downloading the Install Package and Documents don’t forget to request you...