What will the new year bring to us? Fact is that we already have the Visual Studio release of 2008 including .Net 3.5. This big improved development environment is a guarantee that 2008 will bring a lot of happy coding experiencing some new language improvements like Linq and improved WPF. Be carefully if you intend to do some fireworks, sow you don't ......

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I think, most of us who have the gift to own a creative mind, can agree with me that time is like an enemy. While wishing to get all those things done that run around through your head, again and again, with the realistic knowledge back in your mind, that it's never could be possible, seems the 24 hours in a day too less sometimes. Love it and hate ......

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Do you recognize the picture below as your mp3 music library? Then read on and download for free! (picture 1. Before) I've made a small tool that can help you organise your mp3 files just like you want. MapMP3 creates a folder tree like artist - album -title.mp3 for every mp3 file in the folder where it is executing. In first case the tool reads the ......

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Ever wanted to synchronize your outlook with your Google Calendar? The solution is here. I have developed an Outlook add-in that wil synchronize the scheduler of it with Google Calendar and backward. The process takes place in the background every time your Outlook is executing the Send/Receive operation. Setup is easily. After installing the add-in, ......

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A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released Windows Live Writer Beta. This is a tool that can help you maintain your blog(s) on a easily and structured manner. And ofcourse, because I'm one of the biggest tool lovers on this planet, I had to figure out this new tool. My conclussion: This is another tool that has become very favourite to me. Now I can do ......

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Do you recognize it: Every morning that buzz, beep, or maybe a radio that is getting you out of your sweat dreams? Or for some of us it does a try (me included). Near it is just innatural to get waked by sounds, it's not the most pretty manner to get waked too. Because I'm struggling with a wake-up problem for my whole life. Expecially when I'm out ......

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There's allready been a lot written about the Provider Model pattern. But in my opinion this pattern is more powerfull than most people realize. That's my reason to do a contribution on sharing some knowledge about this pattern. The Provider Model pattern was born while Microsoft was developping version 2.0 of the ASP.Net framework (Whidbey). The name ......

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Have you always thought that ict workers are boring people? It's not that bad. An investigation has covered that they are more than average kissing with co-workers and drink alcoholic in time of the boss. Also it seems they regular fall in sleep at work. The stereotype image of an ict worker who has no social skills except with his computer is not true. ......

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tools , reflector , ghostdoc , VS2005 , snippets , software development , wireshark , clr profiler , profiler , ants profiler , fx cop Many times I've been called "The tool-guy" or something like that. That's because people around me know that I love tools, and have a lot of them. And if they don't know it yet, they will know after they come to me with ......

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I found this article on Reuters today. BIG news as they descripe the assumable fact that the planet Mars had oceans once. Duhhh!!! Isn't Mars not just a planet like Earth will be once too? Ofcourse there was was life on Mars and ofcourse there isn't none anymore. It's simply not possible. I wonder all those investigations. Why not study just evolution? ......

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