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TechEd Amsterdam

Monday morning I'm flying to Amsterdam.

Some important links:

• Sessions done by the Thinktecture team
• Spreadsheet containing all sessions and abstracts by Tim Sneath
• INETA organized BOF (Birds of a Feather) Session Schedule by Damir Tomicic
• More information about TechEd: TechEd Bloggers

Christian

Preparation for DEV-404

For my TechEd session DEV-404, Creating a Klingon Culture I've not only prepared by learning the new globalization and localization features of Visual Studio 2005, I've also used two great books from Marc Okrand. Here are the links to Amazon.

Christian

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dotnet.tv - English version!

Ralf Westphal is doing the dotnet.tv series since summer 2003. Now the first English version of dotnet.tv is available!

Read more about dotnet.tv and get a link to the Episode VI on WebServices from Ralfs blog.

Christian

Star Trek Sessions at TechEd 2004 Europe

There are multiple Star Trek sessions at TechEd Europe! Holger Schwichtenberg includes tribbles in  his presentation

• DEV306 - Building Management Solutions with WMI and .NET

My presentation already has Klingons in its title:

• DEV404 - Creating a Klingon Culture - More about Globalization and Localization

Not only Star Trek fans will get a lot out of these sessions ;-)

Christian

History Repeats

With different applications I see similar problems that are repeated year after year.

One example: show up the username either lastname, firstname - or firstname lastname. Changing the application settings only changes the behavior for new users but not for the existing ones.

How many applications did face this problem in their first versions? I've seen several.

Christian

Achim Ruopp - Welcome to blogging!

Achim Ruopp started blogging. I've met Achim at TechEd in San Diego. Achim is a great guy working at Microsoft to deal with internationalization issues, this is also shown with the title of his blog: "Tales from the Crossroads of Internationalization and .NET".

One of his first entries lists all Internationalization Sessions at TechEd 2004 Europe.

Achim, it's great to see you blogging :-)
Subscribed.

Christian

Methodology: Process Model of Microsoft CRM

Microsoft CRM uses its own process model for the implementation of CRM solutions. This model is only slightly different to MSF and should be (and I expect it will be) adapted to MSF.

The phases of the Microsoft CRM process model:

1. Sales Stage
2. Envisioning
3. Planning
4. Development
5. Deployment
6. Post-Deployment

Christian

Generics and CLS Compliance

Kevin Dente has a problem with generics as not being CLS compliant. With Longhorn generics will be CLS compliant.

In the meantime with CLS compliant assemblies this can be done:

• using generics within the classes is not a problem
• having generic classes as arguments of public/protected methods, both a generic and an alternate version can be supplied. The generic version is marked with the attribute [CLSCompliant(false)], while the alternate version is CLS compliant.

With the Longhorn timeframe the non-generic version can be marked obsolete.

Christian

Hotel in Munich

"....furniture in the style of Louis XVI, together with the newest communication technology...."

Translation: analog line for dial in

Christian

DEV499: Building Extensible and Globalized Windows Forms Applications Using Attributes, Reflection, Code Generation and a bunch of Winforms Tips and Tricks

Jeroen van den Bos has a problem with simultanous TechEd sessions and proposes a new session:

DEV499: Building Extensible and Globalized Windows Forms Applications Using Attributes, Reflection, Code Generation and a bunch of Winforms Tips and Tricks

However, this session needs 3 time slots. ;-)

I prefer DEV404 - "Creating a Klingon Culture - More about Globalization and Resource Management". I will be there :-)

Christian