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WPBlogger now available in the Marketplace for free

My Google Blogger client for the Windows Phone 7 has been approved is available in the Marketplace. It’s a free application, ad supported, that allows you to create simple blog posts for all your Blogger blogs. In the future more … Continue reading

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no web.config transformation in local Azure

If I’m not mistaken this happened after the Azure SDK 1.3 update. Web.config transformation didn’t when running your website in the local Development Fabric/Compute Emulator. Running your website outside of Azure or publishing to Azure still executed the config trasformation. … Continue reading

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Who’s owing wp7 app available

Who’s owing is now available for Windows Phone 7, get it from the Marketplace. Do you have any friends or colleagues that owe you anything or are you the one always forgetting what you owe to others? With “Who’s owing” … Continue reading

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SOASchool Certification, Exam Information

Here you have some basic information about the different exams of SOASchool certification: S90.01: 50 questions, 82% pass grade, 1 hour S90.02: 50 questions, 78% pass grade, 1 hour S90.03: 50 questions, 80% pass grade, 1 hour S90.04: 50 questions, … Continue reading

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Officialy a Certified SOA Consultant

SOA Systems has processed my last exam and now I’m officially a Certified SOA Consultant, and here’s the proof: In December I’ll probably start the SOA Architect track, just 2 more exams (S90.08 and S90.09). I’ll give more information on … Continue reading

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Passed exam S90.05: SOA Technology Lab

So I finally finished my Certified SOA Consultant certification. This last exam is all about XML, XSD, WSDL and XML namespaces. The exam is not very difficult but you have to pay attention to some details (namespaces!!). The exam style … Continue reading

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ListBox ItemTemplate Stretching

Here’s a simple solution to get the contents of your ListBox ItemTemplate to stretch over the full width of the ListBox. Add this to the declaration of your ListBox: <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType=”ListBoxItem”> <Setter Property=”HorizontalContentAlignment” Value=”Stretch”></Setter> </Style> </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>

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WP7 frameworks

Here’s a list of some interesting WP7 frameworks to keep an eye on. If you know other frameworks please add the to the list. Picker Box http://blogs.msdn.com/b/priozersk/archive/2010/09/14/update-to-the-picker-box-control.aspx http://msaf.codeplex.com/ Extensible Web Analytics Framework for Microsoft Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone 7 … Continue reading

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Passed exam S90.04: SOA Project Delivery & Methodology

This exam doesn’t differ a lot from the others, just the passmark is much lower, 68%. Concerning the content of the exam, most questions concerned service analysis, service modeling and the involvement of the different SOA roles in the different … Continue reading

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Moved to wordpress.com

So I moved my blog to wordpress.com, most things should work as I mapped my domain to my new wordpress blog. There is still some work to do (theme, rss…) but the most important thing, my posts, are available.

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