Erik Lenaerts

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Microsoft : from idea to release
Ever wondered where microsoft stores its code while it goes from idea to release stages? Have a look at this diagram:
Posted: Aug 29 2008, 01:37 PM by ErikL | with no comments
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Visual Studio discovery does not detect my WCF Service
Recently I needed to create a windows service application for one of my customers and I decided to use WCF for both incomming as outgoing communication mechanism. The problem I had was that I could not discover any WCF services in my solution. Only WCF...
Unreachable Url's in google
Since a while we encounter more and more problems for one of the websites I'm working on ( www.morres.com ). Somewhere in the first Quarter of 2007, the site dissapeared from the radar of Google entirely. Question is, what wen't wrong? We spent...
Don't register your Http Response Filter too soon
I'm working on a Translation system for one of my customers and I used a Http response Filter . The filter basically looks for certain patterns and replaces these with new values. This way we translate some content of the pages. The filter is registered...
ASP.Net Thickbox control
On a regular basis we needed the thickbox functionalities on our ASP.Net web sites. I'm a fan of the thickbox implementation from Codey Lindley . We wanted to make this functionality easier to consume in ASP.Net so we decided to package this functionality...
DateTime and Number format overview
Very handy if you always need to start the VS Help to lookup on those date or number formats.... http://john-sheehan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/msnet-formatting-strings.pdf
Sysinternals video's
Although sysinternal tools are promoted via the Microsoft TechNet site targetted towards IT professionals, these tools are a must have for every serious developer. Via these tools you can learn about your processes, memory, filesystem, registry and many...
Posted: May 31 2007, 12:53 AM by ErikL | with no comments
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Integrate your Framework documentation into Visual Studio Help
At the moment I'm working on a small, but usefull, .NET framework for one of my customers. The purpose of this framework is build around Logging, Configuration, etc. The customer has a team of .Net Developers that will be using this framework with...
Use masterpages in Web Sites and Web Application Projects
Since Visual Studio SP1, you have the option to choose between 2 approaches when building websites ASP.NET Web Site ASP.NET Web Application The ASP.NET Web Application has been added in SP1 (actually you could download it seperately already before SP1...
Learn Microsoft Office new User Interface
Microsoft released some nice tools to improve the learning curve in a transition between Office 2003 to office 2007. The tool is actually a flash application where you first select the action in a Word 2003 environment and then it shows where to find...
Uploading a document to a SharePoint Document Library
After some hours browsing the web I found several techniques to upload a document to a SharePoint Document Library. Using a Network share This option is really simple but mapping a network share on every client PC is perhaps not an option. However, no...
Posted: Jan 08 2007, 08:46 AM by ErikL | with no comments
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