My Software Cookbook

This blog entry is mainly based on the presentation given by Steven Sanderson on TechDays 2012 called “Building Single Page Apps for desktop, mobile and tablet with ASP.NET MVC 4”. Steven’s talk consisted of a large demo that immediately got me interested and made me want to try it out.... [Read More]

Sharepoint 2003 includes a list template for bug tracking. It provides very basic functionality like keeping bug statuses, description, comments, dates, assignments etc. For every update that is made to a bug report, Sharepoint just adds a new item to the list. It doesn't however include a bug progress report.... [Read More]

I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise Edition on one of my PCs. Eager to get my PC up and running with all the software I daily use, I skipped activation. When I tried to activate Windows a few days later, I was greeted by this error message: [Read More]

I have found several ways of injecting a version number into Wix via TeamBuild, but most of them require way too much work. After a few days of experimenting I ended up with this solution. [Read More]

When trying to figure out how to use some of my MFC controls in a WinForms application, I came across this article by Rama Krishna Vavilala. As his article was targetting the .NET 1.1 framework, I decided to rework it for .NET 2.0. The main difference is the switch from... [Read More]