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April 30, 2007 • 3:14 am 0

How to: Browse a storage card on Windows Mobile using System.IO classes

Since the root of any storage card is represented as a directory inside of the root of the device, you can iterate all directories inside the root folder (“/”) and check their attributes to see if they comply to be a storage card. use the following code to look for a storage card:

 Public Function GetStorageCard() As DirectoryInfo
        Dim deviceRoot As New DirectoryInfo("/")
        For Each dir As DirectoryInfo In deviceRoot.GetDirectories()
            If dir.Attributes = FileAttributes.Directory AndAlso _
            dir.Attributes = FileAttributes.Temporary Then
                Return dir
            End If
        Next
 End Function

Enjoy !

Filed under: General

April 26, 2007 • 3:16 am 0

New section: “Projects”

I’ve added a new section called “Projects” to the blog. Here you will find all sorts of mostly small projects that kept me busy in my free time. Comming soon will be the WM 6.0 FileBrowser control and other stuff as well.

So check it out later on!

Filed under: General

April 20, 2007 • 12:16 am 0

Visual Studio Orcas Beta available !!!

I saw the notice on Informationweek that Microsoft released a beta of the VS.net Orcas.

Find out more here.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, Asp.net, Asp.net 2.0, Asp.net Ajax, General, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas"

April 19, 2007 • 3:15 am 0

Developer Highway Code

While browsing my saved feeds I found the following free ebook that you can download from msdn. I think I will read this one since we are currently doing something similar.

Developer Highway Code

To build software that meets your security objectives, you must integrate security activities into your software development lifecycle. This handbook captures and summarises the key security engineering activities that should be an integral part of your software development processes.

These security engineering activities have been developed by Microsoft patterns & practices to build on, refine and extend core lifecycle activities with a set of security-specific activities. These include identifying security objectives, applying design guidelines for security, threat modelling, security architecture and design reviews, security code reviews and security deployment reviews.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0

• 1:45 am 0

Wow that’s fast!!!

I was reading an invitation for some product showcases and one of them is the Riso HC 5500 color printer. Didn’t find a price yet.

It prints 120 pages a minute in full color !!!!!

Steeve’s BlendPanel

A colleague of mine wrote a small, but very nice component called “BlendPanel” I know there are already versions, but anyways it’s a very nice component.I’ve added it as an attachment to this post, as well as a test project that you can use to play a bit with it. So thanks to Steeve for making it available to the public.

Download: BlendPanel Source & Test code

Filed under: .net 2.0, Visual Studio .Net 2005

April 17, 2007 • 11:33 pm 1

HP Compaq nx7400 quirks

I was trying to install windows 2003 on my portable after I uninstalled vista from it. When I ran setup it didn’t find any harddisks. Not kowing that this portable has got a SATA Hd I tried dozens of tricks to get the thing going, but none were succesful. Finally a couple of hours later I read on a forum that the little bastard has got a bios setting called SATA Native Mode and that I should set that to disabled. When I did this everyhting was fine and I could install my other OS.

Filed under: General

• 10:16 pm 0

How to validate someone’s microsoft certification?

Well you can ask that person to share it’s transcript. This can be done by logging into the Mcp website and there select the option transcript sharing code from the menu View My in the left sidebar. He/she will have to setup a password and then submit. A transcript ID will be generated and a link will be given. Now you are ready to share your transcript.

You can verify my mcts certificate at: https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx

my transscript ID = 756698 and my password = 18101982

Filed under: MCP

• 12:21 am 0

Giveaway of the day

On this site they give away a software that normally isn’t free. In general it are not that interesting titles, but now and then it’s something nice to have.

Anyways I’ve placed their “banner” on my blog you can find it when you scroll down underneath the link(s) section.

Giveaway of the Day

Filed under: General

April 16, 2007 • 11:58 pm 0

And these people represent you…

Last friday we had an unannounced strike at our national airport. Many reactions came to this strike but 1 in particular was rather shortminded and just plain stupid. I believe it was the Society of Flemisch Traveling Agencies (VVR) that said the following: “In the US the strikers would have been fired, in Russia they would disappear in working camps and in China they would be quietly executed.” Come on What kind of message are you sending when you make statements as these in the press??? I really was perplexed!

Filed under: General