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Article how to work with RDS (Radio data system) in C#

wseidl — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:46:27 +0000

http://dedjo.blogspot.com/2008/12/reading-and-decoding-rds-radio-data.html

Zehn Verfahren zum effektiven Testen von Benutzeroberflächen

Alexander Bremora — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:53:35 +0000

Kurze und allgemeine Erklärungen zum Thema “Testen”. Dieser Artikel beschränkt sich nicht nur auf das Testen von Benutzeroberflächen, sondern geht auch auf grundlegende Methoden ein. Als Entwicklungsumgebung wird auf Java und Eclipse verwiesen, die Methoden bleiben jedoch universell.

Benutzeroberflächen frühzeitig ausgiebig zu testen zahlt sich im weiteren Verlauf von Projekten aus. Neben Kosteneinsparungen bei der Wartung tragen solche Tests zu einer benutzerfreundlichen Anwendung bei, die effektiv ist und deren Verwendung keine unliebsamen Überraschungen bereithält.

Frühzeitig und häufig testen
Kerndomäne und Plattformdetails voneinander isolieren
Interaktion von Modell und Framework testen
Härtetests planen
Tests robust gestalten
Flexibel zu wartende Tests erstellen
Helper als Testsprache behandeln
Tests wiederholbar machen
Verantwortung für Qualität übernehmen
Der Qualitätssicherung die Arbeit erleichtern

Outlook Social Connector

nosecam — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:30:22 +0000

Quite interesting how Outlook invests into connectivity with social networks. Already available is a connector for LinkedIn, connectors for MySpace and Facebook are announced. All the information from your social networks is automatically synchronized and displayed directly in outlook. For your contacts, your local address store is automatically up to date all the time, e.g. if your contacts change eMail address.

Connect to your LinkedIn account to view your colleagues’ status updates and photos next to an e-mail message they sent you.
Your colleagues’ latest contact information from LinkedIn automatically updates his or her Outlook contact. Whenever someone changes a phone number, e-mail address, or other contact details, it’s automatically updated in Outlook — you are always up to date.
Synchronize your mobile phone with Outlook to stay up-to-date — you don’t have to worry about keeping track of new phone numbers and contact info — contacts’ information from the Web is synchronized to your mobile phone.
Grow your professional network directly from within your Inbox — add colleagues with one click.

You are able to stay connected to your network without leaving the Outlook Inbox.

Minimize Outlook Window to Windows System Tray

Alexander Bremora — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:19:32 +0000

Do not waste any space with a minimized window in the taskbar.

Therefore dispel it to the system tray:

Right click to Outlook icon in the system tray
Select “Hide When Minimized” (in german: “Ausblenden, wenn minimiert”)

Working with AVI Files

Rübezahl — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:07:06 +0000

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article840.asp

Code Review Link

crodemeyer — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:24:56 +0000

http://5whys.com/blog/step-4-start-doing-code-reviews-seriously.html

UI Design Patterns

crodemeyer — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:45:24 +0000

If you are interested in a rich and modern user experience you should have a look at Quince which is a quite impressive UI pattern site (implemented in Silverlight). For every pattern there are one or more examples from real applications and a good rationale. If you are doing user interfaces, browse this site once a week.

Common problems when accessing services from a Silverlight client

crodemeyer — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:07:30 +0000

Developers who are trying to access WCF services (or other services) from Silverlight for the first time will most probably into these issues:

Exceptions in the service (SOAP Faults) are not delivered to the silverlight client
Cross domain issues: A silverlight app can access only services that are located below the same domain the .xap file was downloaded from.

The following msdn articles give some insight in this problem area and how you can solve these issues.

Localisation

nosecam — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:28:13 +0000

Nice reference page from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/search.mspx

VS2010 and .NET 4.0 released

crodemeyer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:21:49 +0000

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2010/04/12/ship-it-visual-studio-2010-net-framework-4-now-available.aspx