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RSSVisual Studio 2012
For those who dislike the new Metro Style UI in Visual Studio 2012 because of the bad readability and lack of colors, we have a few tricks available that helps you keep up your good work. For Visual … more
Using Themes in your WPF-Applications
Recently we found a nice project on CodePlex, so called WPF Themes.We thought we should give it a try and see how easy it is to use WPF Themes in our own application. The installation process went … more
Silverlight: MVVM Service Agent with Exceptionhandling
In this small code snippet let us intrduce a pattern that you may use in a MVVM (Model-View-View-Model) class to encapsulate RIA-Service functionality from your MVVM-Class. This makes it testable and … more
Outlook: Loop over Inbox Items
Hello, this is just a quick code snippet. It demonstrates how to quickly iterate over all Items in the InboxFolder.There are several ways how you can access the Data within Outlook and it depends on … more
Source code management system Mecurial
There is a strong commitment for the Mercurial source code management system out in the fields… As we are not software developers since one day, we have seen a lot of stuff and tools out there and … more
PowerPoint: DrawLine
We came across the question how invoke the command to draw a simple line in PowerPoint.Starting from PowerPoint 2007 where the Ribbon influences the Userinterface in Office, normally you would do it … more
Catel MVVM: How to create a WPF fullscreen Application
Today we came across a problem while creating a new Application using the Catel-Framework. The Application is a Device-Application that should run standalone without a Windows user interface.A Window … more
How to integrate ReCaptcha in Orchard
Recently we had the problem getting lots of spam by our new website that we rebuilt using the Orchard-Framework.So we had to find a way to fight against Spam-bots. First we tried the Orchard.Captcha … more
Outlook: Programmatically select a custom Form Region
Hello, in this Article let me show you how to create a Custom Form Region, a Ribbon button and displaying this Form when you click on it.For this demo we are extending the standard Outlook Contact … more
Outlook: Programmatically select a Folder
The Microsoft Object Model has a method that allows you to select a folder inside the Outlook data structure."PickFolder" is the name of it and it is accessible via the NameSpace Object, that means … more