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All posts published in January 2007

Blog of latest news, updates, and stories for developers

[de] Premiere im Internet: ZDF Folgen zuerst im Netz (s. Windows Vista Media Center)

Krimiserie schon einen Tag vor TV-Ausstrahlung bei zdf.de

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, January 30, 2007


Windows Vista Updates: Language Packs and Ultimate Extras

During the Windows Vista event in New York I noticed the new updates including some language packs:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 29, 2007


[de] Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group am 22.02.2007

Die Ingolstädter .NET Developers Group [1] ist eine unabhängige Gemeinschaft für Interessierte der Microsoft .NET Technologie aus dem Großraum Ingolstadt. Sie besteht aus professionellen Entwicklern, Hobbyentwicklern, Akademikern und Studenten, die Ihre Erfahrung mit anderen teilen möchten.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 29, 2007


I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me

I've been tagged by Albert [1], so here are 5 things to share about me:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Saturday, January 27, 2007


The WPF/E Gear Keeps Turning

As you may have read on my blog I have added an animation to the gear example [1] from Mike Harsh. Now, the gear community is here! Read Bryant Likes's Blog [2] post about the gears:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, January 26, 2007


Are we ready for AJAX?

I had a watch today on the webcast How Hackers Reverse Engineer and Exploit an Ajax Application [1]. There wasn't any new security issue as we already should know as AJAX or web application developers. Samples did show how to hack the AutoComplete.asmx web service (using ASP.NET AJAX [2]) which was used on a demo web application using SQL Injection.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, January 25, 2007


Transforms, Opacity Masks and Animation to Create an Animated Reflection in WPF/E

I read a great artice about Use Transforms and Opacity Masks to Create a Reflection in WPF/E [1] and tried to add some animation for the gear image. WPF/E is really easy, and you don't need any JavaScript experience to do all this stuff, it is all WPF/E content only.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 24, 2007


How to surf the Internet more safely

In the past you may have heared about more and more security bugs on well-known web sites you use maybe more often a day. Below there are some tips you should have in mind when browsing:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, January 16, 2007


Thumboo moved...!

Today my snapshot service Thumboo [1] has moved to Sonu Kapoor (owner of DotNetSlackers [2]). Sonu will add much more features and make it a really nice site for the community. If you are still interessted in the original source code write me a message and I will send you the C# source code.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, January 11, 2007


How do I hack a web site?

On next Tuesday I will talk at the .NET User Group in Munich / Germany [1] about following topics:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 10, 2007


DotNetPro’s Search Engine Spam

My friend Philipp Lenssen [1] wrotes some days ago about the German magazine DotNetPro which offers different html output when Google's crawler is fetching the site.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 10, 2007


Performance Research: Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!

Tenni Theurer posted a new blog entry on the YUIBlog [1] about performance research with browser cache usage [2].

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, January 5, 2007


Pending Members - Google Groups XSS Bug [Part 2]

Some weeks ago I wrote about a Google groups bug [1] where it was possible to get all the mail adresses from subscribed members for a Google group. I have already reported this bug [2] to Google, but there is nobody interessted in fixing it. Last evening I wrote a small script that will show you how dangerous this bug is.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, January 3, 2007


Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award 2007

All the things around Christmas and New Year's Eve are left, now, and starting this morning reading my mails I got a very surprising mail from Microsoft:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, January 1, 2007