May 2009 Entries

Working on a MVVM “light” toolkit

As some of you now, I have been spending most of my free time (which is not much these days once I am done with the amazing projects I am working on at IdentityMine, and the time spent with the family) working on a very simple, very light MVVM toolkit. This toolkit will encompass A DLL with classes that make MVVM applications easier to create and “wire”. A “base” ViewModel class that contains utility methods that ViewModels typically need. A command class that can be used in WPF and Silverlight, ...
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HP Touchsmart TX2 keyboard failure (and the cure)

This morning, something weird happened on my new HP Touchsmart TX2 (a multitouch tablet PC). The keyboard just stopped working, including all the buttons around it (such as the volume up, volume mute and volume down buttons). The keys simply didn’t react anymore. To solve the issue, I tried rebooting, and this is when I noticed that the keyboard also didn’t work in the BIOS. For example, I was unable to display the boot menu by pressing the “ESC” key anymore. I then connected an external USB keyboard, ...
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The #techdays presentations screencasts are online (French and German)

And now the German version of the session is online too. Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/sw... Reminder, the French version is at http://www.microsoft.com/sw... The slides are also available at this URL. Have fun ...
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Installing Windows 7 from a USB drive

Yesterday, Windows 7 RC (release candidate) was published on MSDN, so the subscribers are currently downloading it. I have been using Windows 7 since October 2008, when it was pre-released during the PDC conference. Then I moved to the beta when it was released, and have been using it as my main system since then. I almost never had to go back to Vista (which I kept installed on another partition of my main laptop, just in case). By a funny coincidence, though, Win7 beta stopped working for me last ...
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