Alexander's Embedded Techwire: Computer und Internet

Say "Hello!" to Windows Server 2008 - NIK Event 15.07.2008

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:54:09 GMT

Windows Server 2008 will be complete with the final release of the Hypervisor very soon. Therefore, it is time to have closer look at it as well as get to know all the cool new features. Join some well respectet experts from Microsoft, experienced Microsoft partners and myself on July, 15th 2008 at the Nuremberg Initiative for Communication (NIK) event "Windows Server 2008 inside". Get a full day of high quality and well-targeted information You will not find anywhere else.

Would be my pleasure to see You there! BTW., I will be talking on the powers of power shell, whhich might even be intereting to non server guys.

Alexander

Great books

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:26:56 GMT

Here are some great books on .NET (C#) as well as the .Net Micro Framework I just came across. One is Professional C# 2005 by Christian Nagel a true compendium, which nevertheless stays undertandable and reader-friendly.

The other one is Expert .NET Micro Framework by Jens Kühner. It gives a good overview on quite a few of the availble MF dev boards as well as a good entry into the world of .NET on micro controllers.

On the way to Orlando - meet me at TechED blogger lounge

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:56:10 GMT

I am writing this sitting at Munich airport waiting for the plane to Orlando.

Weather is getting colder again over here, therefore a little tropic Florida breeze is always welcome.

I will be at the Blogger Lounge set up by the TechEd Team next to the TechEd Online Stage tomorrow from 2-3 pm.

If You are town, please drop by for a nice chat and a coffee!

Alexander

VISTA Revisited Nuremberg - 28.02.2008

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:10:20 GMT

One year ago we did a great event in Nuremberg, Ansbach and Munich just right for the arrival of Windows VISTA. Rooms in all three cities were packed and expectations have been quite high.
After one year being in the market people's opinions are mixed on VISTA. Of course, there were problems with drivers, the new security and so on, as with every new major OS release . On the other side, some people are really fond of the new UI as well as programming models and would never want to go back to XP.
We think, that this is a great opportunity to bring everybody together again, exchange experiences and give direct feedback to high class Microsoft speakers, who are going to join us for the event.
In addition, this is also a great chance to get first hand information on the further Windows roadmap regarding VISTA SP1 and beyond.

I will be doing a session on the new VISTA Preinstallation Environment (WinPE 2.0), that will be a workshop with very little Powerpoint slides and a lot of demos.
It would be great to see You there.

We start in Nuremberg on the 28th of February 2008 and will also have one event in Munich (date to be announced).

Please register here: http://www.nik-nbg.de/asp/Veranstaltungen.asp?

Alexander

Vista Driver for Laptops

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:16:42 GMT

I was struggling with my graphics driver NVIDIA Geforce Go 7400 for VISTA quite some time. This site absolutely saved my life:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

Now I can use multiple monitors without re-arranging them after logging off or locking my system.

What a gas!

Alexander

It is VISTA time again!

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:12:35 GMT

The ITK-Forum at University of applied sciences in Ansbach, Germany will be holding a Vista event in cooperation with the NIK under the title "Vista - was bringt's?" (translation: Vista - does it deliver?) on Thursday April, 19th next week.

I do have the pleasure to join two very experienced colleagues from Microsoft and conplement AG, Michael Korp and Thomas Hemmer, as a speaker. My topic will be using Vista as an innovation platform for new markets: We are living right in the middle of the digital decade, so why not jump the bandwaggon and use the new OS for Your own ideas and strategies?
I think there is a lot of infratstructure and technology under the hood in Vista that is not so obvious at the first glance, but able to provide tremendous benefit, if used correctly.

Interested?

Please join us next week. Would be a pleasure!

Alexander

Strange bug in VISTA Explorer multi-select

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:27:02 GMT

Today I have encountered a strange bug in VISTA Explorer:

Out of a sudden I was not able to multi-select files any more. I tried to neglect it but after a while, this was really driving me nuts.

A system is nearly unusable without this simple feature!

I tried reboots, uninstalled software I had installed before, but nothing helped.

Finally I decided to reset my folder settings (Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View -> Reset Folders) and voilà after closing (do not forget to do this) the explorer window and re-opening it, the multi-select feature was there again.

So do not waste Your time in uninstalling or something else!

Alexander

VISTA Events in Nürnberg und München ausgebucht.

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:31:54 GMT

Ich hoffe wir sehen uns morgen, falls Ihr in der Nähe wohnt. Für Kurzentschlossenen könnte es schwierig werden, da meines Wissens beide Veranstaltungen ausgebucht sind.

Be there or be square! :-)

Alexander

Windows Vista Inside - Vorträge 17./18.10.06 Nürnberg / München

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:40:09 GMT

Was bringt Windows Vista? Ist das neue Microsoft Betriebssystem der große Wurf?

Am 17. Oktober in Nürnberg im Rahmen der Nürnberger Initiative für Kommunikation und am 18. Oktober in München bei der TRIA IT-solutions Ag kann man sich selbst einen ersten Überblick verschaffen.

Hochkarätige Sprecher von Microsoft und erfahrenen Partnern, die alle selbst viel in Projekten stecken, verschaffen einem die Möglichkeit das neue Betriebssystem einem Reality-Check zu unterziehen.

Wir würden uns sehr über viele interessierte und kritische Teilnehmer freuen.

Ich selbst werde die Themen Deployment und Vista als Innovationsplattform abdecken.

Na dann, bis zu einem der Events!

Alexander

Running FBA on this BLOG

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:39:01 GMT

Hello everybody out there,

today I am starting this blog as part of my community efforts as Microsoft Regional Director for Germany around the Microsoft embedded and .NET development technologies.

I do hope that this blog will become a valuable source of information for You developers out there and I do invite You all to participate actively in discussions, we may run into.

So, like XP embedded after running First Boot Agent - FBA (the process that assembles the XP embedded operating system), this blog is now online and ready for the things to come.

Alexander