Several times I got the question waht the vshost.exe is in Visual Studio Express Editions [1]. If you are familiar with Visual Studio the answer is easy: It is called hosting process . And is decribed in [2]:

"The hosting process is a feature in Visual Studio 2005 that improves debugging performance, enables partial trust debugging, and enables design time expression evaluation. The hosting process files contain vshost in the file name and are placed in the output folder of your project."

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
[2] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185331.aspx

Having trouble to create a A1 poster out of a PowerPoint Slide? Is the bottom of the poster messed up? Mirko [1] got the solution: Actually it does not matter what page size you choose for the PowerPoint slide. Print first a A4 (or maybe Letter) PDF. This usually works quiet fine. Then open the A4 PDF and re-print it to A1. In many cases this shall help.

[1] http://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/ks/abteilung/mitarbeiter/mirko.knoll/en

End Users Shaping Effective Software [1].

[1] http://eusesconsortium.org/index.php/

Finally I can say it, Tandy Trower and his team have announced the Microsoft Robotic Studio [1]. Last time I have seen it in early spring, some parts of the tool have been already very impressing. Finally, I am looking forward for the final release.

Beside this the Robot magazine gives a first impression of the Robotics Studio [2] and some first screenshots of the upcoming Simulator [3]. Furthermore the Carnegie Mellon University starts a new program [4] supported by the Robotics Group from Redmond. Meanwhile, there is also a Channel 9 video of almost one hour [5] available.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/
[2] http://www.botmag.com/issue3/microsoft_technical_preview_1.shtml
[3] http://www.botmag.com/issue3/microsoft_technical_preview_2.shtml
[4] http://www.cir.ri.cmu.edu/
[5] http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=206574

Havin some trouble in remebering regualr expressions, I use the MSDN site [1] to get the basics to create them.

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs.aspx

EUD-NET [1].

[1] http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/eud-net.htm

Learn Python in 10 minutes [1]. Exactly what i was looking for. 

[1] http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python

While checking some links I have bookmarked before, I found this one [1] with great Star Trek artwork of bridges from Star Trek vessels.

[1] http://www.lcars.org.uk/bridge.htm

Today I finished my first fischertechnik [1] article for the Coding4Fun website [2]. I guess it will take some days until the text is read, processed and published. I also think already about a follow up article of some more sophisticated models.

[1] http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/index.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/

While I was working with Web Services in one of my projects, I got some compiler errors: The type of namespace foobar could not be found. Actually I checked the line and it looked as the namespace (a Web reference) was not found - but in the Solution Explorer everything looked fine. If you click the namespace identifier which seems to be wrong, a smart tag appears which allows you to extend the namespace to it's full identifier. And there you can see, why the compiler finds an error.

Cool feature if you know that it is there.