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One of the many benifits as an Infragistics MVP is that you get quite early involved in product development in order to give feedback. This could either be feedback on a new feature, an API change, or a brand new product! Last spring it was time to give feedback again. There was an email on the Infragistics NDA mailing list which announced that work on a new product - Infragistics NetAdvantage for Powershell - had been started. Being an absolute Powershell fan, I felt really excited to offer my help with alpha and beta testing, giving feedback, etc....

(English version below)30 begeisterte Fans des manged Codes fanden gestern Abend Ihren Weg nach Koblenz, um bei unserer .NET User Group Tony Hasselhoff Lombardo, ASP.NET MVP und Lead-Evangelist bei Infragistics, zu hören. Tony erzählte in einem sehr spannenden Vortrag, was mit Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 fernab von sinnfreien animierten Buttons und TextBoxen machen können. Ganz Konkret ging es um Geschäftsapplikationen, mit denen unsere Kunden sogar arbeiten können ;-) Unter anderem Sprach Tony über: Authentifizierung und Authorisierung Das Speichern von Benutzereinstellungen Datenzugriff und -bindung sowie das MVVM Pattern. Entgegen meiner ersten Befürchtung war die Gruppe trotz...

As I’m very interested in new technologies, I recently downloaded – like maybe hundreds of other people – Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Vol 2. My goal was to evaluate Infragistics newest technology. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was dampend a little bit, when I tried to run the sample application “xamFeatureBrowser”. Instead of showing the newest and coolest WPF features, the application crashed and displayed the windows error reporting dialog. Actually, this wasn’t what I really expected :-) My sales contact at Infragistics confirmed, that the sample application shows this quite unexpected behavior on non English...