Food for hungry IT-people

For 3 years I'm working for Avanade, the joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Since 2004 we're located in the Netherlands and we have managed to grow from 17 to 100 Microsoft professionals. Now I ask you to help us grow even further!Worldwide we are an organization of more then 5000 professionals and we're looking for more people who are willing to be part of the worlds largest IT

http://www.ronaldlemmen.com

Now even easier to remember! This blog is accessible from the url: http://www.ronaldlemmen.comStill running on blogger's engine, but since I received my first ad's paycheck I'm able to serve you even better.Ronald

The best solution?

Have you ever wondered what the best solution is? For example, what if somebody asks you 'What is the correct regex pattern that would match to any 3 digits from 0-9 but not match if those three digits are all zeros, e.g. 123 is a match but 000 is not a match?'So what is the best solution? Is it: ([1-9]\d\d|\d[1-9]\d|\d\d[1-9])This still would allow a string like 1234 to be correct.Or this one:^(

Showing a sorted list of the entities

When you want to show a list of entities, then you'd need the MetadataService. The code is not that hard to fetch a list of these entities. There's even an example in the SDK. The code to get all entities including custom entities would be:MetadataService.MetadataService service = new MetadataService.MetadataService();service.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;Metadata md

You've been tagged!

Aargh!I've been tagged two times by now. Once by Nigel van Houten and once by Sander Schutten. It's a game on blogs. If you get tagged, you need to give 5 useless facts about yourself and tag 5 other people. So here are my 5 useless facts:1) I do know both Sander and Nigel of the 'Hogeschool van Amsterdam'. Thats the school where we all have studied Information Technology.2) During my studies I

Callout not working?

Lets write a bit more about how to get a callout to work and to make debugging available. I already wrote something about this before in this post: Callout debug: Access is Denied.So your callout is not fired? Here are some thoughts to get started. Make sure that:- the callout even should fire. Are you using the right callout? Special attention to the email PreSend and PostDeliver callouts:

Virtual PC 2007 Beta: Keyboard Problems (repeating keys)

About everybody who's using the beta of VPC 2007 is facing the same problem: Keys are being repeated again and again. When searching around on the internet, I found that this bug has been submitted and will be fixed in the RTM. Furthermore I found that there is a temporary solution. The workaround is to use the idle_thread. Now how do you set this setting?- Use Explorer and go to the %root%\