Senior software & solution architect in Stuttgart, Germany. .NET platforms, enterprise integration, long-lived product architecture and agentic AI.https://www.parago.de/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-parago-website/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-parago-website/In September 2026 parago.de got a new website. All articles from 2007 to 2018 are still here, and the site now comes in English and German.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-kickbase-kaderplaner-to-the-browser/https://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-kickbase-kaderplaner-to-the-browser/In August 2026 I rebuilt the Kickbase Kaderplaner from scratch. It is a small helper for the Bundesliga fantasy game Kickbase. It rates every player in the squad, finds the best eleven and shows what a sale does to the account before anything is sold.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/edgenums-a-number-puzzle-in-net-and-avalonia/https://www.parago.de/blog/edgenums-a-number-puzzle-in-net-and-avalonia/In August 2026 I released EdgeNums, a number puzzle for Android, iOS, Windows and the browser. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved by logic alone, without guessing. It is free, has no ads and needs no account.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-peakboard-runtime-on-avalonia/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-peakboard-runtime-on-avalonia/In 2026 I ported the Peakboard runtime a second time, from Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to Avalonia. The runtime is the part of Peakboard that shows a board on a screen. The first port in 2019 removed the limits of the Universal Windows Platform sandbox. This one makes the runtime independent of Windows.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-building-blocks-rework-in-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-building-blocks-rework-in-peakboard/Three years after the first version I went back to the Building Blocks editor. The blocks themselves were still fine. The real problems were navigating a large block tree, testing something without destroying it and finding the one block that broke the flow.Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-peakboard-extension-kit-to-net-8/https://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-peakboard-extension-kit-to-net-8/Between April and June I ported the Peakboard Extension Kit to .NET 8. The public interfaces did not change, so an extension still describes a data source the way it always did. Everything underneath changed, because the transport the kit was built on does not exist any more.Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/flows-in-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/flows-in-peakboard/Six years after dataflows I built flows. A dataflow shapes a table and waits to be asked for it. A flow decides when things happen: which data source reloads, in which order, on what trigger, and what runs afterwards. It is the part of a board that keeps working while nobody is looking at the screen.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/lua-scripting-in-peakboard-with-moonsharp/https://www.parago.de/blog/lua-scripting-in-peakboard-with-moonsharp/Peakboard boards are scripted in Lua, and the runtime is a .NET application. The piece that connects the two is MoonSharp, a Lua interpreter written in C#. Picking the interpreter was the easy decision. The surface between the two languages was not.Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/building-blocks-the-visual-script-editor-for-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/building-blocks-the-visual-script-editor-for-peakboard/In April 2022 I finished building a second way to write logic in Peakboard. We called it Visual Coding at the start and renamed it to Building Blocks later. Instead of typing Lua code into the script editor, you snap graphical blocks together and the editor writes the code for you.Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/building-blocks-from-prototype-to-peakboard-designer/https://www.parago.de/blog/building-blocks-from-prototype-to-peakboard-designer/By the summer of 2021 the Visual Coding prototype was solid enough to move it into the real Peakboard Designer. We renamed it to Building Blocks and gave it a proper home inside the Script Editor, as a second mode next to the plain Lua text editor. Getting there meant real type safety, faster editing and the first block families.Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/visual-coding-the-first-prototype-of-peakboards-block-editor/https://www.parago.de/blog/visual-coding-the-first-prototype-of-peakboards-block-editor/In June 2021 I finished a prototype for a new way to write logic in Peakboard. We called the idea Visual Coding. Instead of typing Lua code, you would snap blocks together and the editor would write the script for you. This is not the finished editor yet, just the prototype that proved the idea would work.Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-peakboard-extension-kit/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-peakboard-extension-kit/In July 2020 I finished the Peakboard Extension Kit. It is a NuGet package with a handful of interfaces: you implement one, ship a DLL, and your own data source shows up in Peakboard Designer next to the built-in ones. The interesting part was never the interface. It was keeping somebody else's code from taking a board down.Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-peakboard-runtime-from-uwp-to-wpf/https://www.parago.de/blog/porting-the-peakboard-runtime-from-uwp-to-wpf/In December 2019 I finished porting the Peakboard runtime, the part that puts a board on a screen, from UWP to WPF on .NET Framework 4.6.2. The board files did not change. What changed is that the runtime now lives on the same platform as the designer, and stops fighting a sandbox that was never meant for it.Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/dataflows-in-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/dataflows-in-peakboard/Since the summer I have been building dataflows. A dataflow takes a data source and puts an ordered list of steps on top of it: filter, rename, change a type, join, look something up. What comes out is a new list that behaves like any other data source, and nobody had to write a line of Lua to get there.Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-screen-transitions-and-control-animations-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-screen-transitions-and-control-animations-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/Starting with the next release Peakboard is supporting new screen transitions and control animation effects. With a couple of basis operations the users are able to create stunning custom control animations.Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-use-the-peakboard-log-view-in-preview-mode/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-use-the-peakboard-log-view-in-preview-mode/Yesterday my post about how to use the Log-View Panel in Preview mode was published on the Peakboard blog (in German language only).Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-opc-ua-data-source-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-opc-ua-data-source-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/A couple of days ago I finished the first development iteration of our brand new OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) data source for the Peakboard system.Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-photo-frame-control-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-photo-frame-control-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/A while ago I've developed a nice Photo Frame control for Peakboard. This control implements an image switcher using the widely known Ken Burns effect.Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-mqtt-data-source-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-mqtt-data-source-of-the-peakboard-digital-signage-system/A couple of months ago I finished work on the first of a series of specialized data sources that are used in an industrial environment. The MQTT data source implements the ISO standard 20922, a publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol.Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-features-for-stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-features-for-stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016/Today I implemented a couple of new features to the Stock Quote Add-In for Excel. You now can use an item reference notation to access all available JSON values.Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016-and2013-using-the-google-finance-api/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016-and2013-using-the-google-finance-api/I have updated the popular Stock Quote Add-In For Excel to now support the Google Finance API. The old Stock Quote add-in was using the Yahoo Finance service to retrieve the stock quotes. The service has been terminated by Yahoo on 11/01/2017.Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-retro-flipper-block-control-for-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-retro-flipper-block-control-for-peakboard/A couple a days ago I've developed a new control called the Retro Flipper Block and emulates the old mechanical flip style number and letter displays.Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-live-tile-box-control-for-peakboard/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-live-tile-box-control-for-peakboard/Recently I have developed the new and fantastic Live Tile Box control for Peakboard. This control behaves similar to the Live Tiles you may know from the Windows start menu and perfectly fits the requirement to show more information on a single screen.Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-show-animated-info-panels-via-lua-scripting-in-your-peakboard-visualization/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-show-animated-info-panels-via-lua-scripting-in-your-peakboard-visualization/A couple of days ago I have written a article for the Peakboard.com blog that shows the usage of the new Info Panel feature available to Peakboard visualizations.Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/yahoo-terminated-the-finance-service-api-stock-quote-add-in-not-working/https://www.parago.de/blog/yahoo-terminated-the-finance-service-api-stock-quote-add-in-not-working/The Stock Quote add-in is using the Yahoo Finance service API to retrieve the stock quotes. The service seems to be terminated by Yahoo without any notice on 11/01/2017.Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/moved-my-open-source-repositories-from-codeplex-to-github/https://www.parago.de/blog/moved-my-open-source-repositories-from-codeplex-to-github/Microsoft is shutting down it's Open Source Hosting site CodePlex. I had published a number of the projects on this site.Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/peakboard-added-new-data-source-to-support-siemens-simatic-s7/https://www.parago.de/blog/peakboard-added-new-data-source-to-support-siemens-simatic-s7/At Peakboard we added now a fantastic new data source to finally support the Siemens Simatic S7 automation system.Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/video-peakboard-explained-in-two-minutes/https://www.parago.de/blog/video-peakboard-explained-in-two-minutes/A new video got published on the Peakboard YouTube channel explaining the Peakboard system in one minute.Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-channel-on-youtube-about-creating-peakboard-displays/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-channel-on-youtube-about-creating-peakboard-displays/A few weeks ago we created a new video channel on YouTube to explain different aspects of the creation process of Peakboard visualizations.Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016/https://www.parago.de/blog/stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2016/I have updated the popular "MSN-like Stock Quotes Add-In For Excel 2013" to support Excel 2016. The user defined function PSQ is exactly the same used in the previous version, but it will retrieve stock data asynchronously.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/peakboard-a-new-way-to-handle-digital-signage/https://www.parago.de/blog/peakboard-a-new-way-to-handle-digital-signage/The Peakboard Digital Signage system is a new way to manage digital signs and display units, created with a fantastic designer tool.Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-seamless-integration-of-sap-and-sharepoint/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-seamless-integration-of-sap-and-sharepoint/Theobald Software published a new and very nice explanatory video about the seamless integration of SAP and SharePoint using ERPConnect Services.Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-xtract-is-table-join-component/https://www.parago.de/blog/the-new-xtract-is-table-join-component/Theobald Software released the brand new Table Join component for the Xtract IS product suite. The component is using a very nice and efficent join and criteria designer.Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-erpconnect-services-runtime-connecting-a-nintex-workflow-with-sap/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-video-erpconnect-services-runtime-connecting-a-nintex-workflow-with-sap/Theobald Software published a new video about how to use the ERPConnect Services Runtime to connect a Nintex Workflow with SAP.Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-article-about-building-an-odata-service-in-ecs-webservice-designer-for-sharepoint-2013-workflow/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-article-about-building-an-odata-service-in-ecs-webservice-designer-for-sharepoint-2013-workflow/A knowledge base article on building an OData web service in the ECS WebService Designer and calling it from a SharePoint 2013 workflow.Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/my-new-jekyll-site/https://www.parago.de/blog/my-new-jekyll-site/The site moved from WordPress to Jekyll, a static site generator that fits a blog with a few posts a year.Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-knowledge-base-article-about-how-to-access-sap-data-via-ecs-core-from-sharepoint-online/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-knowledge-base-article-about-how-to-access-sap-data-via-ecs-core-from-sharepoint-online/A provider-hosted SharePoint Online app that reads SAP data through ECS Core, with single sign-on via Azure AD and ADAL.Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-article-about-how-to-import-odata-based-bdc-model-in-sharepoint-online/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-article-about-how-to-import-odata-based-bdc-model-in-sharepoint-online/How to create an external content type from an OData service and import the BDC model into SharePoint Online, where SharePoint Designer cannot do it.Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/new-sharepoint-kompendium-magazin-article-about-ecs-web-service-designer/https://www.parago.de/blog/new-sharepoint-kompendium-magazin-article-about-ecs-web-service-designer/Magazine article in the SHAREPoint Kompendium about the ECS Web Service Designer, which designs SAP-driven web services for SharePoint without code.Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-design-wcf-services-for-sharepoint-2013-without-writing-code-using-ecs-web-service-designer/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-design-wcf-services-for-sharepoint-2013-without-writing-code-using-ecs-web-service-designer/Theobald Software just released the ECS Web Service Designer for SharePoint 2010/2013 and ECS Core. The designer is part of the product suite ERPConnect Services, a suite which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP system.Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-integrate-sap-business-data-into-sharepoint-2010-using-bcs-services-and-bcs-connector-from-theobald-software/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-integrate-sap-business-data-into-sharepoint-2010-using-bcs-services-and-bcs-connector-from-theobald-software/I have developed a new version of the popular "MSN-like Stock Quotes Add-In For Excel 2007" for Excel 2013. The user defined function PSQ is exactly the same used in the previous version, but it will retrieve stock data asynchronously.Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2013/https://www.parago.de/blog/stock-quote-add-in-for-excel-2013/I have developed a new version of the popular "MSN-like Stock Quotes Add-In For Excel 2007" for Excel 2013. The user defined function PSQ is exactly the same used in the previous version, but it will retrieve stock data asynchronously.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/nice-html5-demos-with-sap-customer-and-stock-quantity-data-using-erpconnect/https://www.parago.de/blog/nice-html5-demos-with-sap-customer-and-stock-quantity-data-using-erpconnect/A couple of weeks ago I have implemeted two HTML5 demos in C# using ASP.NET MVC, Web API and jQuery. The demos are displaying SAP customer and stock quantity data. The SAP/.NET connectivity is handled by the ERPConnect library from Theobald Software.Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/fiddler-and-the-401-error-with-asp-net-web-api-using-integrated-windows-authentication/https://www.parago.de/blog/fiddler-and-the-401-error-with-asp-net-web-api-using-integrated-windows-authentication/A few days ago I had a real strange problem while using HttpClient in combination with ASP.NET Web API and integrated windows authentication (IIS Express). To keep it simple, I always got a 401 (Unauthorized) error returned from the localhost website, even though I was setting up the HttpClient correctly (see screenshots) and the HttpClient was sending the authorization header (negotiate).Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/using-erpconnect-services-to-integrate-sap-business-data-into-sharepoint-2010/https://www.parago.de/blog/using-erpconnect-services-to-integrate-sap-business-data-into-sharepoint-2010/SharePoint 2010 provides developer with the capability to integrate external data sources like SAP business data via the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) into the SharePoint system. The concept of BCS is based on entities and associated stereotyped operations. This perfectly suits for flat and simple structured data sets like SAP tables.Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/theobald-software-released-erpconnect-services-for-sharepoint-2010/https://www.parago.de/blog/theobald-software-released-erpconnect-services-for-sharepoint-2010/Theobald Software GmbH is finally releasing an existing new product to integrate SAP business data into SharePoint 2010. ERPConnect Services is its name and consists of 3 components, which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP ERP/BW system.Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/fluentsp-the-fluent-sharepoint-api/https://www.parago.de/blog/fluentsp-the-fluent-sharepoint-api/Once you are doing a lot of SharePoint programming you know you often have to write lengthy pieces of code to implement simple tasks like querying SharePoint lists. Nowadays you can read a lot of fluent APIs or fluent interface. For instance, jQuery, a JavaScript library that had successfully introduced a fluent API to handle the hierarchical structure of the HTML documents.Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/paragoservices-a-sharepoint-2010-service-application-sample/https://www.parago.de/blog/paragoservices-a-sharepoint-2010-service-application-sample/The new Service Application Architecture in SharePoint 2010 is a replacement of the Shared Service Provider (SSP) architecture known from SharePoint 2007. The framework offers greater flexibility in configuring, scaling and administrating SharePoint shared services.Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-generic-template-engine-for-sharepoint-2010-using-dotliquid/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-generic-template-engine-for-sharepoint-2010-using-dotliquid/During the process of creating a complex SharePoint application you often need to send mails and create text files based on SharePoint data elements like SPListItem or SPWeb. Mail templates for instance mostly contain specific list item data. It would be helpful sometimes if the text generation itself is template-driven.Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-secure-store-as-single-sign-on-service-for-sap-applications-using-erpconnect/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-secure-store-as-single-sign-on-service-for-sap-applications-using-erpconnect/The Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2010 replaces the Single Sign-on Shared Service of MOSS 2007 and provides an easy way to map user credentials of external resources like SAP systems to Windows users. During the process of developing SAP interfaces using the very handy ERPConnect library from Theobald Software you have to open a R3 connection with the SAP system using SAP account credentials (username and password).Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-export-sharepoint-task-list-data-to-pdf-using-a-templating-system/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-export-sharepoint-task-list-data-to-pdf-using-a-templating-system/A couple of times I had the situation where I needed to export SharePoint list data into a PDF file in a customized way. I wanted to use some kind of template technology to translate SharePoint list data into a PDF file.Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-modern-progress-dialog-for-wpf-applications/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-modern-progress-dialog-for-wpf-applications/Developing a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application requires sometimes to execute an asynchronous task with long-running execution steps, e.g. calling a web service. If those steps are triggered by user interactions, you want show a progress dialog to block the user interface and display detail step information.Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-custom-sharepoint-2010-logging-service-for-uls-and-windows-event-log/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-a-custom-sharepoint-2010-logging-service-for-uls-and-windows-event-log/Prior to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 there was no official documented way to programmatically use the built-in ULS service (Unified Logging Service) to log own custom messages. There are still solutions available on the internet that can be used, but SharePoint 2010 now supports full-blown logging service support.Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/using-a-custom-authentication-provider-for-the-sharepoint-2010-bcs-administration-object-model/https://www.parago.de/blog/using-a-custom-authentication-provider-for-the-sharepoint-2010-bcs-administration-object-model/The SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are providing an Administration Object Model to manage all kind of BCS objects. You can use the an Administration Object Model to programmatically create BDC models, LOB system and instances, Entities and Methods. The Microsoft SharePoint Designer is using the object model itself to let you generate External Content Types (ECT).Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/online-mind-mapping-tool-in-silverlight/https://www.parago.de/blog/online-mind-mapping-tool-in-silverlight/Last year I've developed a prototype of an Online Mind Mapping Tool in Silverlight. Finally I've published a still very buggy version of the tool.Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-4-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/https://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-4-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/I’ve released a new version (2.4) of the Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC 1.0, that is fixing an issue regarding format changes in the jQuery validation plugin of the minlength, maxlength and rangelength validators.Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-3-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/https://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-3-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/I’ve released a new version (2.3) of the Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC 1.0, that is fixing an issue regarding format changes in the jQuery validation plugin of the minlength, maxlength and rangelength validators.Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-0-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/https://www.parago.de/blog/version-2-0-of-the-validator-toolkit-for-asp-net-mvc-released/You may also want to check out the new verison 2.0 of the Validator Toolkit ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/msdn-code-clips-showing-sap-r3-data-access-in-net-applications-4/https://www.parago.de/blog/msdn-code-clips-showing-sap-r3-data-access-in-net-applications-4/I have created some code clips (in German language) for Microsoft MSDN to show how to access SAP data in .NET using LINQ to SAP from Theobald Software. The clips will show how to display SAP data in Silverlight using ADO.NET Data Services and LINQ to SAP.Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/update-installer-for-msn-like-stock-quotes-add-in-for-excel-2007/https://www.parago.de/blog/update-installer-for-msn-like-stock-quotes-add-in-for-excel-2007/I finally created a Windows-Installer for the Stock Quotes Add-In for Excel 2007 and 2010.Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-custom-cursors-in-silverlight/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-custom-cursors-in-silverlight/I wrote an article about custom cursors in Silverlight 2 on CodeProject.com. This article describes how to implement the custom cursor types in Silverlight.Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-mergeddictionaries-for-resourcedictionary-in-silverlight-2/https://www.parago.de/blog/how-to-implement-mergeddictionaries-for-resourcedictionary-in-silverlight-2/I wrote a new article about MergedDictionaries for ResourceDictionary in Silverlight 2 on CodeProject.com. This article describes how to implement the MergedDictionaries feature for resource dictionaries in Silverlight.Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/linq-to-sap/https://www.parago.de/blog/linq-to-sap/I wrote an article about LINQ to SAP at CodeProject.com, a new LINQ provider I developed for the company Theobald Software GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. This provider allows you to easily connect to SAP/R3 systems using the LINQ technology and a Visual Studio 2008 Designer.Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/validator-toolkit-for-aspnet-mvc/https://www.parago.de/blog/validator-toolkit-for-aspnet-mvc/Yesterday I started this new project on CodePlex called Validator Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC. The Validator Toolkit provides a set of validators for the new ASP.NET MVC framework to validate HTML forms on the client and server-side using validation sets.Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/extensiontoolkit-project-on-codeplex/https://www.parago.de/blog/extensiontoolkit-project-on-codeplex/Yesterday I started this new project in order to create a nice and useful collection of extension methods for all kind of types (e.g. String class extensions).Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/creating-a-msn-like-stock-quotes-add-in-for-excel-2007-using-user-defined-functions-and-ribbons/https://www.parago.de/blog/creating-a-msn-like-stock-quotes-add-in-for-excel-2007-using-user-defined-functions-and-ribbons/Today I wrote an article about writing a managed Excel 2007 add-in with C# and without VSTO.Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/creating-dal-components-using-custom-aspnet-build-providers-and-compiler-techniques/https://www.parago.de/blog/creating-dal-components-using-custom-aspnet-build-providers-and-compiler-techniques/In September 2006 I wrote an article about build providers in ASP.NET on CodeProject.com. This article describes how to create Data Access Layer Components (DALC) using build providers and a self-defined description language, including an easy scanner, parser, and CodeDOM generator.Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.parago.de/blog/welcome-to-my-blog/https://www.parago.de/blog/welcome-to-my-blog/Finally I started my own blog about .NET development and .NET/SAP integration. I would like to invite you to comment on the hopefully interesting articles and stuff I want to publish in the upcoming months.Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT