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Thirty Years of Backwards Compatibility
Eric Lippert, who works on the Visual Studio Tools for Office team at Microsoft, has a great blog entry showing how the error codes and descriptions for VB6 and VB Script go all the back to the original Altair BASIC (Microsoft's first product) written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen back in 1975 for the Altair 8080.
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An Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and Its Specifications
This new article on MSDN is a long, comprehensive overview of Web Services and their various specs.
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Pat Helland on SOA
I think I have mentioned Pat Helland previously in my blog postings. He's a good guy, who's been around and knows his stuff. Check out his new paper on SOA: Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside. It is very extensive, but organized and clear.
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Learn about .NET - Israel Style !
If you haven't signed up yet, make sure you register for next week's .NET on the Beach event in Herzeliya (Israel). I can't promise you "Fun 'n Sun" since it is starting at 7:00 in the evening, but there will be lots of fun, networking, swimming and a look at future .NET and Visual Studio technologies.
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It's Good to be Home Again
It is good to be home again. Even for a pretty heavy traveller like me, being away from Home for 3 full weeks is a long time. Other than that, it was a good trip. A week in New York, visiting family and clients was good and productive (respectively). After that, 2 full weeks in Seattle/Redmond was also great, albeit pretty intense. Very long days of training/briefing sessions and lots of meetings. I certainly learned alot - and may even have gotten a feature request incorporated into VS 2005! I also found time to speak at the Seattle User Group on campus and to have a really fun Sunday afternoon at Paul Allen's Experience Music Project.
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.NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 released
You can download the .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 here.