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Virtual PC and DVD
It is quite frustrating to discover that Virtual PC 2004 does not support DVD ISO images larger than 2.2 GB. I downloaded the latest VS 2005 beta DVD image from MSDN Subscription site (the CD ISO images do not have Team System support) and tried to mount...
Posted: Sep 07 2004, 02:17 PM by juntao | with 8 comment(s)
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Nokia's big plan to beat .Net CF in mobile Web services
This entry is cross-posted from my Java blog due to its relevance to the .Net Compact Framework community. Personally, I think the biggest announcement from JavaOne is that Nokia is building a Service-Oriented Architecture framework on smart mobile phones...
Posted: Jun 30 2004, 02:54 PM by juntao | with 8 comment(s)
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JavaOne thoughts and guides
I will use this space as a place holder to link to my thoughts on JavaOne posted on my Java blog . Since I have multiple hard deadlines coming up this week, I probably would not be able to write much. But I will report important news, especially those...
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 02:36 PM by juntao | with no comments
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New Advances in .NET Mobile Technologies
Fawcette published my article today as part of their TechEd coverage. The article surveys several important .NET Mobile technologies from 30,000 feet: ASP.NET 2.0, .NET CF 2.0, Visual studio 2005 and MapPoint. I did not have room for the Speech Server...
Posted: May 26 2004, 12:15 PM by juntao | with 24 comment(s)
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Free .NET CF Pocket Guide @ TechEd
It seems that the .NET CF team is giving away Wei-Meng Lee's new book .NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide (O'reilly 2004) together with the Windows Mobile Developer Resources DVD at TechEd. The DVD contains device SDKs (integrate with VS.Net 2003), articles...
Posted: May 25 2004, 11:13 PM by juntao | with 1 comment(s)
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C# has matured for the classroom
My wife, Ju Long, has just published her thoughts on the academic Computing Curriculum Workshop at TechEd 2004. In summary: 1. C# is increasing adopted in college level computer science classes. 2. Tablet PC is a god-send for interactive classrooms.
Posted: May 25 2004, 12:00 PM by juntao | with 1 comment(s)
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Crazy things you can do with location data!
Microsoft's MapPoint team has an internal location server that tracks the location of some its members. I developed a PocketPC client for the server a while back. Out of boredom and curiosity, I decide to check whether those guys are attending TechEd...
Posted: May 24 2004, 11:09 AM by juntao | with 3 comment(s)
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TechEd from 1100 miles away
I was invited to attend TechEd's Academic Computing Curriculum Workshop -- all expenses paid plus free pass to TechEd itself. But for some reason I thought I'd be too busy finishing up my PhD dissertation and declined to go. Now, I have to watch all the...
Posted: May 23 2004, 03:56 PM by juntao | with no comments
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Mono and .Net Compact Framework
The Mono project has just released its first beta. Since the Mono runtime does support StrongARM processors (interpretator not JIT compiler though), a lot of people ask, what does it mean to .Net Compact Framework developers? Can I now deploy my CF apps...
Posted: May 06 2004, 02:24 PM by juntao | with 24 comment(s)
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Scott Beaudreau blogs about Mobile Web Services (and my thoughts on this topic)
Scott Beaudreau, an Architectural Consultant with Microsoft, has just started a blog about mobile web services . It is just great to have a window looking into what Microsoft has been up to with the cutting edge mobile web services! I personally have...
Posted: Apr 05 2004, 12:47 PM by juntao | with 1 comment(s)
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