M. Rajesh's WebLog

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Profile now available on Microsoft Communities.

At last my profile is now available on this site.

It is great to be a part of the Microsoft Communities and also great to get my photo listed there.

M Rajesh

MSDN Product Feedback and Release of VS.NET 2005 Beta 1.

Glancing at the headlines in today's blogs (http://weblogs.asp.net) shows that everyone is so excited to see the launch of the public beta of Visual Studio .NET 2005.

Also the website for reporting your bugs for this public beta has been announced at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ and it has a cool look which allows you to  report bugs and track your communications with the Product Team.

Microsoft also announced the release of The Express products, expanding the Visual Studio product line to include lightweight, easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and novices who want to build dynamic Windows applications and Web sites. Read more about them at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

Can't Afford a Tablet PC? Try This!

Saw this link when browsing the MSDN Magazine articles at msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag.

If you dont have a tablet PC but have the tablet PC Operating system you can convert an existing computer to a tablet pc with some tweaking. Read here.

Code Snippets in VS.NET 2005

When going through the VS.NET 2005 CTP, i saw a new feature called Insert Code Snippet and on studying it found that there were code snippets for various tasks that are commonly used now a days. When using it I realised that it resembled another feature found back in Visual Basic 5.0. That is the application wizard, which allows you to create a simple application with a navigator bar, buttons for database interaction. While this might be a good feature, most of the developers prefer to use their own style of coding for the same task.

Wonder if this same paradigm will follow for the code snippets. Since we have our own style of writing code from the past, we would prefer to use the same standards now also. Let me know what do u think of this concept.  

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team System

MS has renamed the future version of Visual Studio .nET as Visual Studio .nET 2005 Team System and it now provides full features for architectures, developers, project managers, team development and testers.

A detailed article on this is provided at this link.

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Community Preview

Installed my Visual Studio .NET 2005 Community Preview Edition last week and it went fine without any glitch. Just went through the features of the editor and observed one strange thing. The feature to include code-beside pages for web pages has to be selected each time you add a page and it has attracted a lot of attention from developers. This will be rectified in a future release.

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Web Site

Microsoft has launched a new Developer Center for Visual Studio 2005. Click here to view the site.

This contains all resources related to Visual Studio 2005 as well as the link to the newsgroups for Visual Studio 2005.

 

My blogging starts today

Since I received the Visual Studio 2005 Community Preview yesterday I thought it to start my blogging on Whidbey and related articles here from today onwards. Stay tuned.

I have another blogs for Longhorn and you can view it here.

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