Guy Barrette

While speaking at the USI 2009 conference in Paris, I attended Todd Zaki Warfel’ paper prototyping session.  The purpose of paper prototyping is for a team to create screen mock-ups with simple tools like paper, scissors and Post-Its.  Team members would consist of graphic designers, engineers, marketing people and stakeholders.  The goal is to produce the mock-ups without relying on software tools because clients often focus on non important stuff instead of functionalities at that stage. 

The ADO.NET team blogged about it a month ago but I just saw it.  In .NET 4.0, the System.Data.OracleClient will be deprecated.  It will still be there and apps using it will still work but warnings will be generated at compile time but no errors will be generated at runtime.

Expression Studio 3 is now available for MSDN subscribers.

Microsoft has released a new Azure SDK CTP.  Basically, workflow is gone.

[Via Christian Weyer]

Here’s the official announcement:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx