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Seeing The Future, No Seance Required
Recently, Paschal and Matt have been asking me for clarification on my earlier comment that we would be charging for VisualBlogger 2004. Truth be told, I had written a post about this a few days ago, but my computer froze, and I lost the post. At any rate, I've clarified it over on my corporate blog. Please let me know what you think.
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VS2005 MAY 2004 CTP: What Happened To My DefaultInstance?
One of the coolest new features iI saw in the March 2004 CTP bits was the new "DefaultInstance" property in WinForms design. Well, I just installed the May 2004 CTP bits, and when I went to recompile my app, it threw an error. I go ti investigate, and the DefaultInstance property, and it's associated attribute, have been removed. What gives?!?!?? That was a great idea, and should have stayed in. Where did it go?
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New VisualBlogger 2004 Build Posted - Beta 2a
Wanted to give you guys a heads-up and let you know that I've posted a new build of VisualBlogger 2004. I'll post the official fix list tomorrow for the Support Feed, but for now here is a brief overview:
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GO TEAM ASU!!!
Just found out through Scott Mitchell that Team ASU tied for 3rd Place with the University of Illinois - Champaign at the Imagine Cup 2004 finals. They worked really hard, and came up with an awesome solution that used RFID tags to help blind people learn more about their environment.
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VS2005 Favorites: XML/XSD Heaven
Visual Studio 2005 has some really awesome new features. My favorite so far is the new XML/XSD designer. Working with XML is a lot more intuitive now, and they've made it dirt simple to create a schema from a given XML file.
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The REAL Reason Behind the ObjectSpaces Furor
So I've read the news over the past few days about the delay of ObjectSpaces until the Longhorn wave, and a lot of people seem to be upset by it for various reasons. I've been watching this play out with interest, and made a few interesting observations about the situation.
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Whidbey Hates Me
I've been trying to convert a Windows application from VS.NET 2003 to VS.NET 2005 - March CTP, and I haven't had the best of luck. First, the installation I did was running RIDICULOUSLY slow. Every time I made a code change, it took in upwards of 4 minutes to recompile a 4 project solution (on a dual proc, hyperthreaded 2.4GHz Xeon box). Then, I kept getting COM errors in the designer. I saw some cool new properties in the "Project Properties" dialog, like "Make Single Instance Application" and "Show Splashscreen At Startup", but none of them were enabled in the upgraded project, which made ma kinda mad. So I finally said "screw it", reformatted the box, reinstalled Windows XP and VS.NET 2005, and tried to start designing a Windows application from scratch.
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Gates Talks Empowerment Through RSS
MaryJo has an interesting article about BillG's comments at the 8th Annual CEO Summit. His message: "bottoms-up empowerment".
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VisualBlogger 2004 Beta 2 Released, and a Contest
This morning, we officially launched VisualBlogger 2004 Beta 2. I talked about it a bit earlier over on my corporate blog. We've made some nifty changes, so if you want to find out more, head on over. I did want to mention here that we now support dasBlog, Radio, TypePad, and BlogWare, with more to come.
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Cyberakt Becomes ComponentArt.com
I am very excited today to announce that my very good friends over at Cyberakt, the makers of ASPnetMenu and RichContentRotator, have changed their name to ComponentArt, and launched a brand new website and new products. Man, this new site is sexy as hell. The quality of the site design is far better than any other component vendor out there, myself included. It's not too cluttered, it's easy on the eyes, and it makes excellent use of blacks, whites, and reds. As any decent graphic design book or magazine will tell you, these are the three best colors for designing things for readability, especially in print.
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TabletPC Videos up on Channel 9
The just posted a new video from Peter Loforte on some of the new things you'll see in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 or whatever the hell they're calling it now. It's good stuff, you should check it out. The TabletPC he's using? It's a slate-vertible from HP. It works like a regular convertible, moving from Notebook node to the "flip-around-and lock" convertible mode, but with one KILLER exception. You can also completely remove the keyboard and it tirns into a slate. How cool is that. Now if it were as powerful as the Portege 4000, I'd get one.
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Word Up To My Boyz
[Now Playing: Black Eyed Peas - Where's The Love?]
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TechEd 2004 BOFs: Things To Remember
I was looking over the list of BOFs for this year's TechEd (I won't be going after all, unfortunately), and it looks like there's going to be a great set of sessions. Having ran 2 sessions and PDC and attended several others, I wanted to give a few tips for everyone running one at the end of the month.
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AtomAPI Problems and the Road to Beta 2
Sorry about the radio silence the past week or so. It's been really hectic around here. Several of my friends graduated from college the past 2 weeks, so my weekends have been full of partying ;). But I've been working on VisualBlogger 2004 very heavily, walking down the long road to Beta 2. I've made a ton of progress, and the client is much more stable now. We have a complete implementation of the Provider Model, a la .NET 2.0, which I am extremely excited about.
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Downloading Longhorn?
Here's a few things you could do while you wait.
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Longhorn WinHEC Build Now Available on MSDN
Go get it now!
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Exclusive Setup Screenshots on LonghornBlogs.com
One of the benefits of installing Longhorn over an RDC connection is the ability to grab screenshots easily of the setup process. In a LonghornBlogs.com EXCLUSIVE, I walk you through the setup process step-by-step. The process is basically unchanged from the PDC bits, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. Head on over and check it out.