Archives
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WinForms 2.0: Still the Bastard Child of .NET Development
You know, there are some great new WinForms controls in .NET 2.0. It's obvious that Microsoft has spent a lot of time making WinForms better than it was in 1.X. But having spent the last several days building WinForms 2.0 demos, I'm extremely frustrated at the holes that are still all over the place. Maybe I'm just dumb and don't know what I'm doing, or maybe I really do need a college degree to do this stuff, but some things that are supposed to be intuitive are anything but. Just a few of my frustrations (please jump in if you know the answers to any of these):
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Changing My Focus in Software Development
Alright, it's official. As of today I'm no longer an ASP.NET MVP. My focus in software development has been shifting towards thick and smart client development for a while now, and I've been liking it a lot. Since the focus on LonghornBlogs.com is primarily on the Windows client, it's fitting that I'm now a Windows Client MVP instead. I'll still have a lot to contribute on the web development side, but I'm much happier with how everything fits together now.
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Known Issues with the MSBuild Toolkit for VS2005 RC
I've had a number of people give me great feedback on the MSBuild Toolkit I put out last week, and I wanted to note all the issues that I'm currently investigating.
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Uninstalling Visual Studio .NET 2003
Now that I've finally released a backwards-compatibility toolkit for MSBuild that I'm happy with, I'm taking a huge leap. I'm uninstalling Visual Studio .NET 2003 from my machine. I'm gonna see if it really is possible to do 100% of my .NET 1.1 work from Visual Studio 2005. Heh, the only way to find out is to try, right?
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Announcing the MSBuild Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 RC!
This download has been removed. A new one will be posted in April 2006.