Jason Nadal
Restless C#ding
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Codename "MONAD"
In one of the most overlooked cool things at the PDC (in my opinion, anyway), the new Command Shell that will be in Longhorn blew me away when I saw it. I walked up to the booth asking if unix-like file aliases would be in the new shell, and was given a demo by the team that had my mind racing.
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Extended Blog Conversation
Here's what I came out with after the blogging birds of a feather session last night:
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Blogger BoF Pics
Check out my photo blog for pics of last nights blogger BoF at http://nadal.textamerica.com .
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Free is good
How's this for a load of free stuff? http://nadal.textamerica.com/default.asp?r=130959 Although the bits will have to wait until tomorrow after the keynote. Also, I noticed at MS pavilion station 24, they are showing Aero. My curiosity is piqued...
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Near the PDC
Well, after an interesting flight (big fire near LA; we couldn't see ANYTHING out the plane for around 5 minutes), Scott, Doug, DonXML, and I made it to our hotels. I have pictures from my camera at my moblog at http://nadal.textamerica.com if anyone's interested. Off to watch the World Series game 6 now, at another conference hotel. Westin Bonaventure seems pretty good so far.
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Using Windows Server 2003 As Dev
While trying to program ASP.NET, I used my copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to make my laptop into one smoking loaded development machine. And it was good. But as soon as I tried to install the Virtual PC drivers (needed to run the pocket pc emulator), it failed, saying that the likely culprit was that I was not an administrator (I am).
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PDC and Future Security
From the MSDN “General Articles” Section: Using the Emulator in Smart Device Projects.
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Preventing Postbacks on the Client Side
Have you ever had the desire to prevent a form from posting back if certain conditions were met on a form? Suitable reasons would be for pages that send a large amount of data to/from the server on postback. My first thought was that this could be handled by adding an OnSubmit to the form tag using the Form.Attributes.Add() method, but I found that whatever I added through codebehind was put in execution order AFTER the submit method.
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XP MCE 2004
A CNET video shows the recently released Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. They cleaned up the UI, and added a few more features, along with the stability that is XP. Highlights: XPMCE - “Is it chocolate or is it peanut butter? ... It's both” --Rick Thompson, corp vice president
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Microsoft PDC
I'll of course be attending the Microsoft PDC conference in LA, although I've been late in posting it. I can't wait! Especially the attendee party at Universal Studios...