Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET
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Welcome to Atom.NET
I have a great deal of respect for Sam Ruby and the work he is doing with Atom. But his C# Atom client is convoluted and a pain to work with. David Stewart, a Microsoft empoyee on the Windows Mobile Devices group, came up with a class library that works with Atom in an intelligent way, using web requests instead of Web Service proxies. Best of all, he has the source code and samples as well. If you're working with Atom at all, this is a must have.
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Thank You Mr. President
Read my thoughts here.
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Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta Review
Today Microsoft released the Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta. I got my first sneek peek at it during the MVP Summit in April. Jim Allchin was really excited about it. Now I can finally discuss why. After you install it (link at the bottom of the page) you'll be asked to restart your computer. When you launch it after restarting, you'll be greated with this:
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Whitehorse in the May CTP?
Anyone know how to access the application designer in the May CTP bits? It seems to have changed since the March bits, and I can't find it at all. I need to finish a diagram for a client, and I wanted to use it instead of Visio. Any ideas?
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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.