Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET
Public Shared Function BrainDump(ByVal dotNet As String) As [Value]
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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!