November, 2006

Last week, I delivered a presentation on Live Gadgets as part of the ongoing Live for You! Webcast Series . Many thanks to those of you who were able to attend. My goal was to show you just how easy it is to build gadgets as part of the Live platform. Review During the presentation, I explained how gadgets are high-level components designed to provide complete functionality for visual and application...

Chris Dufour, one of our user group leaders for the East of Toronto .NET User Group , has shared with everyone one of the modules he has built for the Toronto Code Camp. The module was written in VB .NET 1.1 and targets DotNetNuke 3.x and above. It also works with DotNetNuke version 4. If you are interested, you can download the code from the CodePlex website: http://www.codeplex.com/codecamp

On Tuesday, I delivered a presentation on Virtual Earth as part of the ongoing Live for You! Webcast Series . I would like to thank those of you who were able to attend. I hope you were able to get a sense of just how powerful Virtual Earth really is. For those of you who could not attend, its focus was to explore the developer capabilities of Virtual Earth to build highly informative and interactive...

I received a couple of good questions from Ian after the webcast Tuesday that I think are relevent to the entire community. Here you go: 1. What, if any, software is required (a) on the client (i.e. browsing) computer, and (b) on the hosting computer, in order to use Live Search. Can it be used by an Apple client computer? Can it be used on a Unix-based host? a. Client – for Live.com we’ve made an...

The news you have heard is correct - Vista has RTM-ed (Release(d) To Manufacturing - essentially meaning it has shipped)! I was sitting in a classroom at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond when the news came in. The entire group I was with just spontaneously applauded - it was a great (and historic) moment. :) Jim Allchin spilled the beans earlier today on his blog . In case you haven't heard, we will...