Each of the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions have additional goodies as samples. The best goodie of the lot comes with Visual C# Express Edition
RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit -- The Visual C# Express Edition 2005 RSS screen saver is a fully customizable sample application and documentation that shows how you can create a screensaver that rotates through background images and displays content from an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed.
I love it!! And to think I bought one of these a while ago and lamented the lack of support of the .net framework
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It's that time of the month again - a full moon on Friday and the next SDNUG meeting on Thursday.
when: Thursday 1 July, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm (Add to calendar) topics: Automated Software Testing by Veronique Blick. The talk will present the strategy, processes and framework to implement automated testing using Test Complete from AutomatedQA. The presentation doesn't assume in-depth testerknowledge, and will provide an overview of the how dedicatedtesting differs from the tests that a developer would write and execute. Unit Testing with Visual Studio Team System by Troy Magennis This talk will demonstrate the Unit Testing functionality to be released as part of the VSTS Testing Edition. Code First and Test First strategies will be covered. location: AMP Capital Investors, Ground Floor, 50 Bridge Street (The AMP Building), Sydney Pizza and drinks will be provided.
when: Thursday 1 July, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm (Add to calendar)
topics:
Automated Software Testing by Veronique Blick. The talk will present the strategy, processes and framework to implement automated testing using Test Complete from AutomatedQA. The presentation doesn't assume in-depth testerknowledge, and will provide an overview of the how dedicatedtesting differs from the tests that a developer would write and execute. Unit Testing with Visual Studio Team System by Troy Magennis This talk will demonstrate the Unit Testing functionality to be released as part of the VSTS Testing Edition. Code First and Test First strategies will be covered.
Automated Software Testing by Veronique Blick.
The talk will present the strategy, processes and framework to implement automated testing using Test Complete from AutomatedQA. The presentation doesn't assume in-depth testerknowledge, and will provide an overview of the how dedicatedtesting differs from the tests that a developer would write and execute.
Unit Testing with Visual Studio Team System by Troy Magennis
This talk will demonstrate the Unit Testing functionality to be released as part of the VSTS Testing Edition. Code First and Test First strategies will be covered.
location: AMP Capital Investors, Ground Floor, 50 Bridge Street (The AMP Building), Sydney
Pizza and drinks will be provided.
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It's here - VS 2005 Beta was announced at TechEd Europe. The MSDN VS2005 Developer Center is fantastic.
Download Latest BuildsBeta 1 (6/29/2004)May Community Tech Preview (5/1/2004)Express Betas (6/29/2004)
What are you waiting for - Download now!!!!!
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Further to my post yesterday, I have spotted another post from an attendee of the BillG Breakfast - Bernard Oh. Bernard is one of our fantastic Student Ambassadors (SA) from Melbourne.
He has a comprehensive photo gallery from his little trip to Sydney too.
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There has been some fantastic coverage on BillG's visit
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Bill's come & gone. The breakfast went well. I will save my thoughts for another post.
I've been reading comments from some of the folks who were there, such as Nick & Craig. I am so proud of Nick - he got a question in.
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Further to my earlier post about questions to ask BillG, I got a terrific question overnight:
"If Microsoft wish to continue to have partners in the industry, they need to leave room for the partners to make a living as well. With MBS, Microsoft is now directly competing with many of their partners (or former partners), particularly ISV's. ISV's need to feel secure that if they develop an area of software, they won't have it invaded by their own partner if it becomes successful. If Microsoft's partners end up with no room to make their own income, won't they move to partner with other platform vendors that do leave them that room? Also, aren't partners then less likely to trust Microsoft's intentions in joint marketing efforts?"
"If Microsoft wish to continue to have partners in the industry, they need to leave room for the partners to make a living as well. With MBS, Microsoft is now directly competing with many of their partners (or former partners), particularly ISV's.
ISV's need to feel secure that if they develop an area of software, they won't have it invaded by their own partner if it becomes successful.
If Microsoft's partners end up with no room to make their own income, won't they move to partner with other platform vendors that do leave them that room? Also, aren't partners then less likely to trust Microsoft's intentions in joint marketing efforts?"
That's a beauty! A few months back we had a visit by Satya Nadella, who is the Vice President for Microsoft Business Solutions Group. He was asked the same question and his answer was pretty cool. The basic gist of the response was that Microsoft can't do every horizontal & vertical solution and this is where ISVs are so important. The ISVs have the domain knowledge for a particular industry. What MBS is trying to do is provide consistent plumbing layer for ISVs to innovate. There is a good discussion on this topic over at Directions On Microsoft.
BTW, I used to work with Satya many many years ago. His office was across the corridor from me while I was in the Interactive TV group. Ah, those were the days.
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