I discussed this recently with a colleague. I can proudly state that I was right :-) Authoritative answer by Rob Relyea : " zammel ". Very cool, esp. since there is also BAML and CAML ...

Die PDC 2003 verpaßt? Trotzdem interessiert an der Zukunft von .NET? Neugierig auf Whidbey , Yukon , Longhorn , Avalon , Indigo , WinFS , WinFX , ObjectSpaces, Burton ... Dann anmelden für den Microsoft Technical Summit 2004 am 2. und 3....

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Just learned that Ward Cunningham , the inventor of the Wiki , has joined Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. Interesting people we are attracting ...

Don Box says good-bye to (D)COM here and explains why Indigo is the future.

As s.o. from the product team confirmed, the ClickOnce problem that I described in my last entry is specific to the PDC build of Whidbey and will go away in the Beta. So as a workaround, I'll use my Smartphone as a GPRS modem and connect through that...

Today I was building a ClickOnce demo for a conference when I had to find out (bad surprise!) that deployment from a web page (the default "publish.htm" on localhost, e.g., that Whidbey generates) does not work if the machine is not connected to a network...

Just installed a recent build of Lonestar (Tablet PC v.next) on my old Acer Tablet PC. I'm amazed what they did to the TIP and the recognizer! This really improves usability a lot. Also, the new Context Tagging Tool which allows you to attach context...

Thanks to the nice folks from MSDN - they managed to move a lot of blogs (incl. mine) from blogs.gotdotnet.com to blogs.msdn.com, including content. Great work!

Speaking of religions (see my last blog entry): there is another new religion today (at least in parts of the IT world), and it's called "free software" (or "open source software", which practically means the same thing, if we leave out any nitpicking...

" Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists." Read Michael Crichton's " Remarks to the Commonwealth Club ", get the facts and judge for...

A great, happy, and successful 2004 to all of you! Let's make 2004 the year of Whidbey and Yukon :) CU L8er...