Jack Gudenkauf (JackG) WebLog

Released to the internal web (RTW) anyway J Much of my delay in blogging has been because I’ve been busy with trying to keep that “work life balance” and something had to give. J In a couple previous posts, I un-characteristically wrote in a style...

Following on a previous post, I thought I would talk a bit more on my teams charter, contributions to Microsoft, and some of my areas of responsibility. TSG Team Charter The Technical Strategy Group (TSG) works to capture and influence Business...

I will be blogging more on the subject of Innovation @ Microsoft as well as how our Technical Strategy Group supports innovation within (and external partnerships) Microsoft. This post follows my previous article on the subject of the long standing...

In my last post I mentioned my new role in the Microsoft Technical Strategy group and the promise of more on the subject. So here is some late breaking news, hot of the press, on one of our programs – ThinkWeek . What is ThinkWeek? As borrowed...

Where have you been? Assuming I haven’t lost all my readers by now, due to my silence, this seems to be a reasonable question. Does anyone out there watch “ Lost ”? I ended up getting hooked in the beginning and now I can’t...

Delivering on the earlier promise , here are some links to Silverlight v2. Silverlight home page Silverlight 2 Launch page Dowload ScottGu's blog has the details you have come to expect. Cool SL2 page: HardRock Memorabilia site . Note...

In some previous posts ( Out of Process IPC/TCP Remoting code , .Net Remoting (AppDomains, Out of Process, Two Way, etc.. ) ) I showed some sample code using .Net remoting over a process boundary. As a result, I received a few questions about the process...

I wanted to thank all the ISV's, VAR's, and SI's I have spoken with and those who have replied to my requests for soliciting feedback on Client Application Development (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) ). This...

Some time ago I wrote a post about the announced Silverlight 2 product . While I received a number of favorable comments, I also received some skepticism. We have been working hard on delivering on our goals in the form of providing an amazing media...

Earlier I posted a link to the announcement on ScottGu's blog about the framework source availiability for debugging. I wanted to follow-up with my experience using the reference source. I found the installation instructions on "Configuring Visual...

In this post I will be showing sample code (also found on our CodePlex site ) as well as an execution sequence diagram. I will show sample code addressing some frequently asked questions; A Host calling AddIn services, AddIns calling (aka. Automation...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced a significant technology advancement in Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform development. This announcement was significant on many levels from my perspective. It solidifies (beyond SL 1) the ability to use...

After all, our job is to make your life easier. I have received a *lot* of requests for a tool that can generate the Add-In pipeline segments. Ever since we mistakenly left comments in our MSDN articles code about the pipeline source being machine generated...

We just posted a solution to consider for the F.A.Q. of how to enable isolatable WinForms applications. Check out this link . This solution may be considered relative to my previous post and subsequent comments. Note that WPF startup performance costs...

It's official. We have released to manufacturing. I am personaly very excited about the Add-in addtions to the BCL, but you can also find over 250 new features in this release (e.g., LINQ). Check out the new release here .

Hola! I just returned from TechEd 2007 held in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is a beautiful city with incredible new and old architecture. The people are very friendly and even I was able to navigate the clean public transportation systems. Yes, I am...

TechEd is shaping up to be a huge event in part due to the fact that we will not have a PDC this year. Jesse and I will be doing a presentation on the Add-in model, and participating in a chalk talk among other things. If you have an opportunity to attend...

We have modified the Soapbox video by moving the WPF on BCL Add-in model demo to the start of the video and we have posted this updated video to Channel 9 . The video will also be on the Channel 9 home page for a while. From James, “Several weeks back...

Check out http://www.wevegottaguy.com/ and see if you recognize that handsome guy representing the Small Business Specialists ;-) The videos on the right hand side are pretty darn funny. Pure Improve! It was a pleasure working with these skilled actors...

Recently I was speaking to a group of ISV's and Enterprise partners and as we spoke about the continued transparency of Microsoft, I vaguely mentioned more is coming. Well, here it is. ScottGu's blog post goes into the details of opening up our framework...

Visual Studio (VS) 2008 and .Net 3.5, code named “Orcas”, will be released in the near future. This release includes a number of new features and bug fixes. The release includes new major features such as LINQ , Cider (The VS WPF designer), “ Crossbow...

Today we announced the release of Silverlight 1.0. Here is a link to a previous post on the product. Check out the Silverlight web site for more. At the very least check out the Halo 3 trailer - Very cool!

Last year, I did a webcast when I was attending an SI (Solution/System Integrator) Architect conference in Paris. Ah, Paris in the spring, love the Champs-Elysees and the Aviation club in particular. The webcast was done as part of an ISV webcast series...

Another Paris Hilton, Pam Anderson, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, or Political video? Nope, Sorry. All business on this site. I was recently interviewed by James Vastbinder, an ISV Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft. We discussed the...

Here is the MSDN help link for what's new in WPF 3.5 regarding support for Add-In's .