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Luke Hoban - C# Express PM is blogging

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:32 PM by danielfe
Luke Hoban, the guy who wrote this , has started blogging. If you want to know what's going on with C# Express, you'll definitely want to subscribe to Luke's blog... Luke talks about the concept behind starter kits and about the C# RSS Screensaver . As Read More...
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Visual Studio Beta 1/Express News

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 12:37 AM by danielfe
There's been lots of news coverage on Visual Studio Beta 1, the MSDN relaunch, and of course Express . Soma, the Developer Division VP blogged about Express and the Express contest Our Express blog is up and rolling The ASP.NET Forums have good coverage Read More...
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Visual Studio Beta 1 SDK & Redist now on MSDN

Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 12:24 AM by danielfe
If you're not interested in using Express or if you want to use the tools available in the .NET Framework SDK (ildasm, wincv, etc), you can download the SDKs (and redists) at the locations provided below: .NET Framework 2.0 SDK betas (by proc type) .NET Read More...
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Summer of Express Contest

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:27 AM by danielfe
In coordination with the launch of the Express products , I'm “Super-Excited”™ to announce the Summer of Express Contest on Channel9 !!! It's time to break out the hot dogs and belt out some code as the good folks at Channel9 our hosting Read More...
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C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:21 AM by danielfe
RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit in C# Express One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find Read More...
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MSDN Product Feedback Center and Personalization Engine

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:53 AM by danielfe
MSDN has some huge announcements for Beta 1 as Kent , Sara , and Duncan (all burning the midnight oil to make this happen BTW) all point out. MSDN Product Feedback Center - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ What is it? The MSDN Product Feedback Read More...
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Microsoft Announces new Express Products!!

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:46 AM by danielfe
In the TechEd Europe keynote today we officially announced the new Express products that are available to download right now: Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition ( download ) Visual C# 2005 Express Edition ( download ) Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition ( Read More...
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Bill Gates to blog?

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 8:11 AM by danielfe
The Seattle Times seems to think so. Eric Rudder is officially our first exec to blog (at least not anonymously) and S. Somasegar , our devtool Corporate VP is in on the action too . I'm trying to think of all the cool things I would want to know about Read More...
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Whiteboard with Anders session on MSDN TV

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:52 PM by danielfe
** Update : Due to technical difficulties with the WMV file, the link for the download has been taken down. Duncan assures me it will be up soon. The Whiteboard with Anders cabana session from TechEd is now will soon be on MSDN TV for download . You'll Read More...
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Hotmail to offer 250MB free storage

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:09 PM by danielfe
Omar blogs about the Hotmail team putting in 80-hour weeks to pull this off and what it all means to you Read More...
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On to TechEd Europe

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:15 PM by danielfe
Scott Nonnenberg , Brian Goldfarb , me, and lots of others are making the trek across the atlantic to TechEd Europe (in Amsterdam) next week. I haven't been to Amsterdam since I was a young pup (~13 years old) and I have a feeling it'll be a slightly Read More...
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Quick information on Generics

Posted Monday, June 21, 2004 7:04 PM by danielfe
Update Jan 7, 2005 : Generics will be CLS Compliant! I've recently received a couple of questions on how generics will be supported across languages so I thought I would point out Julie Lerman's blog entry on the subject of C#, VB, and J# support for Read More...
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What do you want to hear about Java Migration?

Posted Monday, June 21, 2004 6:52 PM by danielfe
I'm giving a talk for TechEd Europe at the end of next week and, while I have a good idea of what I think I need to talk about, I would love to get some advice on what you think would make the session really valuable. Session Title : Migrating MSJVM and Read More...
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Game Developers in Seattle

Posted Friday, June 18, 2004 4:26 PM by danielfe
Meltdown is a Game Developer Conference in Seattle July 27-28th. If you're a game developer writing managed or unmanaged applications, this should be a great conference to attend. Speakers for the VS Track include: Tom Miller on managed Direct X Andy Read More...
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Cool Controls for Windows Forms!

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:25 AM by danielfe
Robert Green blogs about the release of the VB.NET PowerPack. The PowerPack is a set of 7 cool new Windows Forms controls written in Visual Basic.NET. Don't let the “VB“ in the title or your own language bias fool you, you can use these controls Read More...
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C-omega on MS

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:11 AM by danielfe
Source: http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/ C-omega, is “a research language intended to foster new thoughts and ideas about programming languages, Cw (pronounced C-omega) is a combination of what used to be X#/Xen and Polyphonic C#. It's an interesting Read More...
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Delphi to C# conversion tool

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:05 AM by danielfe
Source: http://www.netcoole.com/delphi2cs.htm “Delphi2CS is an assistant tool that converts Delphi code to C#. Delphi2CS creates a new project, converts each file from the original project(.dpr) into the new project(.csproj), and generates a report Read More...
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Mono Beta 2 Announced

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:03 AM by danielfe
Source: http://www.go-mono.com/ “Less than a month after Beta 1 was released, Mono Beta 2 has been released. It includes a C# compiler, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and two stacks of APIs: a Unix, Linux, GNOME, Mono stack Read More...
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JetBrains Resharper releasing June 20th

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:02 AM by danielfe
Resharper announces June 20th release date, opens Early Access Program to all Visual Studio .NET 2003 Users Source: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ "Our early trial users have given us consistently great reports on ReSharper because it provides many Read More...
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Anders Hejlsberg Tour of the Microsoft Museum

Posted Monday, June 14, 2004 12:49 PM by danielfe
Channel9 had video of Anders Hejlsberg touring the Microsoft Museum. Very cool!! Read More...
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Matt Hardman has a blog!

Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 12:37 PM by danielfe
Matt Hardman, the man, the myth, the legend, “Matty”, Hardman the Barbarian, has a blog. Subscribed!!! I've previously blogged about racing toilets, human foosball, and Matty kicking my butt in Dead or Alive. http://blogs.msdn.com/the_hardman Read More...
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Interactive Simulation for Visual Studio .NET Beginners

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:50 PM by danielfe
With the launch of the Java Developer Resource Center , we've added a new way for developers who have never programmed using Visual Studio .NET before to try without installing the product. The simulations, created by Learnit Corp , are ActiveX controls Read More...
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Quick Survey - What's on your Dev Box?

Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:31 PM by danielfe
Dan Mosely from the VSCore team wants to know how many of our developers are using dual processor development (not production) machines. Please respond in the comments: Q1: Are you using a dual processor developer machine today? (Yes/No) Q2: Do you plan Read More...
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Apple ITunes SDK supports C#

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 2:02 PM by danielfe
"Apple's SDK enables Windows developers to write code to control iTunes from other applications. These tools require iTunes 4.5 or later and support several languages, including C++, C# and JavaScript." News Source : http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/34235.html Read More...
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Search eBay Using C#

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:53 AM by danielfe
Jeffrey McManus from eBay writes about some of the cool code samples written in C# to add items, and get search results directly from eBay. Download code sample eBay SDK for Windows Sign up for a (free) developer key Read More...
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Outlook 2003 Confessional

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:18 AM by danielfe
Outlook is my one salvation from sheer chaos. As I've complained before several times before ( here , and here ), I'm pretty busy. Outlook is the shining light that keeps me sane. Having taken an internal course on time management a couple of years ago, Read More...
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Learn How to Program Outlook using C#

Posted Monday, June 07, 2004 10:35 PM by danielfe
Andrew Troelsen wrote a great article on creating an Outlook add-in using C# . Having had to struggle to create my first C# Outlook add-in, I realized how difficult it was to create and that there was little information on MSDN. You should definitely Read More...
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Java Developer Resource Center is Live!

Posted Monday, June 07, 2004 9:43 AM by danielfe
If you're a Java developer who needs to interoperate with, learn about, or migrate to the .NET Framework, MSDN can be a pretty daunting place for information and a lot of the content seems focused on COM to .NET or VB6 to .NET. Well Brian Keller and I Read More...
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Visual Studio Team System Announced!

Posted Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:41 PM by danielfe
[Okay, I'm way, way behind and only starting to slowly unbury] Remember when I said in this post : “I think you can only really start to understand the scope of everything that Microsoft will be offering in Visual Studio 2005 by Beta 1. Until then, Read More...
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