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January 2004 - Posts

How do you pronounce "XAML"?

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:32 PM by frankpr
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 ... Read More...
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Technical Summit 2004 - be prepared!

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 9:31 AM by frankpr
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. März Read More...
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Longhorn Developer FAQ

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 9:14 AM by frankpr
... is available here . Read More...
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Wiki inventor joined Microsoft

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:45 AM by frankpr
Just learned that Ward Cunningham , the inventor of the Wiki , has joined Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. Interesting people we are attracting ... Read More...
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COM isn't (Don's) love anymore ...

Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:09 PM by frankpr
Don Box says good-bye to (D)COM here and explains why Indigo is the future. Read More...
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ClickOnce trouble explained

Posted Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:30 AM by frankpr
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 Read More...
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ClickOnce trouble when offline

Posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:29 PM by frankpr
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. Read More...
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Trying out Lonestar

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:34 AM by frankpr
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 Read More...
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Content moved from blogs.gotdotnet.com

Posted Monday, January 12, 2004 9:50 PM by frankpr
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! Read More...
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Free as in "puppy"

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:48 PM by frankpr
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 Read More...
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Environmentalism -the new religion

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:32 AM by frankpr
" 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 yourself. Read More...
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Happy New Year!

Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 8:50 PM by frankpr
A great, happy, and successful 2004 to all of you! Let's make 2004 the year of Whidbey and Yukon :) CU L8er... Read More...
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