August 2004 - Posts

Holiday and article on .NET FX 2.0
29 August 04 10:45 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So you may be here looking for an article I had posted on my advice for ISVs in regard to Longhorn and .NET FX 2.0 commitments. I have removed the article from the Internet ether for the time being so I can put more thought into it. I need to clean up Read More...

Wow - I'm smitten with the Class Designer in Visual Studio 2005
26 August 04 05:30 PM | jvast | 4 Comments   

I've been in a all day walk-through of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. I'm not sure which parts I should be talking about. Since I come mostly from an architecture background - I think I'm mostly taken by the Class Designer. I prefered Together in my Read More...

First Ever ISV quarterly briefing coming soon....
26 August 04 05:05 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

We are going to have our first ever ISV quarterly briefing on September 15th. It will be via a webcast so if you can't make it, sign up anyway to get access to the recording link to play at your leisure. http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/salestraining/eventregister.asp?eid=67 Read More...

XP SP2 App compatibility guide and beta for Windows ACT 4.0 coming soon
26 August 04 04:48 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Here is the link to the newly released app compatibility guide for XP SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9300BECF-2DEE-4772-ADD9-AD0EAF89C4A7&displaylang=en Here is the link where information on the beta for ACT 4.0 will Read More...

Egads!! Visual Studio Team System bits at last!?!
26 August 04 02:33 PM | jvast | 3 Comments   

Check out Rick LaPlante's blog entry on the availability of the latest Community Tech preview. Looks like this weekend will a busy one for the MSDN download servers. Of course we've changed the name to Visual Studio Beta 1 Refresh, if you're trying to Read More...

Very cool WSE 2.0 Tool and Webcast announcement
25 August 04 04:18 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Simon threw out a very cool new tool to work with WSE2. Thanks Simon!! I have to schedule a Live Meeting on WSE 2 for the early September. It will be a short 30 minute deep dive, with a trailing 15 minutes for questions on WSE. I'll post a link here for Read More...

What's next for IE - wait IE is not really dead?!?
19 August 04 11:24 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

In my early days at an ISP in Utah many moons ago; we distributed everything you needed to get connected to the internet on a single 1.44MB diskette. Then in '95 we had to span it across (2) 1.44MB diskettes. Then in late '96 we switched browsers from Read More...

.NET FX 1.1 SP1 update and a tidbit on XP SP2
19 August 04 10:52 AM | jvast | 9 Comments   

As many of you may have noticed the Tech preview of .NET FX 1.1 SP1 is no longer available via MSDN. Expect a final RTM soon! As always, I will post the link here. When it appears, it will show up here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/sptechpreview/ Read More...

Poor forgotten IPC mechanisms - ala semaphores, pipes and queues - just musings.....
13 August 04 05:30 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

I was checking to make sure I hadn't messed up my previous post, ie misspellings or just plain missing words... I got to thinking about the good old days when IPC was important, it was my mention of MSMQ that got me thinking. Why do developers avoid message Read More...

ISV Community Days in the NW
13 August 04 04:09 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Developers and PMs, Come join us at the ISV Community Days in Seattle and in Portland this fall. We're going to have a day each focused on Connected Systems and Windows Server 2003. Hit the Connected Systems day if you want to learn about using SOA in Read More...

A little about me
12 August 04 02:43 PM | jvast | 4 Comments   

I should explain my by-line a bit and introduce myself into the blog-sphere. I'm probably not your typical MS employee in that my entire life has been spent developing and architecting on non-MS platforms. I actually started work life as a Mainframe system Read More...

Yukon Ascend Phase II and Windows Server 2003 Ascend to begin soon
12 August 04 02:10 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Well, it looks like Yukon Ascend Phase II is beginning. I'm starting to see some of my nominated ISVs being sent their acceptance letters. I attended the Phase I Ascend program and the training and labs were excellent. I'm also spinning up Windows Server Read More...