Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

July 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 9:44 PM

Office 2003 Service Pack 1 Released

Looks like we released Office 2003 SP1 today on the Office Update site . If you’d prefer, you can download it directly from the Download Center . And, if you’d like to know what has been changed or fixed, check out KB article 842532 . According
Posted by mswanson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 9:23 PM

Nostalgia

My wife, Elizabeth, was cleaning out one of our file cabinets the other day and ran across a bunch of my old computer stuff. I usually dispose of outdated hardware and software after a few years, so I was surprised to see these things lying around. Just
Posted by mswanson | 6 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, July 23, 2004 3:42 PM

Pat Helland on Metropolis: Envisioning the Service-Oriented Enterprise

One of the more interesting presentations I attended at our annual Microsoft Global Briefing in Atlanta was a presentation by Pat Helland on Metropolis: Envisioning the Service-Oriented Enterprise . Pat is an Architect in the Architecture Strategy Team
Posted by mswanson | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, July 23, 2004 1:57 PM

Lookout Available for Download

I must have missed this announcement while I was at our annual Microsoft Global Briefing event in Atlanta this past week, but we have made Lookout available for download . From the site: Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, files, and desktop
Posted by mswanson | 5 Comments
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:14 PM

Doom 3 GOLD Release

I’ve been waiting and waiting (and waiting some more) for the release of id Software ’s Doom 3 and Valve Software ’s Half-Life 2 . As a matter of fact, I’ve put off ordering my new machine until the first of these was released. Well, Todd Hollenshead
Posted by mswanson | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:54 AM

Refactoring C# in Visual Studio .NET 2005

MSDN has posted a good article on Refactoring C# Code Using Visual Studio 2005 that introduces the concept of refactoring and covers many of the techniques that are supported in the new IDE. This is a perfect time to plug Martin Fowler ’s excellent
Posted by mswanson | 4 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, July 09, 2004 8:38 AM

Portable Media Center Products Now Available for Pre-Order

Our cool new Portable Media Center devices are now available for pre-order through Amazon.com . Cool stuff!
Posted by mswanson | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:18 PM

.NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Technical Preview

The Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Center has posted a .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Technical Preview that includes downloadable versions of upcoming service packs for both the .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1. It should go without saying, but because
Posted by mswanson | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:17 PM

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Installation Problem

I was trying to install Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 on my laptop over the holiday, and I immediately received an error that said I needed to remove "Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites - English". At various times, this laptop has had the PDC release
Posted by mswanson | 14 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:51 PM

Safely Installing (and Slipstreaming) Windows XP

This past weekend, I performed the biannual ritual of backing up my home computer, reformatting it, and reinstalling just those applications that I actually need. Of course, I'll try my best not to install too many add-ons or trialware applications for
Posted by mswanson | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:02 AM

DVD ISO for Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 Now Available on MSDN

The DVD ISO file (3.50 GB) for Visual Studio .NET 2005 Enterprise Architect Beta 1 is now available for download at MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Similar to the CD ISO releases last week, the download is available for the following subscriber levels : MSDN
Posted by mswanson | 4 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, July 02, 2004 9:08 AM

MSDN TV: Build a VS.NET-Hosted Tool Window for Reading Blogs

In this episode of MSDN TV, Craig Skibo uses the Visual Studio .NET 2003 automation model to build a tool window hosted within Visual Studio that allows you to read blog postings. Even if you’re not interested in reading blogs within VS.NET, this
Posted by mswanson | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:03 PM

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 Available for Download

Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1 and related tools have been posted for download at MSDN Subscriber Downloads . The downloads are available for the following subscriber levels : MSDN Universal, MSDN Enterprise, MSDN Professional, MSDN Academic Alliance,
Posted by mswanson | 7 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:23 AM

Summary of James Newkirk on Unit Testing

James Newkirk (of NUnit fame) gave a presentation at Tech·Ed Europe about the integration of unit testing into the software development lifecycle. Benjamin Mitchell took some good notes and posted them to his blog for those of us who couldn’t
Posted by mswanson | 0 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker