January 2006 - Posts
Download IE 7 Beta 2 Watch the channel 9 interview with the IE team IE7 Developer Centre on MSDN A couple new articles: using the RSS Feeds API and Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Nice IE7 feature table Send feedback on IE7 to Microsoft her
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Many of you have products written in VB6 and have been pondering if/when/how to go about moving to .NET. Specifically, .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Well, thanks to the folks in our patterns and practices group (check out the rest of their offerings
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Interested in having a look and/or providing feedback on the proposed Windows Vista Log Program for software? Here's the main landing page Grab the document itself here
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Last week I installed the Search Results Clustering toolbar from sandbox.msn.com and I'm lovin' it! Imagine you do a search, and in addition to the normal results you'd expect, you end up getting a bunch of grouped results on the left. I've found it adds
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Canadian ISV's, have we got a deal for you! I'm excited to tell you about a very cool offer that's open to Canadian ISV's who are adopting SQL 2005. The first offer is 10 free technical support hours to help aid in the development of your SQL 2005 based
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The WF team have updated the hands on labs to the latest Beta 2 version (you can download the WF beta 2 here and see my previous post if you're interested in not just WF, but the rest of WinFX as well). Here's the WF main landing page for lots of other
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Got a smart client application that needs to detect the network connection state? Using the .NET Framework 2.0? Then let me introduce you to your new favorite namespace: System.Net.NetworkInformation . System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace provides
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Cool... According to Jeff Beelher's (Jeff's a Lead Program Manager) blog a TFS Release Candidate could show up in February - even "early February". Here's a couple snippets (and the whole entry is here ) "We're planning on releasing our TFS Release Candidate
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I first saw mention of FlyteComm on Rick Segal's blog and this morning saw that Scoble picked it up too ( and had a similar tale to tell ). Head over to the FlyteComm website and click on "Click here to track a random flight". You'll see that it will
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I see my friends over at Rocket Builders have released their annual "Ready to Rocket" 2006 list . There's some great companies on the list. I've had the pleasure of knowing a few of them very well and they are doing some very innovative things. Colligo
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What’s the “big news” today? Today we announced the availability of “go live” licenses for two big components of “WinFX”. Those components being Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows WorkFlow Foundation. The Go Live license permits you to deploy
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