Published May 16th, 2007
in Microsoft, Programming and Tech News.
Microsoft has recently released Silverlight 1.0, a .NET-based competitor to Adobe’s Flash animation product.
This is an interesting strategic move as Microsoft is moving into what is clearly established territory for the Flash brand. Microsoft is extending the reach of the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF) to the web with a version being called WPF/E […]
Published May 5th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Microsoft and Tech News.
Last week (while I was too busy watching playoff hockey to post), Microsoft announced that the Beta 3 version of Windows Server “Longhorn” complete with the brand spankin’ new IIS 7.0 would be offered with a “Go-Live” license. This means that the new version can legally be deployed in a production environment prior to […]
Published April 18th, 2007
in Development, Microsoft and Security.
I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup. The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:
To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS. Though it is possible […]
Published March 22nd, 2007
in Microsoft, Open Source and Web 2.0.
This week Microsoft announced yet another foray into the Open-Source arena. The company will be assigning ASP.NET team member Bertrand LeRoy to be the company’s liaison to the OpenAjax Alliance starting tomorrow. According to a post on Scott Guthrie’s blog, one of Bertrand’s focuses will be to ensure that Microsoft’s AJAX technologies (Library & […]
Published January 31st, 2007
in Microsoft and Tech News.
What kind of a geek would I be if I didn’t at least mention that Microsoft launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 this past Monday. There, I said it. If you want to learn more, listen to Bill.
Published January 28th, 2007
in Development, Internet, Microsoft and Web 2.0.
This past week marked the official launch of Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX libraries for the .NET platform (formerly “Atlas”). The uptake on this new implementation of a not-so-new technology has been moderate, with the folks who really want to use .NET to target a Web 2.0 solution being the most enthusiastic.
AJAX in and of […]
Microsoft has recently released an updated version of its XML Notepad. This is a fairly basic tool which provides a tree interface to edit XML documents which is easier to understand and work with than hacking through the file using Notepad or even Visual Studio.The interface takes a bit of getting used […]
With much less fanfare than the previous version Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET framework earlier this month at the TechEd Europe developers conference in Barcelona. The reason for the low-key launch? This release is a renamed, repackaged version of .NET Framework 2.0 with the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF, […]
Published April 17th, 2005
in Development and Microsoft.
Though I’m sure this is not the first post on the subject, the VS 2005 Developer Center has launched the go-live licenses for Visual Studio 2005 B2. MSDN Subscribers can download the full version of Visual Studio 2005. For those who may not have an MSDN subscription, Beta 2 versions of all […]