Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in Programming on Feb 25th, 2005
OK, I admit the title of this post is a bit misleading. The SQL Server 2005 Express edition will be free. The other versions are going to cost you $$$.
The important thing, from my perspective, is that Microsoft has started to reveal prices for products that are being released later this year.
Tom Rizzo, SQL [...]
Posted in General on Feb 21st, 2005
Do you ever get the feeling that some big corporations have lost touch with their customers? Sure you do. Today’s case - Adobe. They’re a big corporation and one that holds their own against the other giants the software world. They’ve certainly found a profitable niche in the software business.
But what’s with the load times [...]
Posted in Conference on Feb 17th, 2005
I have been on ‘the podium‘ innumerable times, as a speaker, teacher and panelist. I’ve also sat in the audience and watched my share of interesting talks, mediocre presenters, exhilarating speakers, boring script readers and painful, disastrous presentations. I once watched a conference speaker start their talk with 200 + people in the room and [...]
Posted in General on Feb 17th, 2005
Alright, this is new to me. I went to the Microsoft download site to get the latest anti-spyware beta. Here is the screenshot.
That’s right, there is no choice but to click the continue button. I suspect this might scare off a few people who are using pirated copies of Windows. If you click the continue [...]
Posted in .NET on Feb 16th, 2005
I tried to set up a test machine today. During the install of Office 2003 the install stated that it couldn’t find file yh561403.cab. Sure enough, it’s not on my dvd. Check an older version of the DVD and it installed correctly. Lucky I keep a backup set of the DVDs.
The disc is December 2004 [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Feb 10th, 2005
Try to pin down a price for VSTS from a Microsoft employee is impossible. The latest news is that a firm price will be announced in March 2005.
The bad news is that MSDN subscriptions are going to change and if you want VSTS it is going to cost you more $$$. How much more? [...]
Posted in Conference on Feb 9th, 2005
Coffee Break with Richard Hale Shaw (I don’t know what happened to your coffee)
Julia and Yuki - Happy .NET developers
Speaker Lounge - Richard Hundhausen( on phone), Ken Getz, Bill Vaughn
Sushi Dinner – Walt Ritscher, Andrew Brust, Brian Schmitt, Chris Kinsman, Julia Lerman, Yukiko Ito
Laptop frenzy before their presentations.
Speaker Lounge - Rob Howard teaching Richard Hundhausen [...]
Posted in General on Feb 9th, 2005
Want a map that you can drag with your mouse? Google Maps How about a map that that plots business from Google Local? Google Maps
Another interesting application from the Google labs. http://www.google.com/help/faq_maps.html.
Here’s a map of my locale.
Posted in .NET, Conference on Feb 4th, 2005
Next week I am going to be down in San Francisco at VSLive. Its going to be a busy week for me. I’m giving three talks and am on at least one panel. I wrote about the sessions I’m giving in this blog entry last year. I’m also meeting with a few of my buddies [...]
Posted in .NET on Feb 4th, 2005
I was reading Shawn’s comments and found an answer that explains another problem with the VS IDE. The trouble comes when creating a custom user control and adding it to a test form. If you modify the code in the user control and then there is a problem with the next build of your application [...]