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Reflections on the PDC Day 1 Keynote

Bill Gates gave a pretty typical high level keynote to introduce the keynote this morning. He talked about the past, how far we've come, and how now is the most exciting time, and that we are in most exciting industry. Not that I don't disagree, but I Read More...

From Rainier to Orcas and beyond.

This past 3 days I've spent traveling to and from Redmond to visit with a few of the developer tools teams as part of an Software Design Review (SDR). These are a kind of focus group, with the intention of getting qualitative information from folks about Read More...

Shorthorn Longhorn

So this will cause a few blogs. I have just heard that.... Longhorn slated for 2006. Longhorn server 2007. Winfx, and Avalon are coming to windows xp in 2006. Indigo as well - and on Windows 2003 as well. These are all part of WinFx that is going to be Read More...

Microsoft Business Framework goes into Longhorn/Orcas

MBF is being delayed until Longhorn. Up until reading this , it was my understanding that MBF was planned for a post Whidbey release along with ObjectSpaces. MBF is a pretty big thing scope-wise. I think it is the right thing to do to wait until Longhorn. Read More...

XAML IntelliSence Patch for PDC "Whidbey" & "Longhorn"

Overview The IntelliSense in the PDC bits while editing XAML had problems inside Style elements as well as when completing tags and reformatting. This patch addresses those issues to improve the developer experience. System Requirements PDC '03 release Read More...

.NET 2.0 Whidbey Presentation in Toronto

On December 9th , myself and Dave Lloyd will present an in depth sneak peak of the next release of .NET: Visual Studio .NET 2.0 (code-named "Whidbey"). This should be a really fun presentation but seating is pretty limited. Adam Gallant from Microsoft Read More...

Where is the holistic vision?

Microsoft is needs a holistic view of their platforms and development tools. I didn't see that this week, I doubt any of us will. What I did see was 7 data access techniques in various stages of ready now, coming soon, and coming much later: Use a DataAdapter Read More...

MS Professional Developers Conference...

...here we come. Myself and fellow ObjectSharpies DennisLee and DaveLloyd are heading out Saturday morning for the PDC in L.A. Stay tuned for our perspectives on Whidbey (essentially . NET 2.0 ), Yukon ( SQL Server 2004 ?), and Longhorn (Windows 2005?). Read More...