Scott has announced the ASP.NET Wiki Beta.
Looks like a good resource. Publishing guidelines are here.
(via Computer Zen)
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February 9, 2008
ASP.NET Wiki
09February
February 3, 2008
MSDN Code Gallery – a great resource
03February
Microsoft Code GalleryOne of things I found myself saying when going through the excellent How Do I videos is: Where's the code? Here's the answer.Thanks Microsoft. (via Beth Massi and Soma) Also check out wOOdy's Visual FoxPro code snippets. Complaints I don't usually like to complain when something good like this comes out, but gee I wish Microsoft could improve the whole user...
February 3, 2008
Vista SP1 is imminent
Supposedly Vista SP1 will be released next week, perhaps even on Monday 4 Feb.
Technorati Tags: Vista, SP1
February 2, 2008
CLARITY: VSTS, VSTO, VSTA, VSX
02February
Seems like Microsoft is having a V Day, every day. Here's a run down of the main V technologies/tools: VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) Firstly, Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2008 (the current version) is Microsoft's IDE for building .NET based applications, be they Web, Desktop, Device or Microsoft Office based. Visual Studio comes in a number of different versions, grouped into three...
February 1, 2008
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44B
01February
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6B.
The most interesting thing for me: a guy at work told me this last week (and named the $ figure correctly). Being the well informed chap I am :-) I told him he was mistaken. Come Monday, after apologising to him for my lack of faith, I'll be wanting to know how he knew…
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo, Pocket money
January 31, 2008
Visual Studio 2008 Product comparison
31January
Rob Caron has the goods, pointing to this MSDN article that compares the VS2008 range. The MSDN page is a good summary and includes links to other areas, such as this VSTO overview.
Technorati Tags: VS2008 comparison, Rob Caron, VSTO
January 21, 2008
Chris Sainty on LINQ to SQL
21January
Chris Sainty has a series of excellent posts on LINQ to SQL.
Start here, and the just subscribe to his blog for the updates (11 of them so far if you include his post on Extension Methods).
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January 21, 2008
VBA to die?
Heh – here's how to get yourself mentioned in the VSTO blog – just read too much into a product release and blog about it. People love these kinds of rumours, especially when they talk about a software company turning their back on long standing clients. Always gets attention. Thankfully this load of hokum about VBA being discontinued is not true. The VSTO blog clears it up. To be...
January 21, 2008
Microsoft office space allocation
One of the Exchange team members gives a quick run down of how office seating is allocated at Microsoft. They have a bit of a problem with too many staff at present, so seating is at a premium. The first comment (by Brian G) on the post gives a suggestion as to how it could be solved. Classic.
(via Joe Wilcox)
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, office space, seating
January 18, 2008
ELCOM: More on Windows 2008, SQL 2008, VS 2008
18January
Earlier this week I mentioned Elcom had moved everything over to 2008 (that is, our product – Community Manager.NET – is now targeting .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008, and our site is running on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 on the back end). Initial thoughts were that the site was running a bit quicker. Turns out we were wrong. The site is actually running a lot quicker...