Brad Marsh has a good post on Windows 2008 firewall settings
Angus McDonald discusses new VB9 stuff
Sam Fu considers the Application Domain
Summer Hu has stacks of stuff, here's an example talking about System.AddIn
Alan Lee talks about Windows Server 2008 RC0
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Scott Guthrie has announced the release of source code for some of the .NET framework libraries. This is fulfilling his promise from October last year.
Shawn Burke has a detailed post on how to set up debugging in Visual Studio 2008.
Scott Hanselman has a few pointers on what to expect.
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Elcom is all 2008. The Elcom web site is now running on a Windows 2008 Server, with SQL Server 2008 as the back-end and Community Manager.NET completely recompiled under Visual Studio 2008 (targeting the 3.5 Framework) delivering the content. Community Manager.NET is Elcom’s content management system (CMS), which we have now re-compiled, tested and released on the .NET 3.5 Framework. Now...
I've mentioned this before, but here's a link to the main Developer Centre for the Microsoft Sync Framework, the aim of which is to keep offline apps in sync with services and devices. The CTP1 Refresh was released in mid December last year and added RSS support amongst other things.
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There’s been a number of predictions made about technology for 2008, and of course a list of disappointments for the past year. Considering that no ones really takes any of them very seriously, then why not add my own :-) Here’s my prediction:2008 will be the year that Office Business Applications go mainstream*. And by Office Business Applications (OBAs) I’m interested...
Microsoft Research has a nice idea coming with its Pex dynamic unit test creation project. It aims to automatically generate unit tests based on your current code being developed. It sounds pretty cool. But it begs the following parody 'tip'. So, here's a great idea for developing your own massive software empire: 1. Start with the seed of an idea 2. Start writing simple code 3...
Microsoft has announced that CRM 4.0 is now being shipped. The met their Q4 promise, but the release parties don't start until March – what's up with that? Just shows how much work goes into a release party these days I guess.
(via Mary Jo)
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You all know by now that the following service packs are out:
Office 2007 SP1
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1
(Note, for MOSS installs you must install WSS SP1 before MOSS SP1)
Confused about WSS and MOSS – check this out for clarification.
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Jeff Alexander points us to the Australian portal for Windows Server 2008. Lots of great links from it, including forums and webcasts, but why do they open in oddly sized browser windows?
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I was lucky enough to meet Doug Turnure last week. He's a Developer Evangelist from Atlanta (USA), who was down under visiting the Aussie DEs. Doug has set up .Net University, and blogs here about the first set of courses offered. I've checked out the WF one so far – I recommend it.
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