Daily Archives: April 10, 2004

Microsoft Mobile PC

Just Rambling

I hung out with the tabletpc folks on Thursday at Microsoft and was lucky enough to hitch a ride back to Seattle with Geetesh ________. Geetesh is on the Mobile PC team. I thought at first that this meant handhelds but in fact it just means Notebooks/Laptops – though not Tablets. Apparently, there was a Microsoft application in the past (similar to Journal) called Notebook, so they couldn’t use the name again.

So remember, with Microsoft “Mobile PC” = notebooks/laptops.

Just thought it was notable.

Okay, back upstairs to continue the installation of XPSP2 (with latest lonestar bits) on my tablet…

AngryCoder threatens to switch to VB.NET just for Edit & Continue – will he give up Web Development, too?

dotNET

If you have spent any time on Jonathan Goodyear’s www.angrycoder.com site, you will know that he has never been shy about how he feels about VB.NET (well, sometimes I think he targets the VB developers, not just the language). So in his ASP.NETPro Mag commentary on the lack of Edit & Continue in ASP.NET 2.0 (yes, E&C will only be in Windows Forms!) it is amazing to hear him say (well, see him write…) :

I think that omitting Edit-and-Continue from VS 2005 would be a colossal miscalculation that Microsoft will regret. The future will validate this obvious prediction. Edit-and-Continue is so important to me, that I plan to make VB.NET my preferred development language if C# does not support it (the future of that is hopeful, but still unknown). Those who are familiar with my history of commentary regarding C# vs. VB.NET can appreciate just how big a move that would be for me. If ASP.NET doesn’t support Edit-and-Continue, we’re back at square one.

I don’t really think Jonathan will EVER give up web development of course…