Monthly Archives: March 2006

Installation order for February CTP of WinFX

Indigo

The January CTP install notes recommend installing the WinFX components before VS2005, but according to Michele Leroux Bustamante, who has done a LOT of work with WCF, if you are working with the newer (non go-live) February CTP  release, it’s okay to install all of theWinFX ontop of VS2005. This is great to know because I can store a copy of a VPC with WinXp and VS2005 already installed, then use it when testing new WinFX bits as they are released.

See Michele’s blog post for links and installation order.



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Confusion over “no TabletPC version” for Vista

Tablet

My husband read the CNN article this morning about the Windows Vista delay. Reading “Unlike the current Windows XP, there will be no versions designed specifically for advanced 64-bit computing, multimedia computers or Tablet PCs” he interpreted that as no TabletPC capability for Vista, which is not true at all. In fact, he knows that I am using Vista on a tablet, but thought that it was going to be removed.

TabletPC functionality is built into Vista and will not be separate. That’s all this means.

I wonder how many others will misinterpret that sentence?

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Atlas and WCF

Indigo

It seems like just yesterday that I was asking around about how Atlas interacts with WS-Security and other WS* compliant web services created using tools like WSE or WCF. And woudntchaknowit! The Atlas version that was released just yesterday has WCF extensions built right in for seamless communication with WCF.

Oddly, I came across the link on the Atlas site today not knowing that it wasa brand spanking new page, and therefore was feeling  a bit embarrassed that I had completely missed this before! 🙂

It wasn’ until I saw Steve Maine’s post that I realized it hadn’t been up there for long!

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MSDN Developer Community Champions – See their alter-egos

dotNET

I was just on the MSDN Speakers page to grab a pic of Burlington based Susan Wisowaty who is one of the MSDN DCC’s and noticed something really fun that they have done to the site.

All of the DCCs have straight photos – serious and wearing their Microsoft shirts. But when you hover the mouse over the pictures, you see a real picture of that person. Bernard Wong competing with the sun in an ultra-bright t-shirt (you can always pick him out in a crowd!) ; Susan in her moto-cross gear :-), Russ Fustino in his tool-man garb, Rory Blyth being, well, Rory; and more. It’s really fun since I know a bunch of these folks. Go check it out!

Susan will be presenting on Avalon (WPF) at our July 17th Vermont.NET meeting. Before she worked for Microsoft, she showed up at meetings in her leathers more than once!

Lots of blogs coming from Mix

Just Rambling

Between the weblogs.asp.net feed and a variety of other individual feeds that I am subscribed to, I’m getting lots of good info streaming in from Mix.

My favorite comment so far was by Andrew Stopford who noted that everyone’s reading name badges as they pass each other (“do I know him?” “do I know her?” “should I?”) but that Tim O’Reilly read his badge but kept walking. Heck, I would have expected the same. Though the day Bill Gates stops on the stairway to say “Hey, Julie! I’ve been hoping to meet you someday!” is the day that I can say “my work here’s been done” and go back to being a potter and pursue my other life dream at the same time. 😉

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Support Team Hansleman in a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association

Community Cheerleading

In addition to sharing all of the great computer and programming knowledge that breeds in his amazing brain, Scott Hanselman has always been very “out” about his diabetes in an effort to share his lessons, spread what knowedge he can and aid in pushing the envelope with respect to the technology that exists for those with diabetes.

Now Scott, his wife and Team Hanselman are walking in a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. There are a lot of reasons to support him in this, whether it’s in thanks for all that he has done for your own personal programming skills, his contributons to the .NET community, because Scott’s just a great guy or even just to support a really good cause.

Read more on Scott’s blog and find out how to help Team Hanselman acheive their goal of raising $10,000.

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What was I doing again?

Just Rambling

Has this ever happened to you? An idea pops into your head and you open up your web browser to check it out. But because the home page of your web browser is pointed to a news website, the minute you see the home page filled with news (good and bad) you completely forgot what it was that you had meant to look up only one second ago.

This happens to me way too often.

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