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More interesting information to come out of this weeks PDC include more information on Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF which was formerly known as Avalon. The WPF development tool will use cross-platform standards, so you can use them to write normal apps that will run on different platforms or even Web-based apps with multiple browser support. Even as it steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for Mac OS X and the Web, ...
This is a recurring theme from a number of PDC 05 attendees. I think the answer is two fold : The first one can be found at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/w... The second is that vNext BizTalk 2004 must be a different beast offering more on top of what now is offered. The designers must be made more friendly (anyone who attended the BizTalk 2004 futres will have seen a glimpse of that), the toolset be increased ...
From Microsoft's website Overview Windows® Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft® WinFX® name space (System.Workflow), an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available (currently as Beta) in both client and server versions of Windows and it includes support for both system workflow and human workflow. ...
I was skimming the Bill Gates PDC keynotes video and saw an extremely cool Vista feature. You can actually plug in USB thumb drives and let Windows (via a program called SuperFetch) use them as if they are physical ram upgrades. So if your system has 512 megs of ram and you need an extra 512megs, just plug in your 512meg flash drive and BAM! You got it! (I'm sure its not as fast as real ram, but it has to be faster than writing to disk). /me claps ...
Just left the Keynote for today. And I’ve finally found something at this PDC that I’m really excited about. Yes, Monad is a great shell. Expression looks fantastic, and I hope that the designer types will love it. Office 12 is the office system we’ve been waiting for since 2000. Windows Vista is very flashy, but while flash is pretty it doesn’t help me do my job (I know there’s a lot in Vista other than just flash). And, of course, I want Visual Studio 2005. But I’ve ...
Another exciting announcement to come out of the PDC is the introduction of Windows Workflow Foundation or WWF (not to be confused with a bunch of big bloke in tights getting all snarly) So what is a 'workflow?' It is not always possible to completely automate a process in code, often a point in a process will require interaction from a human, device or perhaps even another system. A workflow is the steps in a path a of process that takes into account points where interactions take place. An obvious ...
The atmosphere was electric, charged by the thumping of rock/rap and dance music. The audience sat with anticipation as they waited for the Keynote to start. The lights dimmed and a hushed silence swepted across the audience, as we where now only seconds away from the entrance of the man himself. Bill Gates entered with a thunderous applause from the awaiting audience, the PDC had now official started. Check out the KeyNote online at PDC 2005 KeyNote Bill gave a quick history lesson, where we were ...
Gadgets are mini data driven applications that can reside on the new Windows Vista SideBar and SideShow (the new Auxiliary display technology of Windows Vista). If you dell exited about gadgets, check out the new Microsoft gadgets portal with code samples, ideas, blogs and more gadgets related information. ...
Finally, we can talk about it publicly – Windows Workflow Foundation (formally known WinOE) Beta 1 is out. You can download the bits, hands on labs and get more information in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/w... ...
When it rains it pours! Microsoft has also made available
its website dedicated to “gadgets” that will work in the Windows Vista sidebar as well as
start.com and Windows
SidesShow.
Well, this is certainly the Office 12 and Vista PDC. Enough has been said about Vista everywhere else, but the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon) is interesting. It’s going to change the way we build UI’s for desktop apps for years to come. And those pesky designers are going to have quite a bit more to do with it. Fortunately, they’ve got some cool tools to help them out and to help Designers and Developers work together ...
Bill Evjen recently mentioned this in his blog from PDC. Using a USB memory stick will allow Vista to add it to the larger pool of available memory for the computer! Wow. Wow is right... imagine being able to stick a 2 gig USB drive in your machine and have it automatically increase your overall memory pool! I think that's pretty awesome, but... I am concerned about the impact speed will have on this... USB drives will have to get a hell of a lot faster, won't they? Or am I missing something obvious ...
Want to understand the magnitude of the Vista platform?Want to watch really cool demos of many Vista technologies?I really, really (did I say really?) recommend watching the keynote from the PDC. It's a 3:30 web cast featuring great information to Windows Vista and Office 12 technologies. You will learn about key technologies as Atlas, InfoCards, WCF, WPF, WPF/E, Peer to Peer and much more.If you have the time, try watch it all, but if you are really short on time I tried to mark a few important ...
Word is the build of Vista being given out at the PDC is 5219. And even though the build is labelled as Beta 2, it is not the official beta 2 build. This is reported to be just a pre-beta 2 build. You can read more about it
here.
Today Microsoft released the long awaited Windows Workflow Foundation at PDC. You can get all the details from the Windows Vista Development Center for Workflow. Microsoft’s awesome new Windows Workflow Community Site is located at http://www.windowsworkflow.... WinWF will provide a framework for building and hosting workflows inside Windows. It will be part of the WinXF namespace along with Windows Communication Foundation (Indiago) and Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon). The Beta Code ...
[via Stefan Gossner] September 13, 2005 Live webcast starts at 8:30 A.M. Pacific In a live keynote from Los Angeles at the world’s premier event for software developers, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveils the next generation of software application opportunities, featuring important technical previews of the next version of Microsoft Office, code-named "Office 12," and Microsoft Windows Vista, formerly code-named "Longhorn." http://www.microsoft.com/ev... ...
After Bill Gates spoke, Jim Allchin came out and gave a presentation geared at developers with the promise of showing lots of code (which was done by Don Box and company). Here are some of the highlights from Jim's presentation: First Jim showed everyone an IBM computer from the Microsoft museum with Windows 1.03 loaded. He then showed us the OS booting up and then pulled up the game of Reversi. Funny, I remember all those screens he showed ... I must be getting old. The point of showing that is ...
After Bill Gates keynote, Microsoft allowed us to go down to the distribution center and receive “The Goods” as they call it. This is a five disc set which includes a mass amount of software including: Windows Vista Beta 1 Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 SQL Server 2005 June CTP Virtual PC 2004 Virtual Server 2005 R2 Beta WinFX & Other Stuff Windows Vista CTP: PDC 2005 There is a spot for a sixth disc, but it is empty in my set. I am unsure if that is intentional or if there ...
I just read this announcement a little while ago but it looks like the company I work for is on the list of Microsoft ISV clients that are confirming that they will be creating new version of our software which leverage the upcoming Windows Vista framework. Very neat. I look forward to getting into the guts of Vista and WCF (even though it may not be for a while). I'm not saying which company I'm talking about though, I'll let you figure that one out. Hint: I work in the CRM industry. Read all about ...
Highlights Vista gets more of it's bits! Vista now has more 3D experience + the sidebar is back WPF & WCF now looking mature - Microoft Max is a great GUI experience - www.Microsoft.com/MAX LINQ - see here http://www.microsoft.com/pr... Office 12 looks stunning plus has real features - check out storin Power Points slide by slide on WSS then composing a new presentation from those slides - also if the 'master' is changed so is the developed presentation. ...
It was interesting that they only allowed photography of Bill Gates for the first minute of his presentation. Also, you weren’t allowed to use your laptops in the crowd as well – so I ended up taking my notes on paper instead of doing it with Microsoft Word like I normally do. Oh well. So, there was a lot said at the Bill Gates keynote, so I will only go through what I think were the highlights of the presentation. Video – Bill started off with a bit of humor and presented a video ...
Seems I missed the excitement of the power outage today; the cabbie relayed the story to me as we creeped up I405, feeling the after-affects of the heavy congestion that was only worsened by the lack of traffic signals. Unfortunately I had to reserve the my room at the hotel that is the further from the Convention Center, but that Sheraton Universal City is treating me well (better than Scoble at the Westin, it seems, but not as good as Casey Chesnut from the Channel 9 crew). I'm posting the my schedule ...
Windows Vista is scheduled to release in 7 different versions not including server or tablet editions. Wow! This is going to get confusing. So let's see if I can help: Windows Vista Starter Edition, Codename: Goverment mandated, stripped down, nothing to see here edition. Windows Vista Home Basic Edition, Codename: It came with my PC edition. Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, Codename: Media Center just wasn't cool enough edition. Windows Vista Professional Edition, Codename: It came with my MSDN ...
I recently received Windows “Longhorn” Vista Beta 1 in the mail from my MSDN subscription and decided to install it on one of the extra computers that I have at my house. I have installed “Longhorn” in the past, but I was quite interested to see what has changed in the install process this time around. The install process has changed quite a bit from the last time I installed it. It is a very graphical install process instead of the blue screen DOS style install process that ...
Like all good computer geeks, I try to download and trial all of the latest and greatest versions of software as soon as it is made available by the great geek god MiSDeN (may his code always compile). Vista was no exception. At 2.4 GB, even over a broadband connection the download took several hours. Finally got the ISO, burned to a DVD and installed on a separate partition (of course). After I finally got it up and running, started to play around with it. My goal was to put all of my beta’s ...
DevRadio.com launched this week with its first 3 shows. 1.) Inside Out with Jesse Liberty – Jesse is one of the most prolific technical authors today and is the primary O’Reilly author covering Microsoft’s technology. Jesse talks about being an author, writing on technology, working with publishers, building a business on Microsoft’s technology, and what’s coming in C# 2.0 2.) 1-On-1 with Dave Massy, Sr. PM on the Internet Explorer team. Dave discusses why we’re ...
Windows Vista is changing pace by adding a feature instead of removing one. The new feature is called Freeze Dry and it is design to maintain state when patches are applied and the computer is rebooted. This will allow system administrators to patch systems overnight and bonehead in accounting, who was told 10 times his computer was going to be rebooted, will not lose his work and come screeming at you the next day. I use to work with an “in-duh-vidual” who refused to let his computer ...
Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code named Avalon) is the Microsoft unified presentation subsystem for Windows, consisting of a display engine and a managed-code framework. Windows Presentation Foundation unifies how Windows creates, displays, and manipulates documents, media, and the user interface, enabling developers and designers to create visually stunning, personalized user experiences that improve the application connection with the user.XAML, a markup language to represent user ...
Well, the “was going to be in Longhorn but now it’s not” WinFS has been released to Beta 1. You can download it via MSDN subscriber downloads under the Tools, SDKs, DDKs section. You can also check out the WinFS blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/ I doubt I’ll be playing with this one. While the idea is interesting and I believe has its place I’m just not in a position where it really sparks my interest at the moment. Plus, as an added bonus, MSDN Subscriber downloads ...
Infragistics has a pretty heavy presence at PDC this year. We are a silver sponsor and we will be showing off some pretty cool wares, including demoing some of the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly 'Avalon') work that we have been doing. Also, Volume 3 of NetAdvantage 2005 release is nearing completion so you just might get to see some of the new stuff in this version. Make sure you stop by the IG booth and say hey to Jason or myself. Also INETA is going to have a presence at PDC as well, ...
Microsoft released the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation Beta 1 Release"."This article highlights the Beta 1 release of the Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon"), the next-generation Windows presentation graphics subsystem. It provides a brief overview of the platform and explores new features added in this release from previous releases"The article talks shortly about "Metro", media, speech, Typography, expander control and express applications.http://msdn.mi... ...
The SDK documentation for Windows Vista Beta 1 has been released. Browse on over to what they are calling Windows SDK Beta 1 and check it out.
If you’re into the bleeding edge or need to get the jump on Windows development in Vista this is where you need to be.
Okay MSN, Google is
throwing down. Do I have to wait for Vista to get a cool MSN sidebar?
If you are from Israel, you are welcome to join me for a lecture on Windows Vista.In the next meeting of the Architects Use Group, I will present a (approx) 3 hours lecture on Windows Vista.I will discuss (and demonstrate) the following topics:New services and architecture of Windows VistaAvalon Development, XAML language and what does it means for architectsDeep dive into IndigoWindows Vista, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2 Date and location:Date: August 28th, 2005 (28/8/2005)Time: 17:30 ...
While at TechEd, I made a prediction about Avalon, XAML, and a surprise from Microsoft: So, based on my read of just a couple msft guys, and seeing things in the community for a while, here's my read on the situation: They want to deliver Avalon (WinFX) with VS 2005 in November--they're holding it back as their 'big splash.' They've been so open about everything else, they still need something to make the VS 2005 launch a big deal. And I think that big deal will be an Avalon designer, and release ...
As I said in this post, the ReSharper 2.0 EAP has begun. There have been a total of three releases that I’ve seen, 201, 203, and 204. 201 was very buggy, but helpful, even still. I never got 203 to install properly and it managed to completely screw up my VS 2005 environment (VS 2005 often won’t start, causes blue screens, etc.). I’ve tried a number of things to fix my VS 2005 issues, but no go so far. 204 seems to be a little less buggy than 201 and actually installs for me. This ...
Hi all. My name is Shahar Nechmad and I'm the business development manager and a senior architect in Advantech (Magen) Microsoft division. Besides that I'm a huge sports fan (Go Maccabi – or for my American readers: Go Kniks!), can't live without music, was seen in too many parties and know to be possessed by demons from outer space. What can you expect form my blog? Besides updates on my attempts to have a life out side of work, I will mainly discuss the world of Windows Vista, but from time ...
I've been playing with Windows Vista (admittedly in a VPC image) for a few days now, and yes it's quite pretty but it's ungodly slow. Of course, I know it's in BETA and it's running on a VPC image, but I've thrown a gig of RAM at it and turned off most of the resource sucking options, and it's still dog slow. A few notes: - It makes it really hard to explore when just right-clicking can be measured in minutes. - One thing I noticed right off, is no new games in the start menu. That's a bummer. We ...
I have been giving Windows Vista the rundown since it was released and I have to say there is one thing I hate about it: the icons. The rest of the UI is pretty stunning. But who thought of the little tipped-on-their-side Manila file folders? That and the icons in the new Start menu (Games, My Computer, etc. — and oh yes, that crummy “glass” recycle bin) are all driving me nuts. Perhaps they will grow on me – perhaps looking at “Fisher-Price” for two+ years has ...
Microsoft has posted a Self-Guided Tour of Vista Beta 1 over on TechNet. It hits the key points and goes over some the more “interesting” features of Beta 1. I have a question though. Why did you (Microsoft) write this “Self-Guided Tour” and post it with crappy 4–bit color screenshots? I am completely baffled by this especially since one of their major talking points is the new fancy graphics and screen effects. If you have a beautiful new car do you drive it around ...
[Update] So it looks like the problem was installing it to a drive that already had Windows XP on it. After the final reboot at the end of the install I was presented with a logon screen that had Administrator and Guest as choices. I tried every password I've ever used for Administrator as well as all of the common defaults like P@ssw0rd and the like but to no avail. I had a Win2K installation on my C: drive and Windows XP on a separate physical drive H:. I installed Vista to the H: drive launching ...
Ben has a great post in his blog about running Windows Vista on Virtual PC. Myself and others wondered why we couldn't get the VM to mount the ISO for installation. Although many of us found a workaround Ben enlightens us as to why it happened. Apparently there is a 2.2GB limit on the size of a mountable ISO in Virtual PC. If you run a lot of Virtual PC, his blog is a great one to subscribe to ...
Many thanks to the South Central Indiana .NET Users Group (SCI-NUG) who have provided a forum for discussion of VMware and VPC installation of Windows Vista Beta 1. If you have questions or are having difficulty with your installation or wish to discuss general beta testing issues with Vista please feel free to stop in. You can visit the forum here and you do not need to register in order to post to the Windows Vista Beta 1 topic area. I apologize but the forum is no longer available ...
So it turns out... the DVD of Vista Beta 1 that I burned earlier was no good. Plain and simple. I burned a second one and this time Virtual PC recognized it right away. That's the good news. The bad news is... now I'm getting the exact same error I was getting with the 64 bit version, which you can see here. I downloaded this: Windows Longhorn Professional Edition Beta 1 (English) from MSDN Downloads. Should I have downloaded this: Windows Longhorn Professional Edition Beta 1 - checked/debug (English) ...
Well... that's 40 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Messed around with trying to load the Vista Beta 1 on a clean (not even formatted) VPC. No joy. Did some Googling, but still didn't find an answer. Ok well, found some answers: 1. VPC can't recognize ISO images over 2.2 gig in size. The ISO for Vista is bigger than that. 2. Virtual Server has apprently solved that problem. I burned the ISO to a DVD and never could get VPC to even see the DVD. That was probably me doing something wrong. I also ...