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"I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com"
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
This SHOULD be done in Longhorn. Although I am confident that most of the kernel has been rewritten by now over the years… I think that there are entire areas of code that have to be removed, or at the very least, refactored. There are entire subsystems within Windows that simply should be torn out, as they have been replaced with better systems that should be threat modeled, analyzed and refactored. This might/will break backwards compatibility with some software. Some people might not like ...
Programming the Windows Shell is considered a very difficult discipline, only for one reason: Missing docs. I was hit by this again recently. The details shown under a file name in Tile View on Windows XP are determined like this: GetUIObjectOf is called to obtain an IQueryAssociations interface. This interface's GetString is called with the constant ASSOCSTR_TILEINFO. The format of the string returned is of the form "prop:{fmtid1} pid1;{fmtid2} pid2 Unfortunately, the docs on GetUIObjectOf don't ...
So here am I, Henk Devos, looking at my own writing... So here am I, Henk Devos, being read by my own eyes... The dilemma of Hamlet in Daniel C Dennet's "Where Am I", all over again. But the question you are asking should rather be: Who am I? And what is this blog about? This being my first entry, i can't answer this adequately yet. But the following will certainly come up: Windows Shell Programming Prepress and graphics software Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Shareware, Software marketing, ...
BizTalk EditorEasily define and edit document schema for any structured document type, including XML, electronic data interchange (EDI), and flat files. BizTalk MapperBuild document maps that allow applications and business partners who use different document definitions to communicate with each other. BizTalk Orchestration DesignerVisually define and build robust, distributed business processes. BizTalk Messaging ManagerUse this wizard-based tool to rapidly define trading partner relationships. ...
Whew ... I can finally talk about it! For about 2 or 3 months now, I have been working on a Microsoft/Reuters joint ad campaign that is going to be coming out in about a week and a half, but which was announced only this week in San Francisco. Microsoft is doing their first ad campaign focused on Windows Server System - a brand that encompasses quite a few components (such as Windows Server, SQL, BizTalk, etc.). The focus of the ad was to focus on what real people in real companies are doing with ...
Updated Security Guides: Windows Server 2003 Security Guide The Windows Server 2003 Security Guide provides guidance to assist in hardening Domain Controllers, Infrastructure servers, File servers, Print servers, IIS servers, IAS servers.Certificate Services, and bastion hosts.Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XPThe Threats and Countermeasures Guide contains detailed information about relevant security settings that can be configured on Microsoft Windows ...
OK, I know that this is not a popular view to have but I can't get over the stupidity of this latest virus. It baffles me why people would open an email from someone they don't know and execute the attachment. Maybe I don't understand something, or maybe i am just underestimating the stupidity of the average internet user. The number of infected people truly made me laugh this morning. I think that if you are stupid enough to open this message, download the attachment, and execute it you deserve ...
I know this is my second article today about the same thing but I really can't stress enough how cool I think the idea behind WinFS is. With WinFS you can take disparate stores of information, such as MSN Messenger contacts and Outlook contacts, and share them across all applications in Longhorn. However, since third party applications, like Lotus and other email and collaboration applications, will not be designed to take advantage of these new features, many people think that the real purpose of ...
How much RAM do Visual Studio developers actually have?I just cannot make do without 512MB ram on my box. I right now have a dev box which runs 2.4ghz Processor with 1gig ram and I should call it smooth for the 15+ windows which are out there on my desktop with 2 instances of devenv 1 media player 1 sharp reader, outlook, av kit, MSN & Yahoo msngrs, Groove, 2 terminal service client instances ... for that matter how many apps do we geeks actually run at a given instance of time. or shall I put ...
I have downloaded and installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a Windows-client for my blog tool (as well as some for other tools).Actually, it was not me who wrote this text: when I launched BlogJet for the first time, it's edit window already contained this text and the program asked me to click Post and Publish button to post this text to my blog in order to test the connection (yes, and the text above is not mine too! :-)... So, I did. [Ansari] Their is one more line here which I ...
There are some great new interviews posted from Stephen Ibaraki. This round includes notables: Scott (4GuysFromRolla) Mitchell, Kate Gregory (Visual C++ .NET) and Rand Morimoto (Windows Server 2003). Well worth the quick read ...
Recently I had the issue of dealing with SPS2003 and Extranet access. The issue is ofcourse no issue at all, but just the problem of how to add external users (i.e. ppl outside your Windows domain) and users of the Portal. Here are a couple of links that would aid anyone else who wants to achieve this. Google indexed discussion @ microsoft.public.sharepoint... Whitepaper on how to Expose WSS through MS Small Business Server. And there is a whole email thread on this subject at sharepoint@yahoogroups.com ...
A couple days ago, I wrote about the ability to create a Custom Task Pane in InfoPath. You can use a similar technique to show modal dialogs based on an HTML file. In this post, I give a brief overview of how to create and launch a modal dialog in InfoPath.
I am finally finished building my new machine. Last application, Source Gear Vault. One annoyance I have with the application is the fact that if you move it out of the “Programs” folder of the start menu, it will popup Windows Installer, and put another folder there. Annoying! The only way to remove it from showing, is to open the folder and mark it hidden. This is not a big deal to normal Windows developers, but I am anal. Here is a picture of my final start menu. ...
In InfoPath, every control on the form must be bound to an element in the XML document and defined by the underlying schema. This can be limiting when you want to provide some additional assistance to retrieve information and/or populate the form. One option is to use managed code that displays System.Windows.Forms dialogs launched by a button on the form. This comes at a cost of making development and deployment more complicated. Another option is to use a Custom Task Pane. A Custom Task Pane in ...
Yesterday I saw a link for http://kbalertz.com on http://www.asp.net; I had heard of kbalertz before but had never visited. Last night I went to the site and was very pleasantly surprised at the functionality of the site, including the total ease with which I could sign up for alerts by email on some of my favorite MS technologies like Infopath and Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS). And then, being a big RSS fan, you can imagine my glee to find out that I could sign up for a feed of new KB articles ...
Deploying WebParts after you make a build is a bit of a hassle especially because you have to leave you IDE to do a couple of things. The basic process is you need to 1. Compile 2. Install the assembly to the GAC 3. Copy assembly to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bin 4. Recycle the MS SharePoint default app pool - to invoke the new instance of the assembly -> Typically you will have to switch between VS.NET, InetMgr, and the command prompt. So here’s what I do. 1. My WebPart projects have their default ...
Holidays have come and gone and it always brings with it relatives that need help with their computers. I set my brother up with some programs for his troubled machine and it made me think that I would post here all the programs I put on EVERY computer I own. I would love to hear what else people use as well on their machines. So if I ever do a clean install of Windows. I put on the service packs (not connected to the Internet of course) and once that is all in place, I head directly for: Windows ...
To LLBLGen or not?I guess this is my introduction post. My name is Chris Martin (as you can see :)) and I'm a .NET developer with about 6 years experience in mostly Windows technology. I used to dabble in the *nix world a little bit. But, found it too exhausting. This is also my first attempt at blogging. I look forward to being a part of this comunity and hope that I can provide some help to you guys sometimes.Now...Onto the meat of this post.I'm going to use the new LLBLGen Pro on our next project. ...
I saw this link on another blog this morning and thought that it was just oh, so, super cool. I wouldn't mind being able arrange and navigate through my windows in 3d space! I don't know exactly how practical it is, especially considering that non-geeks can have enough problems as it is using computers. Looks like we're one step closer to Johnny Mnemonic. Yeah, baby, yeah!
So, I got in a discussion (read: argument) with someone about scalability, right. It all started when a manager made a comment, “.NET isn't as scalable as J2EE.” I of course rebutted by claiming that this was an ignorant statement. Then, a more technical person on this guy's team made the comment, as if it would be any less ignorant. To prove my point, I asked the techie how comparable .NET and J2EE apps would scale considering a Windows-based platform. He proceeded to say that they would ...
There's been a lot of talk about Linux taking a chunk out of Microsoft's space in the corporate desktop realm. Now, I don't see Linux ever being a huge threat to Microsoft, but it can possibly make a nice dent in Microsoft's income. With Longhorn 2-3 years out, customers are going to be very hungry for some new features. With the recent Windows Server 2003 launch, Microsoft has some time, but pretty soon, I think people will look at this as the time to make a decision. Microsoft needs to realize ...
No no no; I am not copying the Mobile Minute or .NET Nightly. For all i know this might be a once off thing. Nevertherless Nino and J Avery sure are an inspiration (if this becomes more than a once off thing you guys are acknowledged) Anyway just wanted to publicize some links i found 1. SharePoint free online trial 2. SharePoint on TechNet 3. SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN 4. Michael Greth's Sharepoint Weblog - probably more concise and less confusing than points 2 & 3. Best if you know ...
I read this press release and was a little shocked. In Microsoft's battles with
Lindows.com, it seems that they opened a can of worms. Now the jury is going to be deciding whether the word “Windows” predates Microsoft's use of it in 1983 and Microsoft is in jeopardy of losing their trademark over the Windows name.
Read the entire release here.
I got this in a Microsoft email this morning: Don't Miss the New Winter Fun Packs! Download these free Fun Packs for Windows Media Player 9 Series, Windows Movie Maker 2 and Windows XP games. I downloaded the Windows Media Player 9 Series Winter pack - which has a pretty interesting visualization that I like. I also downloaded the digital photography Winter pack (not mentioned here ... but it is there) and that has a neat screensaver changer with six real nice desktop wallpapers that change at an ...
FINALLY! I got a machine together - not all the parts I wanted - but good enough to get Longhorn on it. Final piece was the DVD drive. I did a clean install of Longhorn. I was quite interested in how the install process would proceed. So I will detail it out as much as I can for those people that are strange and love these details (like me). First off, there was no blue install screen where you would see the default drivers and such being installed. The first things requested was a page where I had ...
You might remember my earlier post when I was complaining about the structure of files in Visual Studio. After a little research, I have discovered how to “convince” Visual Studio to use the directory structure I would like it to. The goal of this is to turn a directory structure like this (Visual Studio's default): Solution/ Project/ Bin/ Debug/ Release/ to this: Solution/ Project/ bin/ ** compiler output for release builds ** src/ test/ ** compiler output for debug builds ** The purpose ...
Well, I thought I would just do a quick post on my initial thoughts on Longhorn. Please keep in mind that I just installed Longhorn so I don't have much experience with it yet. First of all, even without the true Aero experience, it is still quite a handsome operating system. The install went without a hitch. The total install only took around 30 minutes (I installed directly on the box). A couple little cool things that I noticed to this point that I look forward to exploring more in the future: ...
I started to read an article that was talking about how simplicity always wins over complexity. This was followed up by a statement about the up-and-coming "feature race." This just made me think about Longhorn, Microsoft's next version of Windows. What are we going to do when it comes out? I haven't seen all of the content released after PDC, yet, but I don't think Microsoft will leave us all hanging with our "legacy" Win32/NTFS apps. When considering Linux and MacOS, I would have to say that both ...
Jon Udell recently wrote an article about "rich" GUI's. In this, he covers a good amount of ideas that I've been thinking of for a while. If you get a chance, go check it out. I'm not sure what everyone else thinks about this, but Microsoft is re-focusing on desktop applications. I've talked to a lot of people about this, and it seems that the majority of people want to stick with what they're used to - whether it be desktop or web apps. I've done development for both platforms, and personally, I ...
In the EU trial that is going on, Real Networks used Windows XP Embedded against Microsoft. Windows XP Embedded allows people to select the parts of Windows XP that they need to create smaller versions of the operating system - for things like ATM machines and the like. Real Network contends that just the existence of this product shows that things don't need to be bundled. Ouch! READ MORE HERE ...
Watch what you do Europe! Just
read this article about a Microsoft threat that they may get a substandard version of Windows if they continue down the path that they are going.
I don't know if anyone out there is even reading this blog yet, but I was a little curious about the development environment that any of you develop in. My environment looks like the following IDE: Visual Studio .NET 2003 SQL: Sql Server 2000 [Corrected. Thanks Carlos!] Testing: NUnit Build Tool: NAnt / NAntPad Source Control: Subversion (an open-source cvs-style app) Language Preference: C# OS: Windows XP Pro How 'bout you ...
Seems like every week a new version of iTunes for Windows is released. I don't mind downloading it, but what a complete nuisance to install Quicktime, iTunes, and iPodService each time. After the installation, the original Quicktime settings are completely lost. So you restart and all the services that were disabled and startup applications are there again. Kind of annoying. The Time magazine Invention of the year was Apple's iTunes Music Store. That is awesome! I couldn't agree more. This is a way ...
Every wonder where the name "Longhorn" comes from? I did and heard a little story that went like this: Come and listen to a story about a man named GatesA rich pioneer looking to keep Windows rich (with features of course)And then one day while skiing Blackcomb and Whistler tooHe had to make a pit-stop along a highway 99 jewel...Longhorn bar that is, pints of beer, burgers too.... Well the first thing you know ol Gates got an ideaThe patrons said "Longhorn is what we got here"said "Vector GDI is ...
The latest to come out of the Google labs is the Google Deskbar and this for sure is better than the Google Toolbar. Though this one is still under beta / what the google folks call there lab item. Its just tooooo COOOOOOOOOL.. The deskbar is a toolbar item. Press CTRL+ALT+G (anywhere in any windows app after selecting your words press those magic keys) and / or enter your search criteria and hit enter. A new mini window opens with your search results. According to the article here the future could ...
On Tuesday Eric Sink from SourceGear announced the new features of the upcoming Vault 2.0, scheduled for late January 2004. I have been using Vault since 1.0 came out and I must say that I absolutely love it. It does everything that Source Safe does and it lets me work from anywhere I can get an Internet connection! Plus I don't have to worry about Source Safe db corruption anymore <yea> Anyhoo, heres the new features list: SourceGear DiffMerge: A new diff and merge application replaces the ...
Prologue: Comctl32.dll, version 6. Comctl32.dll, or the Common Controls, have been around for a very long time. This library provided basic common controls while User32.dll provided user controls. In version 6 of the Common Controls, all of the controls were put in Comctl32.dll so that all the controls could support theming. Comctl32.dll, version 6, is not redistributable, however, unlike previous versions of Comctl32.dll. In order to use the new Windows XP Visual Styles, you must be using an operating ...
Microsoft's Command-Line Compiler You do not need to buy Visual Studio .NET in order to program in C#. On the Windows platform, you can do everything with a text editor and the C# command-line tools that are provided in the Platform SDK(130MB) Mono Mono is an effort to make an Open Source implementation of the .NET Development Framework and includes a free C# compiler DotGNU Portable.NET A British-based Open Source implementation of the .NET Development Framework targeting Linux, includes C# compiler ...
Chris Anderson had a great talk this afternoon about the application framework that's built into the Longhorn OS. He struggled through a couple demos, but nonetheless, got the points across in an almost all-demo talk. After the marketing mandated slides, it was just code, code, code. Avalon, along with the Longhorn OS, provide some services to prevent having us all write the same plumbing code over and over. Some highlights: It feels a lot like the MFC application framework, where we don't write ...
I am not a fan of the official name “Visual Basic .NET” for the VB language. It was too bad that the .NET moniker name was thrown on everything. Microsoft obviously has as well since they changed the beta product “Windows Server .NET 2003” to “Windows Server 2003”. So I have been asking around if they are going to do the same thing with Visual Basic .NET. In most of the presentations here at PDC though - you see “Visual Basic .NET” - BUT if you go to ...
Second day keynote …. In the beginning, there was a video of attendees. The most exciting part was Donny Mack and Asli talking about Indigo being the stuff in your watches to make them glow. They were shown in their shades and holding their little dog! Quite groovy guys! Notes on Eric Rudder Keynote: What Microsoft hears from you: Don’t make me rewrite everything! Moving code from development to production is too hard Give me more code samples … in my favorite language Help me make ...
For all you geeks out there... This is info and examples of the new user interface. Looks like Windows XP on steroids. Lots of fluffiness (is that a word?) http://msdn.microsoft.com/L... http://msdn.microsoft.com/L... Full Site about "Aero": http://msdn.microsoft.com/L... ...
Jim Alchin - ** how developers can do this? Fundamentals - WinFS - Indigo - Avalon Announcing WinFX - next step behind Win 32 - builds on the .NET Framework Well-structured programming framework for Windows Continued commitment to back wards compatibility MS-DOS – Win16 – Win32 - WinFX Add ref and release you will not have to think about. WinFx Developer Preview - namespace chart Software fundamentals - challenges System, application, driver reliability Deployment complexity and expense ...
Avalon: Best of the Web, Best of Windows Bringing together the advantages from both worlds Web Seamless deployment, update and administration flowable layout progressive download and rendering Declarative model Windows Unrestricted functionality Integration with Windows desktop Good offline support Scalability and performance Broad developer language Developer Experience Declarative Programming Extensible Application Markup – codenamed XAML One to one correspondence with object model Key role ...