MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers can request [http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/productinfo/] a set of the software that will be distributed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 (PDC), including the preview versions of Longhorn, the Longhorn SDK, and Microsoft Visual Studio code-named “Whidbey.”…
Werner Vogels [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/] has gathered some interesting notes [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000280.html] on the backend architecture of some largely complex and distributed database-driven systems like those at eBay, Merrill Lynch, Swab, NASDAQ etc.…
Radio Interviews with .NET techies from PDC [http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/radio2003/interviews.cfm] via SYS-CON [http://www.sys-con.com/] Radio.…
XAML [http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/?//longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx] != [http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2003/10/markupbased_ui.html] XUL [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/]??!?! [http://longhornblogs.com/rdawson/posts/496.aspx] Avalon Screen Saver Contest Info [http://longhornblogs.com/avalonscreensavercontest/…
Business 2.0 (November 2003 Issue [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/current/0,1639,,00.html]) features a nice article on The Best New Technologies of 2003 [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,52968,00.html]. “Social Network Applications” is rated as the The Technology of the…
The Longhorn Developer Center [http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/] @ MSDN is live as expected [http://weblogs.asp.net/ashben/posts/30864.aspx]. And so is the Longhorn SDK [http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/]. Scott Hanselman [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/] moblogs (cool term, for mobile/handheld blogging) from PDC – “They’…
While reading an article at CodeProject [http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AmThreader.asp], I came across?AmThreader [http://www.amplefile.com/] -?a code generator for “converting any singlethreaded .NET class to a multithreaded one”. However, what it actually does is create a class wrapper for any .NET class (not…
Inno Setup [http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php] 4.0.9 has been released.?I use and recommend it for packaging & deployment of Windows desktop and client applications.?Its scripting based compiler system provides a lot of flexibility. And, it is?open source (Borland Delphi). A few colleagues at…