The next couple of weeks there will be low activity on my blog. First, I'll be guiding a total of almost 100 kids through a summercamp for a week (we're leaving today), next we will start working on our new house! We get the key a week from monday, so that's two days after we come back from camp. Two days of resting...... I hope ;)
I might get back once in a while, maybe even publishing some pics about the 'renovation', but since this is a .Net blog I might have to post those elsewhere. If you're interested, let me know.
For all those who have a holiday ahead of them: Have a nice one! I'll be back somewhere around the end of August or the beginning of September. Happy coding.
The
Visual Studio servicing page is updated: VS 2005 SP1 will
ship Q3 of this year. This date seems to have has slipped before, but at least it gives us an estimated time of shipping.
Taken from that page:
"
The types of fixes you can expect to find in this service pack are:
- The Hotfixes and General Distribution Release Updates (GDRs) released between RTM and the end of the Service Pack customer beta period.
- Any fixes addressing security issues categorized as MSRC "Critical", "Important" or "Moderate".
- Fixes for product reliability and stability issues, including those reported by customers via the Product Feedback Center, and the crashes most frequently reported via Watson.
- Fixes for common "eligible" functional issues reported by customers via the Product Feedback Center. "Eligible" functional issues are those that do not require breaking changes, architectural changes, or Design Change Request (DCR) level feature work, and that do not create unacceptable product quality risk and/or cost of implementation.
- Fixes for the top customer and supportability issues as reported by PSS."
Jan Schreuder blogged about it earlier, and the buzz around Sandcastle is growing...
Brenton House posted about Sandcastle
last friday, stating that it might have been the day Sandcastle would be released. Unfortunately it wasn't, so the waiting does not stop yet. It even looks like we might be waiting a little longer:
"In addition we plan to include Sandcastle in our August CTP release of Visual Studio SDK." (taken from a
thread on the MSDN Forums)
MSDN 2 Library has been online for a while now. When you visit the 'old' MSDN library, you see the following text:
"We’re upgrading the MSDN Library to a new publishing system which provides improved performance, better search relevance, XHTML compliance, URLs which don’t change after product releases, and more. During the next few months we’ll gradually move content over to the new site, although MSDN Search will work across both sites automatically. The first few levels of the Table of Contents (TOC) tree will be kept in sync across both sites; you can select the product/technology you want in the directory tree and we’ll redirect you to the correct library for that content.
You are currently viewing the “classic” MSDN Library located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library. To go to the new MSDN Library, go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/Library.
In the coming months, the documentation hosted in both libraries will be consolidated into a single MSDN Library."
That last sentence is a nice one...: Microsoft won't be maintaining two different libraries, but they will be consolidated into a single library.
When I visited the 'new' MSDN Library for the first time, things looked pretty much the same to me. Maybe some links and functionality moved to another place on the screen, but the basics were still the same. After my first search, I saw something nifty: "Got IE7? - get our search". Microsoft developed an IE7 search provider for the MSDN Library. This means you can use the search bar in IE7 to directly search the MSDN Library! It has saved me lots of time already...