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Better late than never, but today the DVD with Beta 1 of Office "12" that was promised at PDC05 arrived. I decided not to go with the default "upgrade" option, because that removes all Office 2003 components. Installing side-by-side went pretty smooth. The installation stalls at about...
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Ever since the November 2005 CTP of WinFX I have had trouble running any Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) sample application on my machine. Every WPF program would crash on startup with weird BAML related exceptions. Even freshly created WPF programs in Visual Studio 2005 with a single empty form...
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<rant> Checkout Windows Live in Firefox. Go read the comments about it on Robert Scoble's blog . Go read Joel on Software about it . This is indeed a PR disaster. Announcing something web based at this day and age with Firefox support as an afterthought is pretty stupid. And it is another branding...
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Through this blog post I just noticed that a new white paper on Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") is up on the Vista Developer Center on MSDN. The paper provides a very good overview of all the different features and aspects of WPF. It focuses more on the whys than the hows. Like why...
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You gotta love Microsoft for this one. All PDC05 sessions, panel discussions and symposia can be viewed online for free for the coming six months. Better still, you can download the PowerPoint slides and the entire presentations for offline viewing. This is a screenshot of one of the PDC05 sessions in...
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Today I found the time to get my hands dirty on C# 3.0 and LINQ . At PDC05 I went to a couple of sessions on these topics and I read the excellent whitepaper on the LINQ project by Hejlsberg and Box . But I was too busy attending other sessions to try out the hands-on-labs. The hands-on-labs are available...
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Finally found the time to give Microsoft Max a spin. Dennis blogged about this WinFX application on the day of its release. That day I saw it demoed at the PDC05 but couldn't try it out myself. I had to first uninstall Beta 1 of WinFX, its SDK and the Visual Studio 2005 integration from my computer....
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Today I checked the referrer logs for my blog entries about the PDC. I noticed that two of my PDC posts were not syndicated on PDC Bloggers.NET . Although evidently about the PDC, they were apparently ignored by the editors of PDC Bloggers.NET. Of course I can can only speculate about the cause of this...
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This year's PDC is now officially over. I changed the flair on my blog . The hallways in the Convention Center are slowly starting to drain. If this post suddenly ends, you know I have been kicked out of the building. I'll be in the States for another two weeks on holiday, so my blog will probably go...
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As you may have noticed I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front during this PDC. There are a couple of reasons for this: There are so many interesting sessions here, including lunch sessions, that it is very hard to find the time to blog if you can't or won't blog during sessions. The program...
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There is at least one cool item in the PDC goodie bag: a Channel9 Guy! I've been wanting to have one for a while now. Sending a postcard to Robert Scoble to get one didn't work ;( Must have been a big production order this time since there about 7000 attendees.
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Robert Scoble raises the expectations of the PDC05 so high that I really wonder if Microsoft can live up to those expectations. He uses the words shock and awe . Luckily I have already gotten my shot of awe yesterday . Beta 1 of Windows Vista certainly didn't come near such an experience. Sure the glass...
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Frits (a non-blogging colleague and friend) was commenting that he was looking forward to Grand Canyon related pictures. I have gotten a very nice preview of the Grand Canyon yesterday. British Airways was kind enough to fly straight over this awesome piece of nature. As I was looking at the inflight...
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Like Rene and Rob I have also made it safely to Los Angeles. A day later, because I am not going to a precon. I am traveling on a slightly smaller budget than my colleagues (I guess because I am from a poorer part of the company). Hey Rene, a shuttlebus from LAX costs only 15$! Fortunately my 60$ a night...
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Come and play WinFX Hearts ! I am waiting for three more players to be able to start a game ;) WinFX Hearts is the old Internet Hearts application with a new look. Adam Nathan upgraded the application to use "Avalon" and other .NET related technologies. But is also uses a lot of the old C+...