May 2006 - Posts
I am curious about Martin's
status and what his build script actually acomplishes. I have not dug into
ASP.NET just yet since there is so much that needs to be done just on the
WinForm applications alone. I would be happy to see more about this particular
development.
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Looks like it is time for a new cell phone. The "Q" is available (http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffstra/archive/2006/05/31/611597.aspx).
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There is now not much of an excuse for not migrating those older Access
databases to SQL Express. SQL Hera (http://www.sqlhera.com/), the goddess of the
SQL Server, has listed the latest versions of the migration tools for
Sybase and (more importantly) Access (http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/PermaLink.aspx?guid=85049abf-ba04-49bd-8338-6f8c0f8a960b).
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Primarily I have been doing this in my spare time and am willing to work with
others to get these done. If you look at Visual Studio not only do the project
templates need to be converted, but the item templates as well. So this is a
pretty big job.
I just got hired back on to the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team
again so I will be pretty busy soon. I am not going to give any definite time
frames, but I will say that the more contributions the come in, the faster they
all will be done. I will continue to work as time allows this week before I get
really started in the job. When you look at what needs to be done on each
template, you see that the biggest thing is to go through each one and remove
all references to items that only compile with dotnet 2.0 (i.e. generics is one
of the biggest things). Now that MSBee has reached the 1.0 stage, the
templates can be finalized and debugged for the 1.1 release. Also the option
exists to use the "FX1_1" constant to limit 2.0/1.1 code visibility.
The forum
post will give you a general guide of how to install the templates in
your installation of Visual Studio.
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Hey I got an honorable mention!!!
http://blogs.msdn.com/clichten/archive/2006/05/30/611260.aspx
Well I guess I should be giving updates then.
Well I had some initial templates completed and posted on my web site (this
is a self hosted server for my own experimentation so please be gentle). The
first is a empty project template (http://www.jazzynupe.net/Business/Downloads/EmptyProject-1.1.zip)
and is using MSBee implementation of the Empty Project Template. The other is
the Windows Forms Template (http://www.jazzynupe.net/Business/Downloads/WindowsApplication-1.1.zip)
and should let you build and run a windows forms application.
With these templates thare are a few things to keep in mind. Just because the
templates are created, that does not mean that Visual Studio knows anything
about MSBee. When you create your application, Visual Studio will still try to
use features availabe only in the .NET 2.0 framework. These templates help
with configuring the project to use MSBee but a special Visual Studio plugin
will need to be built in order to limit the use of the 2.0 features.
This is jsut the first step to get the templates available and working so
that the greater community can just select the template from the new project
dialog. Please discuss or comment as needed. I will be glad to answer questions
as they arise.
The next post will explain a bit more about time frames.
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In the latest MSDN Magazine (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/07/CodeAndSeek)
there is an article where it is discussed how the to create a Visual Studio
Add-In that uses Windows Desktop Search. It is very interesting and shows some
information on how to integrate the deeper capability of Desktop Search with
Visual Studio.
Well Beta 2 is installed and all I can say is, WOW! Very nice improvement
over 5308 that was previously running the tablet. Much quicker to get loaded and
started. The only gripe I have is that the Windows Live Toolbar causes Internet
Explorer on Vista to bomb. I love the Live Favorites feature, so I will have to
see how I can get this back.
So except for the occasional driver (the display driver just does not work
and to change tablet orientation, I think I need it) the HP/Compaq
TC1000 with 512 MB of memory performs decently. It could be better if I
could go to about 1 GB of RAM, but this hardware is limited to 768 MB. The
processor is rated at a speed of 1 GHz so speed wise for the processor it is not
terrible, but the memory pressure is what will make this tablet under
perform.
I also took the time to install Office 2007 Beta 2. Nice improvement over
2003. Now to create a plugin for RSSBandit so that it can use the centralized
RSS store that cimes with IE7. So my next steps are to install all my programs
back on the tablet and see what she can do.
Oh and as a tidbit of information, the Office install will give you the
option to upgrade if you have Office 2003 installed. The thing to watch out for
is the fact that the offline folder may not operate properly. When I did my
upgrade on my main home computer, all my emails would show blank content. what I
discovered by some trial and error is that the offline file was corrupt or
something. Once I deleted it and recreated the mail settings, everything showed
up again. I plan on posting this on the forums and letting everyone know about
this if they see the issues.
Let me explain a bit.
See when I started this blog, I had no idea what I was doing or how this
software worked. I started with .TEXT 0.95 and just kept going from there.
During the life of this blog I migrated the database to SQL Server 2005 as a
test. It worked fine until the next updates would not work with a domain
controler properly (which is what my server was). SO I had to start from scratch
thinking one day I would revisit the possibility of importing the data back into
a SQL 2000 database.
(Some of you may see where this is going)
So when the final release of the SQL 2005 tools came out I was still stuck
cause I did not have a server to host the SQL 2005 database on. SO there
all my posts from 2003 stayed until this weekend. What I decided to so is use a
small console application and some data analysis to go through the posts and
comments and import them into the 2000 version of the community server
database.
So now if you look at the listing I now have posts going all the way back to
2003. A long time to have this blog running so far. I was even able to come up
with a general rule to get rid of the comment spam I received in those early
days. Thankfully through some data analysis, the comments were following a
pattern in the data. The parent IDs were never acturally pointing to a proper
entry and the section IDs were always incorrect. So that made it relativly
simple. I had a few test posts that were not included, but those where ok to
loose. I did not worry about the history or reporting since I never got to see
them in the UI, but the work to include this should not be too much more
difficult.
I also used this to learn a bit about the ADO.NET in the 2.0 version of the
.NET framework. SOme neat capabilities are available in Visual Studio 2005
and I would recomend taking some time to learn about them. This allowed me to
focus on doing analysis of the diata instead of spending all the time on the
code. But I will say that it took me most of the afternoon simply because of the
data analysis and trial and error on inserting.
Installing Vista today, we will see how it goes on my HP/Compaq TC1000 Tablet
PC...
In case you wondered, It is Transmeta Processor 5800 with 512 MB or RAM and a
30GB hard drive.
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If you have MSDN subscription you can download and install it. I think I
will be pretty busy this weekend.
Found this interesting post with the title "Office
2007 Beta 2 is out..." on MSDN
Blogs.
Some good information on getting started using InfoCard... InfoCard is the
next big thing in identity management for web sites.
Found this interesting post with the title "So you
want to adopt Infocard? " on MSDN Blogs.
Interesting information if you are trying to create Virtual Servers for
BizTalk. I did the same thing, created a DVD of a base server image and created
several SharePoint and SQL Servers based on that. Good information to make sure
that you are able to operate youf Virtual Server environment.
Found this interesting post with the title "Virtual
Machines, BizTalk Configuration and DTC Madness" on MSDN Blogs.
Paint.NET is working on Mono. Pretty cool Miguel was about to do that. I
hope that future work makes it even better. As an independent developer, I love
the wide adoption (Mono, [dotgnu], and one from Intel). Just shows that not
all 800 pund gorillas want to squash you. :-)
Found this interesting post with the title "Miguel de Icaza: Porting
Paint.NET to Mono" on Monologue.
I agree with the opinion here... Before I went on haiatus this very issue did
not sit well with me. In my position I was pretty busy as it was... To have to
"out perform" everyone else to up my score was tough. Not to say that I wouldn't
do the extra things, it was just the fact that it was "expected" that I do the
extra things, even if I was performing well in my perscribed job.
Now I think that these changes will give people insentive to do more with the
more guarenteed promise that doing extra will benefit you not just keep you
afloat.
Found this interesting post with the title "Missed
big HR meeting (MyMicrosoft is now improved)" on Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger.
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