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Visual Studio “Orcas” is Visual Studio 2007??
While installing the January 2007 CTP of Visual Studio Codename Orcas, the next installment in the Visual Studio suites, I noticed something peculiar in the setup window. Is it really going to be called Visual Studio 2007? I do like the sound of it though. Unfortunately, installing this CT...
The origins of the Composite Application Block
Last year, during our visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, I got a chance to talk to Brenton Webster, a solutions architect of Microsoft Austrialia. He told us about a great project they've been doing for the Austrialian Commonwealth Back of Australia (CBA) based on Smart Clients and ma...
Under the hood of ASP.NET AJAX
You've probably heard of ASP.NET AJAX already and its potential for changing the balance between Web and Windows applicaties. This article explains how you can call ASMX web services from your Javascript code without any pain. Moreover, it also explains how that is accomplished under the hood.
Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate 1
If you have, like me, been participating in the beta tests of the 2007 edition of Microsoft's Virtual PC, you should check out the Microsoft Connect site. They've released release candidate 1 (build 6.0.142) and it runs very smoothly under Vista on my HP laptop. Since I've been bet...
WPF Everywhere
Codename WPF/E or Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere in full, refers to the technology that allows lightweight XAML based applications to run within Internet Explorer, Firefox, or even Mac's Safari. To see what I'm talking about, download the CTP from here, and then check out the sam...
Uninstallation aid
I recently posted about a problem I had while upgrading from Office 2007 Beta 2 to the final version. Somehow, the unstallation of beta 2 still left some pieces floating around on my harddisk. I then used a manual workaround, but in the mean time, I've also found a nice little tool that really sh...