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May 2007
May 29, 2007
Video: Charting with ReportBuilder
In Scott Swigart's latest video tutorial, he shows how easy it is to add reports to your apps with the ReportBuilder control. Scott shows how you can access any ODBC data source, in this case Access. He builds a data query using querybuilder, customizes it to refine the results, then designs a report with charts.
Posted by John Dorsey at 08:25 PM Permalink
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May 23, 2007
Free Webinar: Bringing C++ to Vista
Sign up for a free webinar in June called Bringing C++ to Vista. Girish Ramakrishnan and Naren Karattup from Trolltech software will talk about some of the problems of getting the best features of Vista in your C++ =based apps. After the presentation attendees can interact with Girish and Naren.
Posted by John Dorsey at 12:22 PM Permalink
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May 15, 2007
WinHEC Keynotes
At the first-day keynote of WinHEC 2007, Bill Gates announced "Windows Server 2008" as the official name of Longhorn server, now in Beta 3. He featured some currently available technologies, such as Windows Rally wireless networking, in the first half of the keynote.
The second half focused on a few R&D projects and a look ahead at coming trends. Bill predicts that 64-bit processor will reach 100% market penetration in the server, desktop and mobile markets in the next couple of years. He also pointed to Microsoft's heavy investment in natural user interfaces such as voice and handwriting input. Microsoft is positioning itself to extend the traditional business and home computing networks to include cell phones in a variety of ways. See the whole day one keynote webcast archive.
Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich will be delivering the Wednesday keynote: "Windows Server Platform Internals", along with Mike Nash and Bill Laing. A live stream should be available Webnesday morning at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx.
Posted by John Dorsey at 10:50 PM Permalink
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May 08, 2007
WiX Video
Check out Scott Swigart's latest video tutorial on the Windows Installer XML project. WiX is an open-source toolset for building an .msi file based off of a definition in an XML document. Scott explores some of the advantages and disadvantages over the typical setup project found in Visual Studio. For more on the WiX toolset see: http://wix.sourceforge.net/.
Posted by John Dorsey at 07:30 PM Permalink
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May 01, 2007
Silverlight and Web Tools Launched at Mix07
The Silverlight 1.1 alpha release was announced by Microsoft at MIX07 conference, along with several related web tools. The Web Development Tools team has links to all of them on the team blog. Silverlight is a cross-browser plug-in designed to let you write cool, rich-media apps in Visual Studio and deploy them in a cross-platform, cross-browser web client. The plug-in download is ~1 MB, it runs on MacOS or Windows, it doesn't require installing .NET, and it's derived from same source tree as the full desktop .NET CLR.
J. Nicholas Hoover provides some more details on informationweek.com: Microsoft Details Silverlight At Mix 07 Conference
Channel 9 has video of Scott Guthrie giving a rundown on Silverlight's architecture: Silverlight and the Cross-Platform CLR
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