Visual Studio 2008 RTM today
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is done, and can be downloaded today to MSDN Professional subscribers. See a previous post for some of the most exciting features of this new release.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to ship this month
In a press release today, Microsoft announced it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 this month. This is a truly remarkable landmark release. My favorite new features…
WPF Gmail clone: end of the road
Due to patent and copyright concerns and trying to avoid any trouble from Google, I cannot release the source code to the WPF Gmail clone sample. I have decided instead…
Advertising bubble to burst or a new tax: take your pick
The dot-com bubble burst I fully expected the dot-com bubble to burst. The entire premise driving all the enormous bank loans, the promise of huge returns from the newly discovered…
Back to Blogger
I left Blogger back in October 2005 to switch to Community Server as my blogging platform. I had the fortune of working at an institution that was happy to lend…
An update on the cloned Gmail interface using WPF
I’ve spent a couple dozen hours now working into the details of the Gmail clone I began about a month ago. I’ve been learning more of the ins-and-outs of WPF’s…
New WPF developer clones Gmail interface in 4 hours
Although Visual Studio 2005 and the appropriate extension can enable WPF development, with the release of beta 2 Visual Studio 2008 we have a seemless integration of Windows Presentation Foundation…
SPSS.NET wrapper library now hosted on CodePlex
The C# library I wrote that wraps SPSS IO library (spssio32.dll) for managed applications is now hosted on CodePlex. It hasn’t been developed much in the last few years, but…
Finally, an OpenID provider that takes Information Cards as authentication
I don’t know why this took so long to surface. And maybe it just took a while to discover. But honestly I don’t know why there is only one service…
How to (not) write an especially precarious app on .NET (Compact Framework)
As the .NET Compact Framework developers work to add features, fix bugs, and refactor code, we often have to determine whether a given change could break existing customer code. The…