(October 27, 2003) – As I walked out of the opening keynote (run by Bill
Gates and Jim Allchin) at PDC 2003 Monday, it occurred to me that it was one
of the best keynotes I have seen in years. Trust me, I have been to 10+ years
of these things. I am usually disappointed by opening keynotes, and I believe
Bill Gates is as sick of his “Digital Decade” speech as I am. But he had
all-new content for the PDC, and Longhorn in its infant stage, simply put,
looks awesome. I have been playing with the Longhorn bits, but I have not
seen compelling demos done against the bits until now, and I was duly
impressed. Longhorn, the next major release of Windows, will be the biggest
release since Windows 95, according to Gates. That is quite a bold statement
because, in my opinion, Windo... (more)
In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual
Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem
was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. So, I had to
quickly get smart on smart client applications. Before I go through the
attributes of what a smart client is, let me tell you that back then no one
could really ag... (more)
This article covers building .NET applications in Whidbey and manifesting
them in Word and Excel documents. This is accomplished with Visual Studio
2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005).
If you're like many developers, you wonder why you'd build a .NET application
to manifest its user interface in a Microsoft Office application like Excel
or Word.
I was the same way when... (more)
Paul Flessner, Sr. VP, Server Applications, gave his keynote entitled
“Getting Ready for Connected Systems” at Tech·Ed 2005 in
Orlando, FL today. Embodied in the keynote were a number of new product
announcements and a handful of powerful and entertaining demos.
The huge announcement of the day was that SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio
2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 will launch th... (more)
In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual
Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem
was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. I had to quickly
get smart on smart client applications. Before I go through the attributes of
what a smart client is, let me tell you that back then no one could really
agree ... (more)
Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy, a software and network engineering firm and a Microsoft Partner focused on solutions built in .NET. He has worked on and with product teams at Microsoft for many years, has coauthored several books, and is a frequent conference speaker.
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