Windows Vista

Vista gone RTM today!

Peter Himschoot — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:46:00 GMT

Wohoo! Vista has gone RTM today.

Learn all about developing for UAC in Vista

Peter Himschoot — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:27:00 GMT

Microsoft has this up for a couple of weeks, but I thought you might find it interesting.

"The Windows Vista Developer Story includes content for developers, and other technology experts and managers, interested in an in-depth exploration of some of the new and extended features in Windows Vista. It is released to the Windows Vista Developer Center in the form of brief articles, published approximately once every two weeks. Those articles are only a summary of the Windows Help file, which can be downloaded here. "

UAC seems to be very popular by the way, since Bart has a nice post on developing .NET apps for UAC, updating my old post on the same subject.

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Windows Vista RC2 is here! Installing the SDK

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:41:00 GMT

Vista RC2 is probably the last public drop of Vista before it goes RTM. This build contains updated drivers, and yes, finally my Tecra M4 plays video's without problems (no hickups, etc...). Now to the interesting problem: installing the SDK and VS integration...

Since there is no official SDK available for RC2 (yet), I've tried installing the Sep 2006 SDK, and I must say, works like a charm! Visual Studio integration too. Although I might be a little too early, there is a lot to test :)

Next on my list is intalling Camtasia and recording a session on WPF, which I want to make public.

.NET 3.0 training today

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:29:00 GMT

Today I gave a training to 13 people about .NET 3.0. I recycled yesterday's session on WPF (there was only one person who already saw it yesterday - who got to do same extra labs) then went on with WCF and WF.

However, can you imagine training people in .NET 3.0 in a single day? I mean, it's very hard to give an overview of most of .NET 3.0's features in a single day...

Vista RC1 is here !!!

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:46:00 GMT

Yesterday I downloaded Vista RC1 and installed it today. Installation was a piece of cake, my NVidia driver was installed directly (instant glass support). For the moment everything looks OK.

On MSDN the RC bits for .NET framework 3.0 are also available.

Win a Dell XPS M1710 laptop!

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:10:00 GMT

Michael Swanson announced the WPF/XAML Conversion Tool Contest.

"Announcing...the official start of the WPF Conversion Contest, a contest that challenges you to build a freely-available tool that converts from an existing 2D or 3D graphics format to WPF/XAML. You'll have until Friday, October 27th, 2006 to build and submit your application for consideration. Each of three winners will receive a decked-out Dell XPS M1710 laptop. Suh-wheeeeet!"

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Microsoft reconfirms launch date for Vista (November 2006!)

Peter Himschoot — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:24:00 GMT

Quote from Engadget:

"Aw, shucks guys, we were just foolin' around." After years of successive Vista delays, and keeping the computer world on edge for the past few months about even further delays, Microsoft is once again settling into their January launch window for Vista's consumer launch, with OEMs supposed to receive the OS in November. Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) should be out early September, though the word on the street is that Microsoft isn't planning on finalizing Vista until October sometime, making RC1 a bit of a misnomer. What RC1 should be is light years ahead of Vista Beta 2, and it sure better be if Microsoft isn't kidding this time about a January launch."

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Amazing XAML article

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:34:00 GMT

Wohooo, my article on XAML and its extensibility has been published on the Belgian MSDN site.

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/himschoot/amazingxaml.mspx

Actually, I've already made a couple of improvements to the article (thanks to suggestions from several kind people like Rob Relyea and Tim Sneath). This update should get published on MSDN Corp...

Let me know what you think!

Workflow Foundation Screencasts

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:33:00 GMT

Mike Taulty, MDE from the UK, has posted a series of 24 screencasts on Workflow Foundation.

Check these out!

Upcoming Great Belgian Events

Peter Himschoot — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:28:00 GMT

On Friday 8/9/2006 :

Steven Wilssens will give a presentation on the Visual Studio 2005 Team System. During the second VISUG event on Visual Studio 2005 Team System, community members get a new opportunity to receive deep dive information on Visual Studio Team System 2005. Steven will demonstrate the capabilities Visual Studio Team System 2005 in a way only user group can: not in theory but by live examples.

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And I'll be doing, toghether with Ingo Rammer, a whole day on the .NET framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFx, before that known as Avalon and Indigo).

Special about this event is that you (yes you) can vote on the session contents!

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