Microsoft has released Avalon and Indigo to MSDN subscribers. It’s part of the March 2005 CTP. You can find more details on the Longhorn Developer Center on MSDN. The big news is that both will work on Windows XP/2003, so you don’t have to use Longhorn.
No. I should. Perhaps I should buy Joel’s latest book and read it.
Most of the time when developping I can remember what I was working on, or what bugs bugged me. But sometimes solving one bug takes a lot of time, or there’s a weekend, or something else that takes the attention from developping, I just forget about the smaller bugs. Tracking them in a database is wise.
Does anybody have suggestions? Preferably ones that are free? I’ve looked at Mantis in the past, but never got so far to actually using it. Open Source is not mandatory, but a pre. Other than that, it should run on Windows XP + Apache2.
In case you’ve missed it, FireFox 1.0.1 is out. Basically it’s just a security update, but we like security, don’t we?
Not all languages are available yet, but English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and some others will serve quite an audience already I guess.
If you need to learn something about Visual Studio, or to be specific Visual Basic, then have a look at this tutorial. It shows you what you need to know, in a very humorous way. Even if you already know VB, it’s still worth a read.
Then Microsoft has just the right FREE trainingkit for you. That’s right. You can download an ISO image here, for nothing, and it contains a complete training in ASP.NET 2.0 by using Visual C# 2005. The complete course is also available as PDF on the CD.
Oracle released an add-in for Microsoft Excel, that enables end users to display and navigate Oracle OLAP data from within Excel, and treat it just like other Excel data. Thanks for noticing, Amis. Let’s see if we can use it to replace Discoverer…
Bart has a very interesting article about BITS, the download-manager/scheduler behind the infamous Windows Update technology. Following his instructions, you can use BITS as a free downloadmanager. Let’s see if somebody can come up with a nice GUI, instead of having to use the commandline utility “bitsadmin”.
Sorry I missed this yesterday, but Microsoft released November 2004 CTP of Avalon, Longhorn’s “presentation” system, to the public. More info on this page. Before you download the 260MByte file, you can read more about Avalon on this page, where you can read you will need to have the .NET Framework 2.0 beta installed to be able to run Avalon.
Don’t forget: as of January 1st, 2005, Microsoft will no longer support Windows NT 4.0. No more pay-per-incident, Premier or online support. NOTHING. See this page.
Perhaps I missed the announcement, but the DirectX 9 SDK is updated and released. Find all relevant links on this page.