I received an email today proclaiming that the entire www.microsoft.com site is running live on ASP.NET 2.0. Microsoft.com is the #4-ranked site on the internet in traffic and when they finally flipped the switch to 2.0, there wasn't as much as a hiccup. Awesome, glad to see ASP.NET 2.0 is almost he…
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Amar Gandhi gave a session on the RSS Platform at PDC, which unfortunately I was only able to catch the first 25 minutes or so before being called off for event duty. But I was able to see the interfaces exposed from the RSS API. Blissfully simple as the protocol calls for and it was such an interes…
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The great hurricane that was PDC is now over. The calm has set after the storm and developers have run home to play with their juicy betas, CTPs and MS and other business cards.I personally had a great time. We launched the MicrosoftGadgets site; we revealed the short 9 guys and 9 guy bean bags and …
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Tim Sneath's MSDN article entitled "A Guided Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation" went live this week. Earlier when I had reviewed the article I was happy to see the 9 Guy had made it in as Figure 4 to represent 3D graphics.I had made the 9 guy model a little while back with ZAM3D by E…
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When I first saw "Avalon" back in 2003, I was stunned (Vector Graphics, Hardware Acceleration, Rich layout and Controls, etc...). But Avalon is a very rich client and I've always been a web-based developer at heart, so once I saw the short demo of WPF/E yesterday I flipped out again. WPF/E…
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So its really cool that every attendee now has their own personal little foam Channel 9 guy. But that's nothing compared to the real thing. We let the 9 guy out of the bag and talked to Attendees about heading to the live .Net Rocks show tonight.I'm not sure how many people we got to go to the show…
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Yes, the week has finally come, PDC is here. I got in last night and the fun had already begun. A few of us met up with some Niners and other 'Softies at the Westin, pictures here (no I was not wasted, that was a mock angry fce while waiting for my food).This is my first PDC as a staff member so its…
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