Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
In the PDC, many people are so impressed about what Microsoft Max can do. However, Microsoft Max can not be installed on Windows Vista if you use that address they give out on PDC: http://www.microsoft.com/max
But the demo was run on a Vista machine! There must be some way right? Yes.
Use an XP machine or VM, [...]
Windows |
Friday, August 12th, 2005
I got a spare machine recently, so I tried to install Longhorn beta 1 (now called Windows Vista). Same as old beta versions of Windows, installation is painfully slow. It’s a Dell GX280 with 3GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, but I only partition 10GB hard drive for it. Vista took a whooping 7 something GB [...]
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Friday, April 8th, 2005
I learned a new point of view that Avalon is a “form-based” kind of UI. Currently the UI that we have consists a frame window which takes care of most displaying job, and a bunch of dialog boxes which take care of most jobs which need user interactions. A “form-based” kind of UI means shifting [...]
C++/C#, Windows |
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
I’ve installed another VM for VS2005 Feb CTP and WinFX March CTP. It’s time to try-out the new Avalon and Indigo stuff, which is supposed to appear in Windows Longhorn in 2006. In the mean time Microsoft delayed the shipment of SQL2005 and VS2005 to “by the end of 2005″, so there’s still great chance [...]
Reviews & Comments, Windows |
Sunday, March 13th, 2005
Recently I’ve got the Feb CTP version of VS 2005, which called itself a “Beta 2″. The Feb CTP version does not support my favorite PREfast, so I didn’t play with its C++ very much. Let’s talk about the Windows Form in C#.
The weakest link for .Net 1.x is its UI support, no kidding. Microsoft [...]
C++/C#, Reviews & Comments, Windows |
Monday, October 4th, 2004
If you try to find the best books talking about ASP.NET on Amazon.com, the first pair you will get is “ASP.NET Unleashed” and “Essential ASP.NET”. I choose the latter because the author’s name is very inspiring
Essential ASP.NET with Examples in C#, Fritz Onion, Addison-Wesley 2003
The book is designed for experienced .NET and C# [...]
Reviews & Comments, Windows |