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Visual Basic to C# tricks, #Develop (SharpDevelop) |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 07:55:30 UTC (9064 reads)
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 It is surprising how close together VB.NET and C#.NET are as
programming languages. Each uses the Microsoft .NET Framework. The classes are
addressed identically with intellisense working on both. The most obvious differences are the way code
blocks are broken, as C# is a curly brace language.
In an earlier Group29.com Forum Post, SharpDevelop (#develop) - .NET GUI IDE FREE!, there are notes about a free tool called SharpDevelop.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio 2 |
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Posted by BB on Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 11:39:24 UTC (5741 reads)
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This is part 2 of 2 of Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 - "Goliath at the speed of David". This part includes the breakout session and some of the other Microsoft topics including ForeFront, Expression, Silverlight 2, and the different packages for Windows Server 2008.
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Goliath at the speed of David - Microsoft Launch 2008: Servers + Visual Studio |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 @ 13:56:42 UTC (4079 reads)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
On April Fools day 2008, I attended the traveling launch show for Microsoft Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. I already watched the online sessions in the virtual launch at the heroshappenhere.com site, so I had some insight as to what to expect. This show had an improvement over the previous Visual Studio and Windows releases at the Minneapolis Convention center. This time the vendor display was off the main level and moved down to Hall A in the lower level. This kept it much more low key and less like a circus.
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Some reasons we gave up Lotus Notes in favor of Outlook |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 09:44:43 UTC (2814 reads)
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One our very large (Fortune 500) customers just transitioned to Outlook 2003 from Lotus Notes 6.5 as an e-mail calendaring application. This is a significant development, since Outlook/Exchange is not really a groupware collaboration tool like Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes is a database tool that has advanced e-mail functionality. But, because of acquisitions, the corporation has discovered that as an e-mail and calendar tool, Outlook beats Lotus Notes. The company will still have both because there are a number of Lotus Notes databases that will never go away.
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IBM Super clicking keyboard model M |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, March 01, 2007 @ 17:08:53 UTC (7746 reads)
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Warning: Geekfest alert!
You may or may not recognize this, but if you worked on an IBM PS/2 or 5250 terminal in the early 90's, it came with a very heavy duty keyboard called the "model M". It was distinguished by a very positive response and loud click. The keyboard uses "buckling spring (BS) technology " to give that distinct feel and sound.
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YouTube phenomenon and the YouTube Revenue Model |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, July 01, 2006 @ 07:45:27 UTC (9271 reads)
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| I became aware of YouTube after receiving a link to a video of the 2006 NCAA Basketball Gonzaga / UCLA final seconds taken by a band member. YouTube is hosting these videos at no cost for members, sort of like Flikr for file sharing. YouTube is currently trying to do the same thing that iFilm did, get bought out in a venture capital deal. YouTube has something going for it right now, it is hosting video that may be copyrighted. But it is not aggressively removing those materials. So there are a lot of cool things to be seen.
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SQL Server 2005 - Visual Studio 2005 - BizTalk Server 2006 Launch Part V |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 @ 14:05:38 UTC (3285 reads)
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Here is the fifth, and final, part in a series from my notes taken at the Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005/BizTalk 2006 launch. BizTalk
BizTalk 2006 was invited to the November 2005 launch party, but the actual release will be some time in 1st quarter 2006. Microsoft BizTalk Server is a Business Process Management Server by Microsoft that allows software applications to communicate for Enterprise application integration. BizTalk allows businesses to visually model their internal, external and inter-business processes. Try to think of BizTalk as plumbing. This plumbing carries text between participants. This text is actually XML (or 'eXtensible Markup Language'). The participants could be companies, components, applications, parts of an operating system or just about anything which needs access to data. Just as plumbing has an entry and exit point into buildings or containers.
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SQL Server 2005 - Visual Studio 2005 - BizTalk Server 2006 Launch Part IV |
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Posted by BB on Friday, January 13, 2006 @ 11:48:29 UTC (3159 reads)
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Here is the fourth part in a series from my notes taken at the Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005/BizTalk 2006 launch.
This covers one of the breakout sessions titled Visual Studio Developer Tools. It was presented by Mike Benkovich. Mike had hosted the Introduction to Web development with Visual Studio 2005 that I attended in Eden Prairie in July 2005.
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SQL Server 2005 - Visual Studio 2005 - BizTalk Server 2006 Launch Part III |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 @ 09:22:39 UTC (3002 reads)
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Here is some information from the first breakout session at the SQL Server 2005 Visual Studio 2005 BizTalk Server 2006 Launch event. It was titled Managing Software Lifecycle with the Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Jacquelyn Schmidt, a Microsoft .NET application architect gave the presentation. Jacquelyn runs the Twin Cities Architects Council.
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ASP.NET 2.0 - Introduction to Web Development with Visual Studio 2005 |
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Posted by BB on Friday, September 23, 2005 @ 09:52:37 UTC (5394 reads)
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In July, I was able to see the Visual Studio Team System 2005 features at an all day introduction class.
Here is a link to that article.Yesterday I attended a seminar introducing web application programming for ASP.NET 2.0. The development tool was Visual Studio 2005. We used the Team system version, but did not cover Team System specific features. The development tool has tools that allow access to IIS and SQL Server directly without having to use their MMC plugins. Here is what I saw that has made me excited for the new release.
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AJAX vs. CORBA? Delivering info to your browser |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 @ 13:48:34 UTC (6550 reads)
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AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML for web development
On the latest version of Microsoft's Technology Incubation Page They advertise that they are looking for AJAX Developers. It stands to reason because two of the most interesting web applications today are Google GMAIL and Google Maps which use AJAX programming methods. The Google Map page is an interesting example of an AJAX application. You can drag the map and new pictures fill in, but your never see the browser making the requests.
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Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System |
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Posted by BB on Friday, July 29, 2005 @ 15:02:58 UTC (3286 reads)
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| In the world of software development, the Microsoft Visual Studio tools have always been seen as market leaders or strong competitors at the very least. When Microsoft applies itself diligently to developing a system, the result is often a crushing blow to many other hyped technologies. (Not to talk like I have a stomach full of the Kool-Aid, but working with these technologies certainly pays the bills.)
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Microsoft Minneapolis Partner Conference 2005 Summary Notes |
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Posted by BB on Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 14:09:48 UTC (2306 reads)
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| Here are some notes from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center over the weekend of July 9-11, 2005 (see http://www.microsoft.com/partner/events/wwpartnerconference/).
The conference started on Thursday and went through Sunday afternoon.
Needless to say there was a very healthy dose of propaganda from
Microsoft. Overall it was a good conference as things are always
changing with Microsoft. Steve Balmer's presentation alone was worth the
price of admission. The conference had about 10,000 people in attendance
(6,500 partners and 3,500 Microsoft employees). Over half the
partners were from outside the United States. Anyway, here are a few
of the conference highlights:
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Ultra-portable/Handtop PCs hitting the marketplace |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, March 31, 2005 @ 18:23:54 UTC (2439 reads)
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A new class of PCs are finally becoming available to the general public. The have been anticipated so long, they have been dismissed as vaporware. They are small form factor PCs, basically 5”x 5” x 1” and weighing less than 1 pound. They are full blown Personal computers, with 1Ghz processors , 800x600 screens, Windows XP operating systems (not Windows CE), 10-30GB hard drives, USB, sound and network capabilities.
They are bigger than a HPC, PDA, or hiptop, but smaller than either a laptop, or tablet PC.
This class of pc are so new, they have not settled on a common name.
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