December 2005 - Posts
While looking at the Composite Application Block I stumbled upon the new PropertyGrid control in Visual Studio 2005. A quick google brought me to a very good overview article on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/usingpropgrid.asp
This is definitely a control I'll be using in my next winforms App!
It works simple and yet offers advanced capabilities to support your own object Types and capabilities.
After years of working with the structured storage file format, Microsoft leaves this path to save Office documents in XML.
The next generation of Office, will work nativly with XML File Formats which will definitely improve the integration of Office documents in other environments.
Check out an example of Beta 1 .
- Erik
Hi
As I passed my examinations for my first year of Karata Instructor, I gave myself a small gift. Well small, erh... It's a brand new Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC.
Last night friends of ours came by to discuss their new plans for a house they're building. After some scratches on some paper, I started up the Tablet PC. Soon everyone wanted to draw on the Tablet's surface.
How good is your dev team?
Just answer these 12 simple questions from the Joel Test. For every Yes, you get one point. If you have less than 10 points, you should start thinking about improvements...
- Erik
Hi,
Lately I've heard more and more about Atlas, the Microsoft implementation of Ajax. I tested the Hands On Labs from Microsoft to give it a go. After finishing these labs, I had mixed feelings. First I was very pleased by the end result, a browser app that doesn't flicker. However, I found that I still needed to do a lot of plumbing, it felt like taking a step back when one is used to work with efficient environments like ASP.NET in VS2005.
Nevertheless, the technology is promising and for sure further automation will pop up in the future, to reduce hand coding.
Today Atlas is not integrated into Visual Studio 2005 by default, you should download the Atlas Blank Project VSI to get started. Note that there's also a sample kit that builds up a Wiki.
- Erik