By: Bill Wagner I spent all day yesterday working with VS2010 RC. (MSDN Subscribers could download late on Monday. It becomes public today). First impression: It is much faster, and more stable than the beta 2 build. The reason for the extra public build and t…
Read more >> VS2010 RC: Much Faster than Beta 2
By: Bill Wagner I use Live Writer to create weblog posts. It’s a great way to compose thoughts that might not be ready for prime time, and then post them once I’ve completed and reviewed them. This post from On10, shows how you can use LiveMesh to sync your…
Read more >> Yet another cool use case for Live Mesh
By: Bill Wagner "Google Abandons Standards, forks Open ID" Excerpt: Basically, Google has rewritten OpenID. Not only is it not exactly the same as the current OpenID protocol, it’s so different that existing OpenID relying parties won’t be able to…
Read more >> It’s a good thing they ‘do no evil’, or this would bother me
By: Bill Wagner The I'm a PC ads are great. I like the tone, the content, and the message: PCs create are world without walls, where communication is world wide, different industries, hobbies, goals, and types of hardware are supported. It's great…
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By: Bill Wagner Or the luster is already gone. I used Chrome for some of my web browsing for about one day. It works alright, but it's clearly an early release. Technically, Chrome can and will compete with Firefox 3 and IE 8. (I'm running a beta o…
Read more >> My 24 hours with Chrome
By: Bill Wagner A recent experience highlights how little anyone in any business thinks about software, especially web sites. I was running out of checks in the home checking account. The handy-dandy reminder check came up. Normally, I would take that to the local bra…
Read more >> Web site rule number one: Define your audience
By: Bill Wagner Earlier this week, Open XML won ISO approval. By any objective measure, it won handily. 86% of the participants voted for the standard. Does that mean that 16% of the voting countries are run by IBM officials? One could make the case that i…
Read more >> There is a reason I still get a big blue rash
By: Bill Wagner We interrupt this blog for an important public service announcement. Microsoft has been telling folks that the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images are going to expire on November 1, 2007. The VS 2008 install doesn't expire, but the base OS does. T…
Read more >> VS 2008 VPC images expiring
By: Bill Wagner Sara Ford has been posting tips about the VS 2005 editor. Today's tip(http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/28/did-you-know-how-not-to-accidentally-copy-a-blank-line.aspx) shows a nifty little setting that disables Copy and Cut …
Read more >> Sara Ford saves me time again
By: Bill Wagner The best tool (IMHO) for delivering database installationsI received this question via email recently:"I have developed an application using VB.net and SQL.I have to create the setup file so that I can install this application on another system&nb…
Read more >> Question and recommendation on installation packages
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