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PDC05 - An Introduction to MSBuild

Faisal Mohamood, a good friend, former colleague and more recently PM on the MS Build team, gave a great lunch session on the new MS Build System. It was originally scheduled for Day 1, but moved because the keynote ran so long. MS Build is the new build engine that ships with VS.NET 2005. It is based...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-08-2005
PDC Content Available Online

From the PDC weblog comes word that the PDC05 keynotes are available for streaming. Bill Gates and Jim Allchin Eric Rudder Steven Sinofsky Bob Muglia You can also read through all the breakout session presentations . Conference DVDs are being sent to all attendees this year. And good news for those who...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-07-2005
PDC05 - An Overview on Vista Graphics

A little discussion on the history of graphics on the Windows platform. One of the key goals in Vista is to take advantage of the hardware improvements and shift more processing to GPUs and so on. This is a shift from Gdi/GDI+/DirectShow to the new Direct3d and Windows Presentation Foundation. Direct3D...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-07-2005
What do you think about LINQ?

Leon points out some LINQ love . Well, the article may be great, but I'm a bit more torn on the technology itself. The computer scientist part of me finds this very cool from an implementation perspective. The combination of anonymous types, lambda expressions, method extensions and a bit of compiler...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-07-2005
Developing Rich Web Applications with Atlas

One of topics I was most excited about at PDC was Atlas , Microsoft's AJAX implementation. The ASP.NET team is positioning Atlas as not as "just another AJAX framework", but rather an end-to-end framework for developing rich UI in the web browser. It provides a lot of plumbing not just for doing things...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-23-2005
Vista on the Tablet

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have Vista up and running on the tablet. Curiously, the upgrade process failed again - it worked flawlessly when I did a fresh install. I had the same problem with Beta 1 on my desktop (from XP Home). Yet others have reported no problems doing an upgrade. Weird....

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-23-2005
Integration Baseline Architecture

I guess Faisal has either been too modest or too busy preparing for PDC05 to post this, so I've decided to post it for him. Prior to joining Microsoft full-time, Faisal was a consultant in the Patterns & Practices group. The Applied Integration Baseline Reference Implementation , one of the projects...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-06-2005
I'm going to PDC05

I'm going to PDC05 this year along with Jody . I'm flying in Mon night, which also happens to be my birthday, and will be staying at the Omni. I'm not going to make it to any of the pre-conference sessions. I'll have to look through some of the new sessions that were announced . Faisal is giving two...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-15-2005

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