August 31, 2004 – 6:37 pm
You can download it here
Here are the release notes.
August 30, 2004 – 5:06 pm
I applaud Microsoft for providing a robust SDK for Exchange. However, the examples and documenation around the WebDAV interface leave much to be desired. First of all, how about a real schema documentation set? Second, we need more examples, like how to manage distribution lists and other basic Exchange functionality.
August 27, 2004 – 8:33 pm
My posse and I were thinking about going to a Scrum development course.
I first heard about Scrum from a client we had that was undergoing lots of change: close to 100% development staff turnover, consultants in and out, and management confused on how to approach a major development effort. It turned out that they [...]
August 27, 2004 – 7:33 pm
I was reading a post from Ryan Farley about Sql Server 2005.
All I can say is wow. The features I am really excited about are:
.NET Framework Hosting: With SQL Server 2005 developers will be able to create database objects using familiar languages such as Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. Developers [...]
August 18, 2004 – 3:49 pm
Yipee! I know this is old news but after using a variety of techniques to work around the absence of nullable types in C# 1.0, this needs to be promoted heavily.
You can learn about in in the C# Language Spec
I wonder what the NullableTypes open-source project team is going to do now that Microsoft [...]
August 13, 2004 – 1:20 pm
In the lunchroom at a client, I overheard some funny “Coffee War Stories.” There were three middle-aged men, obvious corporate-ladder types. I wasn’t sure if it was just idle chit-chat or if the “warriors” really took themselves and their coffee adventures seriously.
“One time, we had this coffee pot and Wilkinshire (you know the tall guy [...]
August 11, 2004 – 8:07 pm
I think I found the craziest .NET bug yet. This one boggles the mind in every sense of the word “boggle.”
Basically, if you try to run a series of HttpWebRequest’s from class and you set the ContentType after the RequestStream is written to, the code will work exactly ONCE.
Yes, thats right. The [...]
The following story is probably typical across many organizations, but it doesn’t make it right. It begs the question, why do so few technology decision makers follow Agile practices?
Imagine a manager thattakes the approach of having developers report back the minutest of detail regarding the solutions they are developing, to the point where barely any [...]
