The next version of Microsoft Windows, which was formerly known as Windows Longhorn will be arriving in the second half on 2006 under the name Windows Vista. See details hereand press pass here Personally I like the new name more, I am yet to make sense of it though……
read more...Interesting article in Computer World today, see it here Here’s the bit I find most interesting. *“Speaking with his usual gusto to a gathering of Microsoft resellers and solutions provider partners, Ballmer took direct aim at IBM in his morning keynote, identifying Big Blue as Microsoft’s Number one competitor and criticising every aspect of IBM’s three-pronged strategy to provide hardware, software and services to customers. “Does IBM have the best hardware most of the time? Ask yourself that question, I say,” Ballmer said, eliciting laughter from the audience. “Does IBM have the best software? They don’t…
read more...I finally decided to change the Look of the blog a little, this is just an initial start, if you’ve got any comments on this current change or would like to make some suggestions, drop me a comment or email! 🙂…
read more...Chris Auld announced today that he is a MSDN Regional Director. Congrats Chris, well deserved. See his post here. The ‘Red Shoe’ is getting bigger! If you’re wondering what the story is with the ‘Red Shoe’ read his blog for info 🙂…
read more...Right, so I’ve setup myself VS 2005 this week finally, while I haven’t dug hard in development yet. Here is my first error message encounter in VS 2005. Here’s how I got it, I click the help menu, then choose Search, and bingo, I get the Index Search window as well as this message. Anyone know why this occurs or how to get rid of it?…
read more...I’ve just finished updating my blog to dasblog 1.7 More posts are coming soon 🙂…
read more...For those who like to be upto date with tech news …etc like myself. I’ve come accross the VS 2005 news blog today, and decided it is worth adding to my Blogroll! 🙂 If you haven’t come accross it before… here’s the url: https://blogs.msdn.com/vs2005news/…
read more...A question came up today on the NZ.NET mailing list about using 2 web.config files for admin authentication and user authentication using one Form for both. Nic blogs about an article on how do deal with this, see his blog here…
read more...Right, so for quite a while, I had VS 2002/2003 running along with SQL 2000 on my machine. Now, I have the DVD’s for both VS .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 which leaves me one step away from upgrading my machine ( I don’t have a DVD reader yet!). I expect to go buy one very soon in order to get myself setup for the future of Development!!…
read more...So, if you happen to see this post, then the mail to blog feature is working!…
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