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September 30, 2006
Microsoft pops out a number of interesting downloads this week.
Sample Code Generator 1.4.2.1 - What a terrible name for something that "takes an XSD schema as input and generates sample code showing how to mark up C# and VB.Net classes so that when serialized with the XML serializer, the resulting XML will be valid according to the original schema."
DHTML Editing Control for Applications Redistributable Package - This isn't actually interesting, except that the notes seem to indicate that Access 2003 is at least partially incompatible with Vista.
POS for .NET 1.1 SDK - Need to talk to a bar code scanner, magnetics card reader, or reciept printer?
Microsoft Standard User Analyzer - Nifty. Built on top of the Microsoft Application Verifier, this utility will let you launch an application and analyze it as it runs to see if it would run as a standard user. I tried it on a .NET app of mine, and it spit out all kinds of indications that the app won't run as a standard user, but the errors appear to be just stuff that the .NET framework is doing in the background. Not sure how useful this would be for managed apps. Seriously, what am I supposed to do about this?
CreateFileMappingW: Section (Global\netfxcustomperfcounters.1.0.net clr networking) is denied '' access with error 0x5.
Posted on September 30, 2006 at 09:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Vista's glass won't hold Java
If you have sufficient hardware, Vista will render the UI using a feature that Microsoft referrs to as "glass" where portions of the windows are semi-transparent.
Microsoft Watch is reporting that if you use applications that fire up the Java VM it turns glass off, system-wide, until you shut down the app.
Posted on September 30, 2006 at 09:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
September 28, 2006
Which Microsoft Products Are/Aren't Supported on Vista
Petitions are all the rage. Maybe we should start a petition to have Microsoft publish a comprehensive list of what products will and won't be supported on Vista.
Just a few that I've come across:
Product | Supported? |
Visual Studio 2005 | Supported |
Visual Studio 2005 SP 1 | Not currently supported. |
Visual Studio 2003 | Not supported |
Visual Studio .NET (2002) | Not supported |
Visual Studio 6 | Supported |
Visual Studio 6 SP 6 | Maybe supported? |
XNA | Not supported. Will be when Vista goes RTM. |
SQL Server 2005 (Everything but Enterprise Edition) | Sort of supported (Installs, but complains about needing SP2, which doesn't exist yet.) |
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition | Not supported |
SQL Server 2000 | Not supported |
Access 2003 | Mostly? |
Virtual PC 2004 | Not supported |
Ok, I'm not going to count on Microsoft providing a comprehensive list, so if you know of other products that are/aren't supported then post them as comments, and I'll update this list.
Updated 2006-09-30: Access 2003 may not be fully supported on Vista.
Updated 2006-10-20: Added more details about SQL Server running on Vista.
Updated 2006-11-07: Added information about Virtual PC 2004.
Posted on September 28, 2006 at 11:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Info on keeping IIS up and running
Want to maintain Web site uptime even if hardware fails? The IIS blog points to how Microsoft does it.
Posted on September 28, 2006 at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
PAG Explorer
First, who writes ScottGu's blog for him? It's just hard to believe that someone at his level has the time to write this amount of blog content with the frequency that he does.
Second, he points to something that looks pretty cool. An explorer that lets you drill through a database of best practice recommendations.
Posted on September 28, 2006 at 11:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
September 27, 2006
Want to develop for the .NET Micro Framework?
Microsoft has released a Beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework.
I guess the .NET Subcompact Framework just didn't have the right ring to it.
Posted on September 27, 2006 at 07:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Copy Constructor vs. Clone
If you're interested in the merits of copy constructors vs. clone methods (and ICloneable), there's a debate going on over in the MSDN Wiki.
Posted on September 27, 2006 at 07:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
A nano-second is still a foot
Larry O'Brien points out that while time may be money, it's also distance, and chip makers have to take that into account these days.
Posted on September 27, 2006 at 06:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (Beta)
Microsoft has just released the beta for VS 2005 SP1. While I'm salivating over the option of installing an SP for VS 2005, hopeful that it will fix the many bugs that I experience, I just can't recommend installing a Beta service pack. But, I hope someone does, because if it has bugs, I want them fixed, and if it's solid, I want it to ship.
Posted on September 27, 2006 at 08:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
September 25, 2006
Genetic Algorithms in the Linux Kernal
The idea is to have the kernal figure out how to self-tune.
Posted on September 25, 2006 at 12:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)