Team System prezzies- December 23, 2004 In the spirit of the holidays (either late in the case of Hanukkah, Ramadan or Solstice or early in the case of Christmas or Kwanzaa and I have no clue what holiday Jedis celebrate around now) the Team System team have brought unto you a gift. A new Community Technology Preview. So, now you will have something to do while everyone else drinks egg nog, shreds wrapping paper and watches their new plasma TV. Enjoy TTFN - KentPS: If you're at all confused about all the builds we're throwing at...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/23/331435.aspx Still time for one more headache in 2004- December 21, 2004 I know I've promised to be good, and I've sucked the life out of any possible controversial topic off of this blog. So, to finish up the year, it's time to get myself in trouble again. The MSDN stats report came out for November, and I noticed a few tasty tidbits in there: Approximately 48% of people search when they come to the home page Top 25 MSDN Viewed Pages are approx 33% of the total traffic to MSDN From 2003 2004, Downloads, Subscription Downloads and the Visual Studio Developer...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/21/329299.aspx Internet Explorer Developer Center- December 15, 2004 And then there were 50... OK, maybe there aren't 50 Developer Centers (yet it just feels that way some days), but there is now an Internet Explorer Dev Center. With new content, even! Learn what SP2 and future advances have in store for you. It's worth saving the link, even if all you need to do is find the DHTML reference, as I seem to have to do a lot.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/15/316190.aspx YABRT: Yet Another Blog Ranking Tool- December 13, 2004 While browsing my Bloglines subscriptions, I see that there is yet another tool available for monitoring the "importance" of blogs -- PubSub. From their site: LinkRanks are a measure of how many pages link to each particular site, with more weight given to fresher links and to links from a wider variety of pages. The interesting .NET angle on all of this is that they have a C library for communicating with their service.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/12/281155.aspx ClickOnce from the RDs- December 6, 2004 Sorry, this actually went live on the 1st, but I'm a little behind. The latest article from the Microsoft Regional Directors (in this case Mauro Sant'Anna of Brazil) has been posted: Deploying Windows Forms Applications with ClickOncehttp://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/06/275774.aspx NOAA Way -- the Web Service- December 4, 2004 Looking at my news items this morning, and what do I see NOAA (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, aka, the Weather Guys) now has a Web Service available (sadly RPCEncoded) to get the weather. Details here. WSDL here. Party on your desktop.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2004/12/04/275120.aspx |