Saturday, November 20, 2004 - Posts
Are you an MSDN subscriber? This is one of the most exciting CTP released in these days... 
The first Community Technical Preview release of "Avalon" is out and ready to try!
Avalon is the new graphics display which unified documents, graphics, media and user interfaces into a single platform. Using a new vector-based compositing engine, Avalon takes full advantage of modern graphics hardware and provides the capabilities for building rich, immersive applications with 2D and 3D capabilities. Avalon also introduces XAML, a markup language that maps XML markup to objects in the .NET Framework and is built to allow designers and developers to work together in the user interface development process.
The great news is that now Avalon is not only a Longhorn feature, but it's available also for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 (this CTP works with these systems, you've only to install the .NET Framework 2.0).
The next download is scheduled...
I'm terrible sorry to talk about this argument, but I really don't understand the responses that the VB.NET Staff is giving to the community... 
Ok, now I think that eveyone know that the VB team is NOT going to be able to implement Refactoring in Visual Studio 2005. I know also that maybe the VB.NET staff is true by saying that VB.NET in Visual Studio 2005 is the best VB.NET ever, with the return of Edit and Continue features (the community request number 1), more than 500 Intellisense code snippets, My, AutoCorrect and many of other VB features.
I can understand also that implementing Refactory on VB could be a long work and a big delay on Visual Studio 2005 release date, but I'm terrible disappointed for this lack on the next VB version. Why VB must be always a step under C#? 
However, this post was only to ask a personal question: why spent so long time to implement a feature like MY?
I think I'll use it not too much often on my work and personally I don't think it could be really useful and revolutionary as someone is showing. All the things you could do in future with MY you can easily do NOW. Who has schedule the working table for the VB staff? Why the MY priority above Refactoring? Unbelievable...
We don't need toys like MY, we need working tool like Refactoring!!
The toys around Google's tools are growing... 
My last diascover is DNKA, an interesting Remote Desktop Search tool based on Google Desktop Search.
It acts as a web server (search server) by interacting as a layer between Google Desktop Search (GDS) and user and allow other users to search, view, download your files, emails, chats and web history.
Key Features- Simple to access the search (GDS) from another desktop
- Allow/Deny access from external hosts to the search server. By default (as installed) access is only granted to the local machine.
- Allow to change port number for web server
- Serve the files from a local machine
- Web interface for search server options
- Password protected access to search server options
- Runs automatically when a GDS start up
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Personal opinions about this tool: interesting only if you have a LAN with different computers or a small office and you want to easily search every computer (you can authorize only the IP addresses you want). Obviously, there are the normal security issues of every GDS installation (it index all your files and everyone is authorized to access your machine can see them).