Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - Posts

New XP Theme...

I was reading some blogs about TechEd Europe when, during my surfing, I've see this news (that has nothing to see with TechEd but it's really interesting)...

Accordingly to Winbeta, seems that someone has taken out from Windows XP MCE (Media Centre Edition) 2005 new Royale theme (really cool) and it's now available to install on XP and Windows 2003 machines. I've tryed it with my XP Pro and works really good... I love it! (this is my default theme now)

You can download it from here. Recommended to try... I think you'll like it!

 

Visual Studio 2005 new Betas...

Wonderful... the first Beta of Visual Studio 2005 is out and ready to download...

In addition, the new Visual Studio 2005 Express Products are also now available to download. The available products are::

  • Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
  • Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
  • Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
  • Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
  • Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
  • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Great idea this Express Family... it's a lightweight set of tools for developers that must be seriously evaluated.

 

Little note on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition:

  • Support for XCopy style deployment
  • No workload governor
  • Support for databases up to 4Gb in size
  • Support for up to 50 instances
  • Only supports 1 processor
  • Only supports 512 Mb of RAM  (ERROR: Maximum 1 GB addressable RAM, not 512... sorry!)

.NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package Beta 1

Yes, it's out today...

The Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 beta Redistributable Package is the most recent update to the Microsoft .NET Framework and includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework.

I want it...

Wonderful... New Apple 30" Display (2560x1600 pixel resolution)...

Will come the day where could I have one of this?