Win-FS?

What Do You Want in "Longhorn" Server? Ever wonder how to get your great idea in front of Microsoft developers? Submit your ideas for the next version of Windows Server.   Was Win-FS too ambitious? Well they said the same about putting a man on the moon...

.Net Bookclub Contest

Jeff Julian recently announced a .Net Book Club Contest.  All you need to do is fill out this survey to be eligible to win a copy of Win2K3 Server (25 CAL) or one of ten copies of  Rocky Lhotka's “Expert C# Business Objects”.

We all read .Net books, we're always looking for good books and we love to win free stuff. So I hope to see you sometime soon on The .Net Bookclub.

Tablet PC 2005

DOTNETROCKS gave away MY Tablet PC last night! I had a speech prepared and hundreds of ideas for utlizing this exciting new form of personal computing. The Dream Team and I could not get a break yesterday, saw my death notice on the web! Another Paul Mooney, born the same year as me left this world without ever owning a Tablet PC! Maybe I should approach Motion Computing or Acer about sponsoring my blog. I need to be ink enabled now! Check-out these cool new Power Toys, yes the developer community loves the Tablet PC. More and more people will be picking-up a Tablet as Microsoft releases Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, I just gotta get one!

I'm ready to be ink enablet, I got my OneNote and I'm on the InfoPath, how about YOU?

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Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7

IE Community

A site of their own, a place to call home if you're a website developer.

If you want to be more secure and keep what littly privacy you have left this is a good place to go.

Want to learn more about IE and all the things that can be done to it and with it?

More questions? Go see Sandi. Got a big problem with IE, talk to Dave he welcomes your inquries. Want to feel better, give them your feedback. Just for fun surf over to channel9 and help us build IE 7, we need your ideas!

XP2 Firewall

Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Windows XP Service Pack 2 provides Windows Firewall, an enhanced firewall that is enabled by default. This white paper describes the methods used to deploy Windows Firewall settings in a managed environment.

Download

There is so much FUD out there in the Tech Press, this White Paper should be required reading.

Who's hiring?

A survey finds Microsoft is the employer for which U.S. undergraduates would most like to work, as the company aims to increase campus hires as much as 9 percent this fiscal year.

How far will you go?

The first step: Register! It’s the best place to start.

Zoe and Gretchen from Microsoft have been making videos for channel9, nice work if you can get it...

I love bees

Well the day is upon us, do you love bees? Do you love games? How about a good story? How much do you know about GPS Coordinates? If you are at the right place at the right time you might find some answers.

UPDATE: You will need a code word.

 Axons are going hot. Codewords and status updated here.
For the calls, "Operator" and then your location's codeword seems to be the correct answer.

Phone in field reports to the ARGN Axon hotline: 866-395-3681

UPDATE: Axon.wav

 

Windows CE 5.0 Lab

Windows CE 5.0 Basic Lab
Watch this video to see a demonstration of configuring, building, downloading, and debugging the Windows CE 5.0 operating system. In this video, we show you how to add applications to a platform, modify the Windows CE registry, and how to use remote tools to examine the interaction between threads of a running application.
110K Version | 300K Version

A great How-To-Video by Mike Hall taking us on a walk-through of Windows CE 5.0 with Platform Builder.

Devscovery2

At Devscovery, our aim is to have you beg us to stop cramming information into your head. We've brought together the deepest, most experienced doers in .NET development today. Our presenters have written the books you actually turn to when dealing with your development problems. You've heard of our presenters and know their quality as writers, developers, and most importantly as presenters.

I attended the first Devscovery back in April in Washington, DC and had a great time! Now they are bring this intense learning fest to Redmond Washington. 8/31-9/2

All the Airlines are having sales and if you send me an email I'll send you a link for $100 off the already low priced three day .NET knowledge Conference!

Petzold

Next Show (We're Now Live on Friday Nights!)
The live show this week will be broadcast on Friday, August 20th at 9PM Eastern Time. The guest will be the one and only Charles Petzold.

Charles Petzold being quized by Rory and Carl? Will he have to reboot, or will he just begin to sing a song? Tune in as .Net Rocks moves to Friday nights, so the kids can stay up late to listen....

ClickOnce

Tonight there is a meeting of the NYCDOTNET UG at Microsoft's NYC office.

Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce in .NET 2.0

Brian Noyes, principal software architect, IDesign, Inc.

ClickOnce is a new deployment technology being introduced in .NET 2.0 that provides a trustworthy mechanism for deploying smart client applications over the web or a network with a single deployment to a server.

Google 0.5

Please be advised that the prospectus for the offering of Google's Class A
common stock has been amended to change the estimated offering price range
and the number of shares to be sold in the offering.  The offering price
is now expected to be between $85 and $95 per share.  As originally
planned, Google expects to sell 14,142,135 shares of Class A common stock
in the offering.  However, in view of this new price range, the selling
shareholders are reducing the shares they expect to sell to 5,462,917
shares, yielding a total offering of 19,605,052 shares.  In addition, the
selling shareholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase
up to an additional 2,940,757 shares of Class A common stock at the
initial public offering price to cover over-allotments.  YOU MAY ACCESS
THE CURRENT PROSPECTUS BY CLICKING

Open-Source Legend joins CLR Team

"Jim Hugunin has announced that he is going to join the CLR team at Microsoft, to continue his work on IronPython, and further improve the CLR's support for dynamic languages,"


Dynamic Languages and the CLR

Pocket IE CSS

Pocket Internet Explorer in Windows Mobile 2003 Supports CSS

Did you know Pocket Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 2003 supports CSS?
Pocket Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 2003 supports CSS Mobile Profile plus a few additional CSS1 and CSS2 attributes to make your mobile Web authoring easier than ever before.
Find out more.

Windows Mobile Team Blog Staying Connected 

Wicked Code

Foiling Session Hijacking Attempts
Jeff Prosise
Download the code for this article: WickedCode0408.exe (118KB)

 

XML DevCon5

Applied XML Developers Conference 5

October 20-21, 2004, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Washington (40 minutes from Portland Int'l Airport)

All 4 Previous Dev.Conferences Have Sold Out, So Register Quickly

Spirit of the Developer's Conference

The goal of the Applied XML Developer's Conference is to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we're spending time at a conference in the first place -- the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners. By doing so, we can keep the price, and your wasted time, to a minimum. In fact, if you don't go away with your head hurting from all the new ideas you've heard, we've haven't done our job!

Sender ID

 Microsoft Hosts Industry Sender ID Summit in Fight Against Spam and Phishing
As over 80 members of the E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) gather in Redmond for a summit on the Sender ID Framework, Craig Spiezle, director of industry and partner relations for Microsoft's Safety Technology and Strategy Team, and Trevor Hughes, executive director of the ESPC, discuss Sender ID and the use of authenticated e-mail solutions to combat the problems of spam, domain spoofing and phishing.

Who's going to pay for Sender ID, you and me? Maybe we should find a way for the spamers to pay! All those phishermen out there should share their catch.

DotNetRocks

Did you think you missed this weeks show? I know I did, till I checked:

The live show this week will be broadcast on Friday, August 13th at 10PM Eastern Time. The guests will be Jim Duffy and Shaun Walker of DotNetNuke fame.

Listen LIVE tonight at 10pm est.

Will Rory escape hurricane Charley?  Will Carl ever remember his passw0rd so he can update his blog? Tune in to get the story!

Mobile Games Begin

There will be more winners in Athens in the next few weeks then there will be with Google. The stock tickers will track Google’s price downward, but now we have a way to grab all the results from the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games. For those of us running around competing in the game of life at internet pace there is now mOlympics to keep up with the Games in Greece. This is aggregator Gold for the Microsoft Mobile Team, my PocketPC is ready and you might also connect with your phone.

         mOlympics

Home | Sports | Countries | Search | WAP

Google IPO - Recirculation of the Prospectus

Please be advised that Google has made material changes to the prospectus for its offering of Class A common stock. You may access the current prospectus by clicking

A registration statement relating to Google's Class A common stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. Google's Class A common stock may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of Google's Class A common stock in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. No offer to buy shares of Google's Class A common stock can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time until the notice of acceptance is sent after the effective date. Of the shares to be sold in Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock, 14,142,135 will be issued and sold by Google and 11,555,394 will be sold by the selling stockholders.

Some people are going to make BIG BUCKS in this sale, but it's not going to be me and it's not going to be you.