March 2004 - Posts

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6 is available for download from here.

Nokia 7610

This is the first lifeblog enabled phone it runs series 60 and can do videos up to 10 mins.

 

New Longhorn concept video....

Longhorn Financial Service concept video is out. Now you can download and watch three concept videos altogether about Longhorn technologies:

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Healthcare
  • Finincial Service

They are really really cool....

Nokia lifeblog

Nokia is showing his lifeblog tool on Cebit. This should be something interesting.

You can read about it on BBCi or on Guradian. Also on Christian Lindholm's blog who is the creator of this tool.  He is also trying to clear some misunderstanding around lifeblog:

1.) Q. Why a logging tool or as Nokia prefer to call it a multimedia diary? Nokia feels that blogging is a subset of your electronic life, not the whole life, hence our focus on the PC initially. The first version will not have any features enabling blogging (you can send e-mail from PC version, but I do not call that blogging).

2. Q: Why does Nokia call it Lifeblog? A: We added the 'b' in front of the 'log' as we wanted the name signal a longer term intent. Nokia mission is conncet people and that is what blogs do.

3.) Nokia Lifeblog will not be available for the Nokia 6620, but some other terminal

Russell Beattie has also some thoughts on lifeblog:

“... Just make sure there's an open API of some sort. I've been weblogging for several years now and in my time lots of fads have come and gone. But the idea is that the memes that stick and are accepted by "the community" are the ones that allow participation and expansion. APIs are especially popular (XML-RPC, Google API, Amazon API, Trackback, Technorati, Atom), but also concepts (FOAF), graphics (those little xml icons) and anything you can stick on your webpage (BlogChalking, BlogRolls, etc.). In terms of desktop clients mostly the focus has been on news aggregators, but there's a few attempts to create better ways of posting using the APIs out there. Bloggers want to play, so you've got to let them. “

Yukon, Whidbey delays

Today, several news sites reported that Microsoft had pushed release of the next versions of SQL Server (Yukon) and Visual Studio .Net (Whidbey) until next year.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Yukon or Whidbey shipped next year or even 2006, which would be considerably later than Microsoft said earlier. I've been saying for months I expected Microsoft to retrench its Longhorn strategy in early 2004, with something on the order of the 2002 shift in .Net strategy. As for Longhorn, the question now is what will Microsoft ship? How much will Windows XP's successor resemble the OS showcased last October?

from Microsoft Monitor.

Growing list of Microsoft bloggers...

more than 200 bloggers from Microsoft.
from Microsoft Watch.

Would be nice though to include the area they are blogging about next to the link. 

Where is the GAC?

It turns out that there is no single place for this... you can find the list of files like this:

  • gacutil.exe /l from command util
    lists the files registered in GAC.
  • c:\windows\assembly
    this invokes the Assembly Fusion Cache Viewer (shfusion.dll). I could really use right click enabled ngen from here...
  • Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Microsoft .NET Framework Configuration, then Assembly Cache in the tree.
  • c:\Windows\Assembly\GAC\ from command prompt only.
  • %SYSTEMROOT%\assembly\gac\
    This way you can get past the shfusion.dll. Type it in the run window and you can navigate the GAC from the Shell Explorer....