Yesterday I was excited when I could download the Win 7 dev kit, but that turned to disappointment when I realised that I could only run the application that I deployed and not try out the other stuff on the phone.
Today, thanks to Dan Ardelean I was able to unlock the Windows 7 Phone emulator. So here I was poking around only to be pleasantly surprised to see the SharePoint client built in to the phone.
Here are the first screenshots you’ll see of the Win7Phone SharePoint client.
Two words: Don’t install
This is what nVidia says and you typically get it through Windows Update. I suffered with the title bar going missing and ugly black blocks on my desktop for a week before I figured that the nVidia beta drivers were to blame. It looks like others too are having the same problem.
It appears on Windows Update as: NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS (Prerelease – WDDM 1.1) Optional
If you already installed it you can either Rollback the Update:
- Start-> type in ‘Device Manager’ and open it
- Expand the Display adapters node
- Double-click the NVIDIA node
- On the Driver tab click ‘Roll Back Driver’
Or you could uninstall the driver
- Start –> type in ‘Programs’ and launch ‘Add or remove programs’
- In the search box (top right) type in ‘nvidia’
- Right-click and uninstall the ‘NVIDIA Drivers’
After one (sometimes two) re-boots you should be all set.
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7.
Both setups ran fine without a hitch although the upgrade route took a couple of extra hours with all the migrating of application and user settings.
The good news is that I’ve been using both for over a week without any major hitches. The only problems I’ve had so far are to do with the 64-bit install. The first one being Windows Live Mesh which stays forever at the ‘Live mesh is starting’ step (there doesn’t seem to be any kind of fix out for this) and Google Chrome which flat out doesn’t work unless you add a flag to it’s startup. This seems to work for most cases except for a few place where it fails like the new Gmail Offline access using Gears.
For the love of god why is the language filter on MSDN a list of checkboxes that default to ALL languages.
You'd expect the guys at MSDN to have figured out how cookies work and remember the language you selected. But no, that would take the fun out of switching off each language one by one for each and every page.
With SQL Server Data Services, it looks like Microsoft is finally entering the foray that Amazon's S3 service provided. As a Microsoft developer the best part is the integration with the tools and technologies that we use, especially LINQ. If you don't know what S3 is, it's basically a storage in the cloud thats hosted by Amazon.
One of the projects that I worked in my earlier job needed scalability and Amazon's S3 and EC2 services were something that I studied extensively. I'm looking forward to Microsoft releasing an EC2 type of service where .NET code can be hosted in the cloud. This will make it extremely cost effective to build applicatios where you need access to a lot of processing power and storage space but for a limited period at a time.
On the next iteration of my current we’ll be using Visual Studio 2008 and targeting .NET 3.5.
As usual I jumped the gun and installed it before the rest of the team, so I had to keep VS 2005 running at the same time. Everything was hunky dory until I installed the TFS 2008 client. This somehow caused the unit test projects to be disconnected from the TFS server. You could check out and check in stuff from the Team Explorer but the projects were showing up as disconnected from the Solution Explorer.
To get out of this mess I had to uninstall both 2005 and 2008 Team Explorer and then reinstall Team Explorer 2005.
I didn’t want to cloud the blogosphere with yet another post on Silverlight, but this post on TechCrunch is one of the better written article on Silverlight and covers all the aspects well.
Microsoft just announced the acquisition of devbiz solutions, the guys who make TeamPlain Web Access.
The best part is that it’s free now. If you’ve been holding off on TFS due to its lack of a web interface, there’s no reason to wait anymore.
I just got back from the session by Don and ChrisAn and they did ‘partially’ talk about the super secret project they’ve been working on.
I’ve captured the whole session on video and will have them up once I get it cleared.
The MVP Summit has so far been ‘wicked’. I’ve met some of the biggest legends who have created the world that I live in and pays for me. BillG started off with his keynote, followed by Soma and then Anders took us through all the crazy stuff in C# 3.0 with Don and ChrisAn finishing off what has been a great day.
Tomorrow, I can’t wait to meet ScottGu!
Will Don and ChrisAn talk about this? ChrisAn was in the WPF team…
