August 2004 - Mike Taulty's Blog

iMac G5

The iMac G5 looks very cool to me. I'm seriously thinking of buying one of these things when they're shippable (and possibly after some real hands-on reviews) just so that I can see "how the other half lives". I've never owned a Mac and I've never done dev...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2004 3:10 PM by mtaulty

ASP.NET 2.0

I wrote a bit of an article about ASP.NET 2.0 and thought I'd share it here. It's a little more formal than what I normally post up here but I thought it was worth sharing. As an aside, I spent a lot of last week watching Jeff Prosise talk about ASP.NET 2.0...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2004 2:52 PM by mtaulty

.NET Framework Code Coverage Edition Beta 1

This was a new one to me. MSDN has a download for the .NET Framework Code Coverage Edition beta. From the accompanying document; To help achieve this, the .NET Framework Code Coverage Edition is a new mechanism that enables you to give Microsoft direct feedback...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2004 10:49 PM by mtaulty

Dual-core chips with dual caches

Quick pointer to a Cnet news story about AMD and Intel processor strategies for their dual-core offerings next year. The is here .

Published Thu, Aug 26 2004 10:31 PM by mtaulty

Download films on demand?

An interesting story over here on the plans that NetFlix has to sell films on the web for download potentially using "peer-to-peer" forwarding technology not unlike what BitTorrent does. Sounds pretty cool to me - I guess it's going to be a fiercely fought...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2004 10:28 PM by mtaulty

Summertime...

Activity here might go a little quiet for a while as I'm away for the next few weeks - back soon :-)

Published Mon, Aug 23 2004 11:12 PM by mtaulty

Early Adopter posting on VB Syntax

This posting on the Early Adopter site made me smile.

Published Fri, Aug 20 2004 1:55 AM by mtaulty

ASP.NET 2.0 Feature changes post beta 1

The ASP.NET team posted up to the ASP.NET forums yesterday around changes that will happen in between the Beta 1 code that's out there today and a second beta. The posting is here - very important that you go and take a look if you're interested in ASP.NET...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2004 1:19 AM by mtaulty

Stan Lippman on VC++ 2005 and the STL.NET

There's the first of a new series of articles about the STL.NET that's part of Visual C++ 2005 written by Stan Lippman and published here It's interesting stuff - personally I need to think a little bit more about Stan's comment on the generic collections that...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:40 PM by mtaulty

InfoPath Resources on the Office Developer Centre

A whole bunch of InfoPath 2003 Sp1 resources have gone up to the Office Developer Centre Possibly the most interesting would be the 16 hands-on labs that are here and walk you through items such as; Controls Business Logic (incl managed code) ADO.NET DataSets...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:31 PM by mtaulty

Tim Ewald on RelaxNG and Messaging

Tim Ewald's got a couple of great posts going on in his blog around the complexity of XSD and the attraction of RelaxNG as an alternative and also how he focuses on messages when thinking of web service design. Posts are here and here - you need to read the...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:27 PM by mtaulty

Fritz Onion on Asynchronous ASPX pages in VS 2005

Fritz Onion's followed up a previous post about the asynchronous page model in ASP.NET 2.0 - the post is here . There's still some debate going on around this stuff on Fritz's blog here but it looks like it's ultimately coming back to this help page which shows...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:24 PM by mtaulty

Visual C++ 2005 on DevSource

DevSource has a good article over here around what's new in Visual C++ in VS 2005. The article's short and snappy and runs through the features that are coming - some of them are already here with Beta 1 of 2005. There's also a couple of pointers across to...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:14 PM by mtaulty

Gareth on TracePoints

Gareth's got a short note on TracePoints in VS2005 - I agree that these are really cool. The link is here Don't forget of course that, in the theme of some of my recent posts, you can do this in WinDbg too :-)

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 4:05 PM by mtaulty

MSDN TV Show on WSE 2.0 Adapter for BizTalk 2004

Scott Woodgate has put together an episode of MSDN TV (i.e. the recordings that last just 10 minutes) around using the WSE 2.0 Adapter for BizTalk that lets you get WSE2.0 messaging support inside of BizTalk 2004. The link to the show is here - it's well worth...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2004 1:56 AM by mtaulty